hours

1. N-COUNT 小时
   An hour is a period of sixty minutes.
   1. They waited for about two hours...
      他们等了约两小时。
   2. I only slept about half an hour that night.
      我那天晚上只睡了大约半个小时。
   3. ...a twenty-four hour strike...
      持续24小时的罢工
   4. London was an hour away and by the time I arrived the operation had already been performed.
      伦敦离这里有1小时路程，当我赶到时，手术已经完成了。
2. N-PLURAL 长时间
   People say that something takes or lasts hours to emphasize that it takes or lasts a very long time, or what seems like a very long time.
   1. Getting there would take hours.
      去那里要花很长时间。
3. （时钟的）钟点，整点
   A clock that strikes the hour strikes when it is exactly one o'clock, two o'clock, and so on.
4. N-SING 时间;时刻
   You can refer to a particular time or moment as a particular hour .
   1. ...the hour of his execution...
      处决他的时间
   2. 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。
5. N-COUNT （人一生中的某个）时候，时期
   If you refer, for example, to someone's hour of need or hour of happiness, you are referring to the time in their life when they are or were experiencing that condition or feeling.
   1. 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。
   2. ...the darkest hour of my professional life.
      我职业生涯中最黑暗的时期
6. N-PLURAL （每天发生或进行某事的）特定时间，固定时间
   You can refer to the period of time during which something happens or operates each day as the hours during which it happens or operates.
   1. ...the hours of darkness...
      夜晚
   2. Phone us on this number during office hours.
      上班时间打这个电话给我们。
   3. ...outside prison visiting hours.
      在探监时间以外
7. N-PLURAL （每周的）工作时间
   If you refer to the hours involved in a job, you are talking about how long you spend each week doing it and when you do it.
   1. I worked quite irregular hours...
      我的工作时间相当不固定。
   2. The job was easy; the hours were good.
      这份工作很轻松，工作时间也很合适。
8. → see: eleventh hour;lunch hour;rush hour
9. See also: ...a local restaurant where steel workers unwind after hours... Daly kept this school open after hours so it doubled as a community center. after-hours
10. PHRASE 在（某一时段的）任何时刻
    If you say that something happens at all hours of the day or night, you disapprove of it happening at the time that it does or as often as it does.
    1. 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。
    2. ...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。
11. PHRASE 在凌晨;在下半夜
    If something happens in the early hours or in the small hours, it happens in the early morning after midnight.
    1. Gibbs was arrested in the early hours of yesterday morning.
       吉布斯于昨天凌晨被捕。
12. PHRASE 长时间地;不停地
    If you say that someone does something hour after hour, you are emphasizing that they do it continually for a long time.
    1. 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。
13. 整点地
    If something happens on the hour, it happens every hour at, for example, nine o'clock, ten o'clock, and so on, and not at any number of minutes past an hour.
14. 整点差…分/ 整点过…分
    If you want to state the time exactly, you can give a number of minutes followed by before the hour or past the hour .
15. PHRASE 在通常营业（或工作、学习）时间之外
    Something that happens out of hours happens at a time that is not during the usual hours of business or work.
    1. 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。

1. They were spotted after three hours adrift in a dinghy.
   他们在小舢板上漂浮了3个小时后才被发现。
2. They sat for more than six hours, and both sides agreed they had aired all their differences
   他们一起坐了六个多小时，而且双方都认为他们已经表达了所有的不同意见。
3. It's astonishing, he's learned Latin in three hours!
   他花了3个小时就学会了拉丁文，真让人吃惊！
4. In less than two hours Cohen capitulated to virtually every demand.
   还不到两个小时，科恩就屈服了，接受了几乎一切要求。
5. They have extended the deadline by twenty-four hours.
   他们已经将最后期限延长了24小时。
6. By the time the tests took place, the athletes had had a full 17 hours notice.
   到检测开始时，离运动员得到通知已经整整17个小时了。
7. He's already been gone four hours!
   他已经离开4个小时了！
8. We have only a few hours 'grace before the soldiers come.
   士兵到来之前我们只剩下几个小时了。
9. They waited for about two hours
   他们等了约两小时。
10. I worked quite irregular hours
    我的工作时间相当不固定。
11. The repaired sail lasted less than 24 hours
    修好的帆支撑了不到24小时。
12. They held him for three hours and they let him go
    他们扣留了他3个小时后放走了他。
13. I had been standing in line for three hours.
    我已经排了3个小时的队。
14. Six hours were lost in all.
    一共浪费了6个小时。
15. He had spent several hours mixing cement
    他花了几个小时搅拌水泥。
16. She reached Karachi on Monday evening, the journey having occupied three days and nine hours.
    她在星期一晚上抵达了卡拉奇，这段行程耗时3天9小时。
17. Hours later we reached the outskirts of New York.
    我们几小时后到达了纽约市郊。
18. It took me about two hours to pluck up courage to call.
    我用了大约2个小时才鼓起勇气打电话。
19. Train services were halted as the fire raged for more than four hours
    火灾肆虐超过4个小时，期间列车停止了运行。
20. I had spent too many hours there and was beginning to get a bit ratty and fed up.
    我在那儿呆了很长时间，开始有点恼火和不耐烦了。
21. One dead child was found in the ruins almost two hours after the explosion
    爆炸发生将近两个小时以后，在废墟中发现了一个已经死亡的小孩。
22. She spent hours practising the breast stroke.
    她花了数小时练习蛙泳。
23. He had slept for over fourteen hours, and his system seemed to have recuperated admirably
    他已睡了超过14个小时了，他的身体恢复得很不错。
24. I queued for two hours to get a ticket to see the football game
    我排了两个小时的队，就是为了买张足球赛的票。
25. White-collar workers now work longer hours.
    如今白领工人的工作时间比以前更长了。
26. We worked only two hours in the afternoon, but we accomplished a lot.
    我们下午虽然只干了两个钟头，可是很出活。
27. We still have two hours to spare.
    我们还可以抽出两小时的时间。
28. He slept eight hours.
    他睡了八个小时。
29. She was lost in the maze for several hours.
    她在迷津中迷失了好几个小时。
30. The campfire smouldered for hours after the blaze died out.
    营火在火焰熄灭后闷烧了好几个小时。

noun

1. an indefinite period of time
   1. they talked for hours

2. a period of time assigned for work
   1. they work long hours