英汉词典

hour 基本解释

• n. 小时；钟头；课时；…点钟
• n. (Hour)人名；(法)乌尔；(柬)胡

hour 词态变化

hour 中文词源

来自古法语hore,从日出到日落的十二分之一时间，来自拉丁语hora,小时，时间，时刻，季节，来自希腊语hora,任意限定的时间，来自PIE*yer,季节，年，词源同year,horoscope.后用于指时间单位小时。

hour 英文词源

hour

hour: [13] Greek hórā (a distant relative of English year) was originally a rather vague term, denoting ‘period of time, season’. In due course it came to be applied more specifically to ‘one twelfth of a day (from sunrise to sunset)’, but as this varied in length according to the time of the year, hórā was still far from being a precise unit of time. Not until the Middle Ages (when hórā had passed via Latin hora and Old French hore into English as hour) did the term become fixed to a period of sixty minutes. (The same sort of vague relationship between ‘time’ in general or ‘period of time’ and ‘fixed period’ is shown in Swedish timme, which is related to English time but means ‘hour’; in German stunde, which originally meant ‘period of time’, but now means ‘hour’; and indeed in English tide, which in Old English times meant ‘hour’ but now, insofar as it survives as a temporal term, denotes ‘season’ – as in Whitsuntide.) English horoscope [16] comes ultimately from Greek hōroskópos, a compound which meant literally ‘observer of time’ – that is, of the ‘time of birth’.
=> horoscope, year

hour (n.)

mid-13c., from Old French hore "one-twelfth of a day" (sunrise to sunset), from Latin hora "hour, time, season," from Greek hora "any limited time," from PIE *yor-a-, from root *yer- "year, season" (see year). Greek hora was "a season; 'the season;'" in classical times, sometimes, "a part of the day," such as morning, evening, noon, night.

The Greek astronomers apparently borrowed the notion of dividing the day into twelve parts (mentioned in Herodotus) from the Babylonians (night continued to be divided into four watches), but as the amount of daylight changed throughout the year, the hours were not fixed or of equal length. Equinoctal hours did not become established in Europe until the 4c., and as late as 16c. distinction sometimes was made between temporary (unequal) hours and sidereal (equal) ones. The h- has persisted in this word despite not being pronounced since Roman times. Replaced Old English tid, literally "time" (see tide (n.)) and stund "period of time, point of time, hour" (compare German Stunde "hour"), As a measure of distance ("the distance that can be covered in an hour") it is recorded from 1785.

hour 词组搭配

hour 英文释义

1. a period of time equal to 1/24th of a day;

"the job will take more than an hour"

2. clock time;

"the hour is getting late"

3. a special and memorable period;

"it was their finest hour"

4. distance measured by the time taken to cover it;

"we live an hour from the airport"

"its just 10 minutes away"

hour 双语例句

1. Use your lunch hour to have a nap in your chair.

利用午饭时间坐在椅子上打个盹吧。

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2. He is impatient as the first hour passes and then another.

一个小时、两个小时过去了，他不耐烦了。

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3. The appointed hour of the ceremony was drawing nearer.

既定的典礼时间就快到了。

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4. He recalled her devotion to her husband during his hour of need.

他回忆起她在丈夫困难之时的忠贞奉献。

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5. Jack took out his notes and talked for just under an hour.

杰克掏出他的笔记，讲了将近一个小时。

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hour 实用场景例句

We hope to be there within the hour (= in less than an hour) .

我们希望一小时内到达那里。

牛津词典

We're four hours ahead of New York (= referring to the time difference) .

我们比纽约早四个小时。

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Chicago is two hours away (= it takes two hours to get there) .

到芝加哥需要两小时。

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York was within an hour's drive.

开车到约克不会超过一小时。

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Top speed is 120 miles per hour .

最高时速为120英里。

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The minimum wage was set at £3.20 an hour .

最低工资定为每小时3.20英镑。

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We're paid by the hour .

我们是论小时获得报酬的。

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He'll be back in an hour .

他一小时后回来。

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I waited for an hour and then I left.

我等了一个小时，然后就走了。

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It was a three-hour exam.

那是三小时的考试。

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The interview lasted half an hour.

会见持续了半小时。

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It will take about an hour to get there.

到那里大约需要一小时。

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Teachers refused to run out of hours sports matches because they weren't being paid.

教师拒绝课余安排体育比赛，因为他们不会获得薪酬。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

He and my mom were arguing every night, hour after hour.

他和我妈妈每天晚上都吵个不停。

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Gibbs was arrested in the early hours of yesterday morning.

吉布斯于昨天凌晨被捕。

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...a neighbour's car alarm going off at all hours of the day and night.

邻居的汽车警报器没日没夜响个不停。

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She didn't want her fourteen-year-old daughter coming home at all hours of the morning.

她不希望自己14岁的女儿凌晨才回家。

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Daly kept this school open after hours so it doubled as a community center.

戴利在学生放学后继续开放学校，把它兼作社区中心。

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...a local restaurant where steel workers unwind after hours...

钢厂工人下班后去放松一下的当地餐馆

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The job was easy; the hours were good.

这份工作很轻松，工作时间也很合适。

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Getting there would take hours.

去那里要花很长时间。

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...the hour of his execution...

处决他的时间

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The gathering storm had made the day even darker than was usual at this hour.

即将到来的暴风雨使得天空看起来比平时这个时候更昏暗。

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He recalled her devotion to her husband during his hour of need.

他回忆起她在丈夫困难之时的忠贞奉献。

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...the darkest hour of my professional life.

我职业生涯中最黑暗的时期

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...the hours of darkness...

夜晚

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Phone us on this number during office hours.

上班时间打这个电话给我们。

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I worked quite irregular hours...

我的工作时间相当不固定。

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I only slept about half an hour that night.

我那天晚上只睡了大约半个小时。

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They waited for about two hours...

他们等了约两小时。

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