| 词组 | hour |
| 释义 | hour /aʊə $ aʊr/ noun [C] a unit for measuring time. There are 60 minutes in one hour, and 24 hours in one dayphraseshalf an hour also a half hour (=30 minutes) I’ll meet you in half an hour.(a) quarter of an hour (=15 minutes) She was only gone for about a quarter of an hour.three quarters of an hour (=45 minutes) The journey takes three quarters of an hour.miles/kilometres an hour (=used in speeds) The speed limit is 65 miles an hour.£10/$7 etc an hour (=used to say how much someone is paid or something costs) I earn £5 an hour babysitting.an hour’s walk/drive etc Frankfurt is about three hours’ drive away.an hour’s/six hours’ etc work (=that took you an hour, six hours etc to do) I did two hours’ work before breakfast.adverbsan hour/two hours etc later An hour later she arrived home.an hour/two hours etc earlier/before I had just seen him a few hours earlier.an hour/two hours etc ago He left an hour ago.verbssth takes an hour also it takes an hour to do sth It took about three hours to paint the whole wall.spend an hour I spent an hour reading.last (for) an hour The meeting lasted almost two hours.an hour goes by/passes Six hours had passed since he left, and I was starting to get worried.prepositionsfor an hour/for two hours etc I study for an hour every evening.in an hour/in two hours etc (=one hour etc from now) We’ll have to leave in an hour.within an hour/within two hours etc (=before one hour etc has passed) I should be back within an hour.over an hour/over two hours etc (=more than an hour etc) It took us over three hours to get there.under an hour/under two hours etc (=less than an hour etc) You can be in Amsterdam in under an hour.an hour/two hours etc of sth After ten hours of work, I was very tired.by the hour (=according to the number of hours) You can hire a boat for a whole day or by the hour.within hours of sth (=very soon after something else happened) Her bag was stolen within hours of her arrival. |
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