Definition of hour in English:

hour

noun ˈaʊəˈaʊ(ə)r

1A period of time equal to a twenty-fourth part of a day and night and divided into 60 minutes.
小时
an extra hour of daylight in the winter evenings
rates of pay were low, starting at £3.20 an hour
报酬标准很低，起价每小时1.2英镑。
as modifier, usually with preceding numeral a two-hour operation
Example sentencesExamples
- Toghar Pairc is within 15 minutes of Bray and within an hour's drive of the city centre.
- The throw in time is 7.30 and if the sides are again deadlocked at the end of the hour thirty minutes extra time will be played.
- After waiting for an hour and twenty minutes for our meals, we decided to do a runner and not pay for the drinks we had consumed in the meantime.
- Well the appointment was a big waste of an hour and twenty minutes.
- The thought of being entertained purely by tap for an hour and twenty minutes sounds mind-numbing and mundane.
- This is called anaphylaxis and can happen within minutes to hours of exposure to the substance that the person is allergic to.
- The Queen had a full schedule and was only able to stay an hour and twenty minutes.
- He followed that in Austria last year by knocking two hours 22 minutes off his previous time.
- We had to split the journey up into little segments, so what should have taken an hour and twenty minutes must have taken best part of three hours.
- The clock in her car, for example, remains about an hour and twenty minutes off, and remains a mystery to me.
- So, that's about an hour and twenty minutes from now, and we'll keep you posted on that one.
- All of you will be putting in an extra two hours every day next week just for that little stunt.
- Seconds turned to minutes, and minutes turned into hours with equal grace and ease.
- Seven members of the team stayed through the night - which included an extra hour thanks to daylight saving.
- For older pupils the aim is to increase time spent on PE from one hour and 20 minutes to two hours a week by 2007.
- It may be minutes, hours days or even years that you are helping yet the gratitude will be there.
- My parents strode in two hours later and within minutes we were screaming at each other.
- Tomasson mentioned that Balanchine had created the work in an hour and twenty minutes, asking Tomasson to show it to him.
- Out of an hour and twenty minute class, I gave them the entire period to spend amongst each other.
- Ivan tried to keep track of the hours, minutes and seconds, but she lost it somewhere.
Synonyms
moment, time, point in time, moment in time, minute, second
1. 1.1 A more indefinite period of time.
  一段时间
  during the early hours of the morning
  在凌晨这段时间。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Let me zoom you into a couple problem areas that we have seen through the morning hours.
  He tripped this morning and he fell in the early morning hours while he was getting dressed.
  She sat silently through the hours as the sun traveled across the sky and she stayed even as it fell.
  For the first time, she was glad of the fact that Carden had them travel during the dark hours.
  Even those working in the early morning hours keep their heads swathed in cloth.
  Very few manage to make time to go to a health club in the morning or evening hours, when it is usually open to all.
  Two days later a relative left in the very early hours of the morning, to avoid the heat, with the coffin in the back of a buckie.
  So, all my knowledge of art came from scavenged bits and pieces in the late hours of the morning.
  One of the things I always get told off for is my habit of staying up till wee hours in the morning.
  Why not transform the empty night-time hours of the Yorkshire Museum into profitable activity?
  Non-news channels like the Food Network will simply play mellow music during the crucial morning hours.
  It's not out of the ordinary for vehicles to pull in at that time of the morning, late hours.
  It is now a daily occurrence for staff to be asked to work back far into the night and early hours of the morning.
  The other biggest concern was the overwhelming heat during the peak hours of the evening.
  They came in handy for strollers to take a spot of rest during the morning and evening hours.
  They sneak in in the midnight hours, but grey-headed women come to jeer them as they pass.
  Suddenly the silence of the morning hours was broken by a soft buzzing noise in the far distance.
  Youths are seen seriously doing workouts during early morning and late evening hours.
  Embers began burning in the east, casting light upon the land in the early winter hours.
  We used to be against each other for a lot of years in those early morning hours, remember?
2. 1.2 The distance travelled in one hour.
  一小时的行程
  Ocean City is less than an hour away
  去海洋城用不了一小时。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Yep, that's a total of nearly £1000 for two people to travel the few hours to Birmingham.
  I would roll out of bed, into training, now I have to get up with more purpose and travel over an hour to work.
  A few hours before midday and an hour out of the mountains, they came to a large field.
  Dad had been gone all day for some case that required him to travel three hours away.
  That meant she would have to be traveling many hours away from home just to go to college.
  They traveled a few hours down the road and found the horses that Arnon was talking about.
  We travelled one hour up the Pearl River by high-speed jet boats to the port of Zhongshan.
  They'd traveled about an hour away from Kol when Beau materialized out of the tree.
2A time of day specified as an exact number of hours from midnight or midday.
（从午夜或正午算起的）整点，…点整
the clock in the sitting room struck the hour
起居室的钟在整点报时。
Example sentencesExamples
- I left Dublin after the midnight hour and rolled west along the road, all too well aware that part of my link with the old city had come to an end.
- Conor Galgey from Rossvale in Portlaoise was anxiety waiting for the midnight hour.
- He heard bells chime in the distance, singing the hour, but he saw them as bells of freedom.
- Ask yourself, why did India awake to light and freedom at the stroke of the midnight hour…
- Hearing the clock upon an old building chime the hour of one in the morning, Alaina became more anxious.
- A clock chimed the hour in the distance, and Gracelin suddenly felt very tired.
- Throughout their stay at Kandahar the guards carried out head-counts every hour at night to keep the prisoners awake.
- At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.
- His single cell was the last on the range of twenty-one cells and thus was reached some minutes after the hour.
- Come to me later in the evening in the seventh hour after midday, and I will give the prescription to you.
- Listening to this radio show, though, you can't help but fall in love with music to listen to at the midnight hour.
Synonyms
early years, early life, young days, teens, teenage years, adolescence, young adulthood, boyhood, girlhood, childhood
1. 2.1hourswith preceding numeral A time specified on the twenty-four-hour clock.
  在24小时计时制的钟上的准点时间
  the first bomb fell at 0051 hours
  第一颗炸弹在零点51分投下。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The monthly charge covers scheduled servicing carried out between 08:00 to 18:00 hours Monday to Friday.
  Visa applications can be submitted from Monday to Friday from 08:00 hours to 12:00 hours and from 13:00 to 16:00 hours.
2. 2.2 The time as formerly reckoned from sunrise.
  （以前）从太阳升起计算的时间
  it was about the ninth hour
  太阳升起约有九个小时了。
  Example sentencesExamples
  And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.
  Birds arrived between the end of the third hour after sunset and sunrise.
  And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?
  Unfortunately towards the end of the race during the ninth hour, we had to make a pit stop because we have a technical problem with the engine starter.
3A fixed period of time for an activity, such as work, use of a building, etc.
（为某一活动，例如工作、建筑物的使用等的）一段固定时间
the dinner hour
licensing hours
许可的时间。
opening hours
许可的时间。
Example sentencesExamples
- The new recruits will also be expected to travel long distances and work anti-social hours.
- Nearly half cited the changes in working hours as the purpose of the deal.
- Mr Hilton wanted to retain the morning hours of the shop and decided to open Monday to Friday.
- The purpose of this bill is to abolish shop trading hour restrictions on Easter Sunday.
- He is more impressed with the proposal to do away with fixed pub hours, planned for both Scotland and England.
- Both the boys followed them, saying it was too dangerous to walk around the school building after school hours.
- It also means that many cannot work long hours or travel long distances to find a job.
- She has since cut back on her hours and the distances she travels to spend more time with her family.
- We have precious little time as it is, but I try to set aside hours to do just that.
- Divorce or long working hours can cause emotional distance from your children.
- He said he believed a few may apply for longer hours ahead of the deadline in November and then only for one extra hour or two.
- Working hours can be purposefully staggered to meet the needs of the organisation and the individual.
- The shopping will keep similar hours to the leisure and entertainment areas.
- It becomes a Herculean task for them to reach their respective shops during morning hours.
- In my home city they are now considering longer licensing hours to entice the tourists to keep coming.
- The restrictions on drinking establishments and licensing hours date from this period.
- I like to participate in company activities outside working hours, as it is a good way to get to know your colleagues better.
- This course costs 50 with a morning or evening session to suit all working hours.
- A short game has been fine-tuned, while other long hours have been set aside for strength and fitness work in the gym.
- I also think the relaxation of off license trading hours will help a lot.
1. 3.1 A particular point in time.
  特定的时刻（或时间点）
  I wondered if my last hour had come
  不知我的最后时刻是否到了。
  you can't turn him away at this hour
  这个节骨眼上你不能拒绝他。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The night went on without a hitch, but an hour had past, twelve midnight, the bewitching hour.
  The exact hour is hidden in God's design, yet we can be certain that he will come again as the King of Love.
  I cannot seem to achieve anything if I don't have a deadline with a date and a fixed hour, looming over my head.
  Then, at the midnight hour of the request to extradite him, only THEN did they offer to hand him over to the Pakistan courts.
  Day and night make little difference and there are no closing hours or weekends.
  The period was not the studio's finest hour and he did not fit in, spending more time hiding in a cupboard than at his desk drawing.
  The baby chooses the hour and minute of birth, the parents the year and month, and the place.
4hours(in the Western (Latin) Church) a short service of psalms and prayers to be said at a particular time of day, especially in religious communities.
（西派教会中）固定时分短礼拜（尤指宗教团体的）
an organized life of prayer including the canonical hours
Example sentencesExamples
- The Hours correspond to the Old Testament services beginning each of the four "watches" of the day.
- The Liturgy of the Hours is centered on chanting or recitation of the Psalms, using fixed melodic formulas known as psalm tones.
5Astronomy
15° of longitude or right ascension (one twenty-fourth part of a circle).
〔天文〕黄经（或赤经）15°（圆的1/24）
Example sentencesExamples
- If the right ascension of objects transiting the meridian is 12 hours, then an object rising at the same time due east has a right ascension of 18 hours and an object setting due west has a right ascension of 6 hours.
- Any object on the same hour circle will have the same right ascension, just as any place on earth on the same meridian of longitude has the same longitude.

Phrases

all hours

Most of the time, especially outside the time considered usual.
（尤指在通常做某事的时间之外的）大部分时间
teenagers expect to be allowed to stay out to all hours
青少年希望被允许大部分时间待在外面。
Example sentencesExamples
- I've seen some of them wandering about at all hours of the night.
- If they didn't expect shops to open all hours then they wouldn't.
- People living nearby fear for their own homes, after a number of fires at the site, and are worried children are often inside at all hours.
- Those who have to suffer the consequences are wondering why local parents are letting their teenagers run amok at all hours of the night.
- Applicant Ian Curwen is hoping to re-open the garage, offering petrol and garage-shop fare at all hours.
- So, naturally they may play football or volleyball outside your room at all hours of the day and night.
- People gather at all hours of the day, some staring in awe, others simply curious.
- She had a special key to the Sheen Gate, so she had access to White Lodge at all hours.
- They forced the Government's hand over Sunday trading by illegally opening all hours, to the delight of shoppers.
- I wrote and arranged music, and produced hit records at all hours of the night and weekends.

keep late (or regular) hours

Get up and go to bed late (or at the same time) every day.
每天做同一件事情（多指起床和睡觉）很晚（或有规律）
she'd been under the impression that natives of Spanish-speaking countries kept late hours
Example sentencesExamples
- Dependent on the passing trade, Istanbul is open seven days a week and keeps late hours.
- I keep late hours and wake early in the morning.
- It appears that my unidentified contact keeps late hours.
- Mind you, I've not yet seen him - he seems to keep late hours, but has apparently been preparing for a conference in Cyprus that he is now away upon.
- You share order-in pizza or sandwiches from the all-night deli or you slip our for noodles at the Chinese place that keeps late hours.

on the hour

At the same time every hour, or at the beginning of each hour.
每逢整点；在每一小时（开始时）
news bulletins all day on the hour
全天整点发布的新闻简报。
Example sentencesExamples
- Same goes if you're doing it every hour on the hour.
- It felt like a gradual poem coming across the TV screen in the same way a news story keeps adding one tiny little detail every hour on the hour.
- I rang every hour, on the hour, until three in the morning, for several nights.
- A child's handful of balloons escapes, as they must do every hour on the hour, and floats away over the Magic Kingdom.
- I can tell you that over the past five days we've done a count every hour on the hour, and it's well under 10 minutes.

out of hours

Available or taking place during the period of the day in which business is not normally conducted.
our out of hours GP service
Example sentencesExamples
- I rang the Out Of Hours doctor who immediately arranged an appointment for me.
- The department provides an Out of Hours noise patrol on 4 nights of the week.
- "People must ring the Out of Hours number first," she said.
- The Out of Hours team consists of six social workers and a team manager.
- The finder of Bella should have notified the Dog Warden Service as soon as she was found and we and the Out of Hours contractor would have arranged reunification ASAP!

within the hour

After less than an hour.
一小时之内，不到一小时后
his response came within the hour
他不到一个小时就作了答复。
Example sentencesExamples
- Your order is processed within the hour when ordering during normal business hours.
- If the recovery time is not spontaneous within the hour, then recovery times can vary from weeks to several months, and permanent damage may have occurred.
- We're going to have a vote within the hour on this apparently.
- They would have been back on the streets within the hour.
- The prime minister will go to the White House within the hour.

Origin

Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French ure, via Latin from Greek hōra 'season, hour'.

Hours came into English from French, and goes back to Greek hōra ‘season, hour’. year is a distant relation. The Old English equivalent was tide. The eleventh hour, meaning ‘the latest possible moment’, comes from the parable of the labourers in the Gospel of Matthew, in which someone pays people he hired at the beginning of the day the same daily rate as those he hired at the last or eleventh hour. The phrase their finest hour was part of Winston Churchill's speech in the House of Commons on 18 June 1940, before the Battle of Britain began: ‘Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth lasts for a thousand years, men will still say, “This was their finest hour.”

Rhymes

bower, cower, devour, dower, embower, empower, endower, flour, flower, gaur, Glendower, glower, lour, lower, our, plougher (US plower), power, scour, shower, sour, Stour, sweet-and-sour, tower

Definition of hour in US English:

hour

nounˈaʊ(ə)rˈou(ə)r

1A period of time equal to a twenty-fourth part of a day and night and divided into 60 minutes.
小时
as modifier, usually with preceding numeral a two-hour operation
an extra hour of daylight
rates have ranged from $9 to $32 an hour
Example sentencesExamples
- My parents strode in two hours later and within minutes we were screaming at each other.
- The Queen had a full schedule and was only able to stay an hour and twenty minutes.
- Seconds turned to minutes, and minutes turned into hours with equal grace and ease.
- Out of an hour and twenty minute class, I gave them the entire period to spend amongst each other.
- After waiting for an hour and twenty minutes for our meals, we decided to do a runner and not pay for the drinks we had consumed in the meantime.
- We had to split the journey up into little segments, so what should have taken an hour and twenty minutes must have taken best part of three hours.
- So, that's about an hour and twenty minutes from now, and we'll keep you posted on that one.
- Toghar Pairc is within 15 minutes of Bray and within an hour's drive of the city centre.
- This is called anaphylaxis and can happen within minutes to hours of exposure to the substance that the person is allergic to.
- The clock in her car, for example, remains about an hour and twenty minutes off, and remains a mystery to me.
- Well the appointment was a big waste of an hour and twenty minutes.
- The throw in time is 7.30 and if the sides are again deadlocked at the end of the hour thirty minutes extra time will be played.
- All of you will be putting in an extra two hours every day next week just for that little stunt.
- Seven members of the team stayed through the night - which included an extra hour thanks to daylight saving.
- He followed that in Austria last year by knocking two hours 22 minutes off his previous time.
- Ivan tried to keep track of the hours, minutes and seconds, but she lost it somewhere.
- The thought of being entertained purely by tap for an hour and twenty minutes sounds mind-numbing and mundane.
- Tomasson mentioned that Balanchine had created the work in an hour and twenty minutes, asking Tomasson to show it to him.
- It may be minutes, hours days or even years that you are helping yet the gratitude will be there.
- For older pupils the aim is to increase time spent on PE from one hour and 20 minutes to two hours a week by 2007.
Synonyms
moment, time, point in time, moment in time, minute, second
1. 1.1 A less definite period of time.
  一段时间
  during the early hours of the morning
  在凌晨这段时间。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Let me zoom you into a couple problem areas that we have seen through the morning hours.
  One of the things I always get told off for is my habit of staying up till wee hours in the morning.
  The other biggest concern was the overwhelming heat during the peak hours of the evening.
  Why not transform the empty night-time hours of the Yorkshire Museum into profitable activity?
  They sneak in in the midnight hours, but grey-headed women come to jeer them as they pass.
  For the first time, she was glad of the fact that Carden had them travel during the dark hours.
  Embers began burning in the east, casting light upon the land in the early winter hours.
  Two days later a relative left in the very early hours of the morning, to avoid the heat, with the coffin in the back of a buckie.
  He tripped this morning and he fell in the early morning hours while he was getting dressed.
  It is now a daily occurrence for staff to be asked to work back far into the night and early hours of the morning.
  Suddenly the silence of the morning hours was broken by a soft buzzing noise in the far distance.
  Even those working in the early morning hours keep their heads swathed in cloth.
  Very few manage to make time to go to a health club in the morning or evening hours, when it is usually open to all.
  Youths are seen seriously doing workouts during early morning and late evening hours.
  She sat silently through the hours as the sun traveled across the sky and she stayed even as it fell.
  We used to be against each other for a lot of years in those early morning hours, remember?
  It's not out of the ordinary for vehicles to pull in at that time of the morning, late hours.
  They came in handy for strollers to take a spot of rest during the morning and evening hours.
  Non-news channels like the Food Network will simply play mellow music during the crucial morning hours.
  So, all my knowledge of art came from scavenged bits and pieces in the late hours of the morning.
2. 1.2 The distance traveled in one hour.
  一小时的行程
  Ocean City is less than an hour away
  去海洋城用不了一小时。
  Example sentencesExamples
  That meant she would have to be traveling many hours away from home just to go to college.
  I would roll out of bed, into training, now I have to get up with more purpose and travel over an hour to work.
  Dad had been gone all day for some case that required him to travel three hours away.
  They'd traveled about an hour away from Kol when Beau materialized out of the tree.
  A few hours before midday and an hour out of the mountains, they came to a large field.
  We travelled one hour up the Pearl River by high-speed jet boats to the port of Zhongshan.
  They traveled a few hours down the road and found the horses that Arnon was talking about.
  Yep, that's a total of nearly £1000 for two people to travel the few hours to Birmingham.
2A time of day specified as an exact number of hours from midnight or midday.
（从午夜或正午算起的）整点，…点整
the clock in the sitting room struck the hour
起居室的钟在整点报时。
Example sentencesExamples
- Ask yourself, why did India awake to light and freedom at the stroke of the midnight hour…
- At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom.
- Come to me later in the evening in the seventh hour after midday, and I will give the prescription to you.
- He heard bells chime in the distance, singing the hour, but he saw them as bells of freedom.
- A clock chimed the hour in the distance, and Gracelin suddenly felt very tired.
- Conor Galgey from Rossvale in Portlaoise was anxiety waiting for the midnight hour.
- Hearing the clock upon an old building chime the hour of one in the morning, Alaina became more anxious.
- I left Dublin after the midnight hour and rolled west along the road, all too well aware that part of my link with the old city had come to an end.
- Listening to this radio show, though, you can't help but fall in love with music to listen to at the midnight hour.
- His single cell was the last on the range of twenty-one cells and thus was reached some minutes after the hour.
- Throughout their stay at Kandahar the guards carried out head-counts every hour at night to keep the prisoners awake.
Synonyms
early years, early life, young days, teens, teenage years, adolescence, young adulthood, boyhood, girlhood, childhood
1. 2.1hourswith preceding numeral A time specified on the 24-hour clock.
  在24小时计时制的钟上的准点时间
  the first bomb fell at 0051 hours
  第一颗炸弹在零点51分投下。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Visa applications can be submitted from Monday to Friday from 08:00 hours to 12:00 hours and from 13:00 to 16:00 hours.
  The monthly charge covers scheduled servicing carried out between 08:00 to 18:00 hours Monday to Friday.
2. 2.2 The time as formerly reckoned from sunrise.
  （以前）从太阳升起计算的时间
  it was about the ninth hour
  太阳升起约有九个小时了。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Birds arrived between the end of the third hour after sunset and sunrise.
  And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.
  And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?
  Unfortunately towards the end of the race during the ninth hour, we had to make a pit stop because we have a technical problem with the engine starter.
3A fixed period of time for an activity, such as work, use of a building, etc.
（为某一活动，例如工作、建筑物的使用等的）一段固定时间
the dinner hour
shortened working hours
Example sentencesExamples
- He is more impressed with the proposal to do away with fixed pub hours, planned for both Scotland and England.
- The new recruits will also be expected to travel long distances and work anti-social hours.
- He said he believed a few may apply for longer hours ahead of the deadline in November and then only for one extra hour or two.
- Divorce or long working hours can cause emotional distance from your children.
- The restrictions on drinking establishments and licensing hours date from this period.
- Working hours can be purposefully staggered to meet the needs of the organisation and the individual.
- We have precious little time as it is, but I try to set aside hours to do just that.
- The purpose of this bill is to abolish shop trading hour restrictions on Easter Sunday.
- Nearly half cited the changes in working hours as the purpose of the deal.
- Both the boys followed them, saying it was too dangerous to walk around the school building after school hours.
- I like to participate in company activities outside working hours, as it is a good way to get to know your colleagues better.
- In my home city they are now considering longer licensing hours to entice the tourists to keep coming.
- It also means that many cannot work long hours or travel long distances to find a job.
- A short game has been fine-tuned, while other long hours have been set aside for strength and fitness work in the gym.
- She has since cut back on her hours and the distances she travels to spend more time with her family.
- The shopping will keep similar hours to the leisure and entertainment areas.
- Mr Hilton wanted to retain the morning hours of the shop and decided to open Monday to Friday.
- I also think the relaxation of off license trading hours will help a lot.
- This course costs 50 with a morning or evening session to suit all working hours.
- It becomes a Herculean task for them to reach their respective shops during morning hours.
1. 3.1 A particular point in time.
  特定的时刻（或时间点）
  I wondered if my last hour had come
  不知我的最后时刻是否到了。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Day and night make little difference and there are no closing hours or weekends.
  The exact hour is hidden in God's design, yet we can be certain that he will come again as the King of Love.
  The baby chooses the hour and minute of birth, the parents the year and month, and the place.
  Then, at the midnight hour of the request to extradite him, only THEN did they offer to hand him over to the Pakistan courts.
  I cannot seem to achieve anything if I don't have a deadline with a date and a fixed hour, looming over my head.
  The night went on without a hitch, but an hour had past, twelve midnight, the bewitching hour.
  The period was not the studio's finest hour and he did not fit in, spending more time hiding in a cupboard than at his desk drawing.
4usually hours(in the Western Church) a short service of psalms and prayers to be said at a particular time of day, especially in religious communities.
（西派教会中）固定时分短礼拜（尤指宗教团体的）
Example sentencesExamples
- The Liturgy of the Hours is centered on chanting or recitation of the Psalms, using fixed melodic formulas known as psalm tones.
- The Hours correspond to the Old Testament services beginning each of the four "watches" of the day.
5Astronomy
15° of longitude or right ascension (one twenty-fourth part of a circle).
〔天文〕黄经（或赤经）15°（圆的1/24）
Example sentencesExamples
- If the right ascension of objects transiting the meridian is 12 hours, then an object rising at the same time due east has a right ascension of 18 hours and an object setting due west has a right ascension of 6 hours.
- Any object on the same hour circle will have the same right ascension, just as any place on earth on the same meridian of longitude has the same longitude.

Phrases

all hours

Any time, especially outside the time considered usual for something.
（尤指在通常做某事的时间之外的）大部分时间
teenagers expect to be allowed to stay out to all hours
青少年希望被允许大部分时间待在外面。
intruders had access at all hours
Example sentencesExamples
- So, naturally they may play football or volleyball outside your room at all hours of the day and night.
- People gather at all hours of the day, some staring in awe, others simply curious.
- They forced the Government's hand over Sunday trading by illegally opening all hours, to the delight of shoppers.
- I've seen some of them wandering about at all hours of the night.
- She had a special key to the Sheen Gate, so she had access to White Lodge at all hours.
- People living nearby fear for their own homes, after a number of fires at the site, and are worried children are often inside at all hours.
- If they didn't expect shops to open all hours then they wouldn't.
- Those who have to suffer the consequences are wondering why local parents are letting their teenagers run amok at all hours of the night.
- Applicant Ian Curwen is hoping to re-open the garage, offering petrol and garage-shop fare at all hours.
- I wrote and arranged music, and produced hit records at all hours of the night and weekends.

keep late hours

Get up and go to bed late.
Example sentencesExamples
- But to keep regular hours would be boring for me.
- If the actual worked hours in column H is less than the Regular Hours value in H2, we want to use the actual number of worked hours.

on the hour

At an exact hour, or on each hour, of the day or night.
每逢整点；在每一小时（开始时）
news bulletins on the hour
全天整点发布的新闻简报。
Example sentencesExamples
- A child's handful of balloons escapes, as they must do every hour on the hour, and floats away over the Magic Kingdom.
- I can tell you that over the past five days we've done a count every hour on the hour, and it's well under 10 minutes.
- I rang every hour, on the hour, until three in the morning, for several nights.
- Same goes if you're doing it every hour on the hour.
- It felt like a gradual poem coming across the TV screen in the same way a news story keeps adding one tiny little detail every hour on the hour.

within the hour

After less than an hour.
一小时之内，不到一小时后
Example sentencesExamples
- We're going to have a vote within the hour on this apparently.
- They would have been back on the streets within the hour.
- The prime minister will go to the White House within the hour.
- If the recovery time is not spontaneous within the hour, then recovery times can vary from weeks to several months, and permanent damage may have occurred.
- Your order is processed within the hour when ordering during normal business hours.

keep regular hours

Do the same thing at the same time every day.
Example sentencesExamples
- Mind you, I've not yet seen him - he seems to keep late hours, but has apparently been preparing for a conference in Cyprus that he is now away upon.
- It appears that my unidentified contact keeps late hours.
- I keep late hours and wake early in the morning.
- Dependent on the passing trade, Istanbul is open seven days a week and keeps late hours.
- You share order-in pizza or sandwiches from the all-night deli or you slip our for noodles at the Chinese place that keeps late hours.

Origin

Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French ure, via Latin from Greek hōra ‘season, hour’.

词汇	hour
释义	Definition of hour in English: hour noun ˈaʊəˈaʊ(ə)r 1A period of time equal to a twenty-fourth part of a day and night and divided into 60 minutes. 小时 an extra hour of daylight in the winter evenings rates of pay were low, starting at £3.20 an hour 报酬标准很低，起价每小时1.2英镑。 as modifier, usually with preceding numeral a two-hour operation Example sentencesExamples Toghar Pairc is within 15 minutes of Bray and within an hour's drive of the city centre. The throw in time is 7.30 and if the sides are again deadlocked at the end of the hour thirty minutes extra time will be played. After waiting for an hour and twenty minutes for our meals, we decided to do a runner and not pay for the drinks we had consumed in the meantime. Well the appointment was a big waste of an hour and twenty minutes. The thought of being entertained purely by tap for an hour and twenty minutes sounds mind-numbing and mundane. This is called anaphylaxis and can happen within minutes to hours of exposure to the substance that the person is allergic to. The Queen had a full schedule and was only able to stay an hour and twenty minutes. He followed that in Austria last year by knocking two hours 22 minutes off his previous time. We had to split the journey up into little segments, so what should have taken an hour and twenty minutes must have taken best part of three hours. The clock in her car, for example, remains about an hour and twenty minutes off, and remains a mystery to me. So, that's about an hour and twenty minutes from now, and we'll keep you posted on that one. All of you will be putting in an extra two hours every day next week just for that little stunt. Seconds turned to minutes, and minutes turned into hours with equal grace and ease. Seven members of the team stayed through the night - which included an extra hour thanks to daylight saving. For older pupils the aim is to increase time spent on PE from one hour and 20 minutes to two hours a week by 2007. It may be minutes, hours days or even years that you are helping yet the gratitude will be there. My parents strode in two hours later and within minutes we were screaming at each other. Tomasson mentioned that Balanchine had created the work in an hour and twenty minutes, asking Tomasson to show it to him. Out of an hour and twenty minute class, I gave them the entire period to spend amongst each other. Ivan tried to keep track of the hours, minutes and seconds, but she lost it somewhere. Synonyms moment, time, point in time, moment in time, minute, second 1.1 A more indefinite period of time. 一段时间 during the early hours of the morning 在凌晨这段时间。 Example sentencesExamples Let me zoom you into a couple problem areas that we have seen through the morning hours. He tripped this morning and he fell in the early morning hours while he was getting dressed. She sat silently through the hours as the sun traveled across the sky and she stayed even as it fell. For the first time, she was glad of the fact that Carden had them travel during the dark hours. Even those working in the early morning hours keep their heads swathed in cloth. Very few manage to make time to go to a health club in the morning or evening hours, when it is usually open to all. Two days later a relative left in the very early hours of the morning, to avoid the heat, with the coffin in the back of a buckie. So, all my knowledge of art came from scavenged bits and pieces in the late hours of the morning. One of the things I always get told off for is my habit of staying up till wee hours in the morning. Why not transform the empty night-time hours of the Yorkshire Museum into profitable activity? Non-news channels like the Food Network will simply play mellow music during the crucial morning hours. It's not out of the ordinary for vehicles to pull in at that time of the morning, late hours. It is now a daily occurrence for staff to be asked to work back far into the night and early hours of the morning. The other biggest concern was the overwhelming heat during the peak hours of the evening. They came in handy for strollers to take a spot of rest during the morning and evening hours. They sneak in in the midnight hours, but grey-headed women come to jeer them as they pass. Suddenly the silence of the morning hours was broken by a soft buzzing noise in the far distance. Youths are seen seriously doing workouts during early morning and late evening hours. Embers began burning in the east, casting light upon the land in the early winter hours. We used to be against each other for a lot of years in those early morning hours, remember? 1.2 The distance travelled in one hour. 一小时的行程 Ocean City is less than an hour away 去海洋城用不了一小时。 Example sentencesExamples Yep, that's a total of nearly £1000 for two people to travel the few hours to Birmingham. I would roll out of bed, into training, now I have to get up with more purpose and travel over an hour to work. A few hours before midday and an hour out of the mountains, they came to a large field. Dad had been gone all day for some case that required him to travel three hours away. That meant she would have to be traveling many hours away from home just to go to college. They traveled a few hours down the road and found the horses that Arnon was talking about. We travelled one hour up the Pearl River by high-speed jet boats to the port of Zhongshan. They'd traveled about an hour away from Kol when Beau materialized out of the tree. 2A time of day specified as an exact number of hours from midnight or midday. （从午夜或正午算起的）整点，…点整 the clock in the sitting room struck the hour 起居室的钟在整点报时。 Example sentencesExamples I left Dublin after the midnight hour and rolled west along the road, all too well aware that part of my link with the old city had come to an end. Conor Galgey from Rossvale in Portlaoise was anxiety waiting for the midnight hour. He heard bells chime in the distance, singing the hour, but he saw them as bells of freedom. Ask yourself, why did India awake to light and freedom at the stroke of the midnight hour… Hearing the clock upon an old building chime the hour of one in the morning, Alaina became more anxious. A clock chimed the hour in the distance, and Gracelin suddenly felt very tired. Throughout their stay at Kandahar the guards carried out head-counts every hour at night to keep the prisoners awake. At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. His single cell was the last on the range of twenty-one cells and thus was reached some minutes after the hour. Come to me later in the evening in the seventh hour after midday, and I will give the prescription to you. Listening to this radio show, though, you can't help but fall in love with music to listen to at the midnight hour. Synonyms early years, early life, young days, teens, teenage years, adolescence, young adulthood, boyhood, girlhood, childhood 2.1hourswith preceding numeral A time specified on the twenty-four-hour clock. 在24小时计时制的钟上的准点时间 the first bomb fell at 0051 hours 第一颗炸弹在零点51分投下。 Example sentencesExamples The monthly charge covers scheduled servicing carried out between 08:00 to 18:00 hours Monday to Friday. Visa applications can be submitted from Monday to Friday from 08:00 hours to 12:00 hours and from 13:00 to 16:00 hours. 2.2 The time as formerly reckoned from sunrise. （以前）从太阳升起计算的时间 it was about the ninth hour 太阳升起约有九个小时了。 Example sentencesExamples And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour. Birds arrived between the end of the third hour after sunset and sunrise. And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? Unfortunately towards the end of the race during the ninth hour, we had to make a pit stop because we have a technical problem with the engine starter. 3A fixed period of time for an activity, such as work, use of a building, etc. （为某一活动，例如工作、建筑物的使用等的）一段固定时间 the dinner hour licensing hours 许可的时间。 opening hours 许可的时间。 Example sentencesExamples The new recruits will also be expected to travel long distances and work anti-social hours. Nearly half cited the changes in working hours as the purpose of the deal. Mr Hilton wanted to retain the morning hours of the shop and decided to open Monday to Friday. The purpose of this bill is to abolish shop trading hour restrictions on Easter Sunday. He is more impressed with the proposal to do away with fixed pub hours, planned for both Scotland and England. Both the boys followed them, saying it was too dangerous to walk around the school building after school hours. It also means that many cannot work long hours or travel long distances to find a job. She has since cut back on her hours and the distances she travels to spend more time with her family. We have precious little time as it is, but I try to set aside hours to do just that. Divorce or long working hours can cause emotional distance from your children. He said he believed a few may apply for longer hours ahead of the deadline in November and then only for one extra hour or two. Working hours can be purposefully staggered to meet the needs of the organisation and the individual. The shopping will keep similar hours to the leisure and entertainment areas. It becomes a Herculean task for them to reach their respective shops during morning hours. In my home city they are now considering longer licensing hours to entice the tourists to keep coming. The restrictions on drinking establishments and licensing hours date from this period. I like to participate in company activities outside working hours, as it is a good way to get to know your colleagues better. This course costs 50 with a morning or evening session to suit all working hours. A short game has been fine-tuned, while other long hours have been set aside for strength and fitness work in the gym. I also think the relaxation of off license trading hours will help a lot. 3.1 A particular point in time. 特定的时刻（或时间点） I wondered if my last hour had come 不知我的最后时刻是否到了。 you can't turn him away at this hour 这个节骨眼上你不能拒绝他。 Example sentencesExamples The night went on without a hitch, but an hour had past, twelve midnight, the bewitching hour. The exact hour is hidden in God's design, yet we can be certain that he will come again as the King of Love. I cannot seem to achieve anything if I don't have a deadline with a date and a fixed hour, looming over my head. Then, at the midnight hour of the request to extradite him, only THEN did they offer to hand him over to the Pakistan courts. Day and night make little difference and there are no closing hours or weekends. The period was not the studio's finest hour and he did not fit in, spending more time hiding in a cupboard than at his desk drawing. The baby chooses the hour and minute of birth, the parents the year and month, and the place. 4hours(in the Western (Latin) Church) a short service of psalms and prayers to be said at a particular time of day, especially in religious communities. （西派教会中）固定时分短礼拜（尤指宗教团体的） an organized life of prayer including the canonical hours Example sentencesExamples The Hours correspond to the Old Testament services beginning each of the four "watches" of the day. The Liturgy of the Hours is centered on chanting or recitation of the Psalms, using fixed melodic formulas known as psalm tones. 5Astronomy 15° of longitude or right ascension (one twenty-fourth part of a circle). 〔天文〕黄经（或赤经）15°（圆的1/24） Example sentencesExamples If the right ascension of objects transiting the meridian is 12 hours, then an object rising at the same time due east has a right ascension of 18 hours and an object setting due west has a right ascension of 6 hours. Any object on the same hour circle will have the same right ascension, just as any place on earth on the same meridian of longitude has the same longitude. Phrases all hours Most of the time, especially outside the time considered usual. （尤指在通常做某事的时间之外的）大部分时间 teenagers expect to be allowed to stay out to all hours 青少年希望被允许大部分时间待在外面。 Example sentencesExamples I've seen some of them wandering about at all hours of the night. If they didn't expect shops to open all hours then they wouldn't. People living nearby fear for their own homes, after a number of fires at the site, and are worried children are often inside at all hours. Those who have to suffer the consequences are wondering why local parents are letting their teenagers run amok at all hours of the night. Applicant Ian Curwen is hoping to re-open the garage, offering petrol and garage-shop fare at all hours. So, naturally they may play football or volleyball outside your room at all hours of the day and night. People gather at all hours of the day, some staring in awe, others simply curious. She had a special key to the Sheen Gate, so she had access to White Lodge at all hours. They forced the Government's hand over Sunday trading by illegally opening all hours, to the delight of shoppers. I wrote and arranged music, and produced hit records at all hours of the night and weekends. keep late (or regular) hours Get up and go to bed late (or at the same time) every day. 每天做同一件事情（多指起床和睡觉）很晚（或有规律） she'd been under the impression that natives of Spanish-speaking countries kept late hours Example sentencesExamples Dependent on the passing trade, Istanbul is open seven days a week and keeps late hours. I keep late hours and wake early in the morning. It appears that my unidentified contact keeps late hours. Mind you, I've not yet seen him - he seems to keep late hours, but has apparently been preparing for a conference in Cyprus that he is now away upon. You share order-in pizza or sandwiches from the all-night deli or you slip our for noodles at the Chinese place that keeps late hours. on the hour At the same time every hour, or at the beginning of each hour. 每逢整点；在每一小时（开始时） news bulletins all day on the hour 全天整点发布的新闻简报。 Example sentencesExamples Same goes if you're doing it every hour on the hour. It felt like a gradual poem coming across the TV screen in the same way a news story keeps adding one tiny little detail every hour on the hour. I rang every hour, on the hour, until three in the morning, for several nights. A child's handful of balloons escapes, as they must do every hour on the hour, and floats away over the Magic Kingdom. I can tell you that over the past five days we've done a count every hour on the hour, and it's well under 10 minutes. out of hours Available or taking place during the period of the day in which business is not normally conducted. our out of hours GP service Example sentencesExamples I rang the Out Of Hours doctor who immediately arranged an appointment for me. The department provides an Out of Hours noise patrol on 4 nights of the week. "People must ring the Out of Hours number first," she said. The Out of Hours team consists of six social workers and a team manager. The finder of Bella should have notified the Dog Warden Service as soon as she was found and we and the Out of Hours contractor would have arranged reunification ASAP! within the hour After less than an hour. 一小时之内，不到一小时后 his response came within the hour 他不到一个小时就作了答复。 Example sentencesExamples Your order is processed within the hour when ordering during normal business hours. If the recovery time is not spontaneous within the hour, then recovery times can vary from weeks to several months, and permanent damage may have occurred. We're going to have a vote within the hour on this apparently. They would have been back on the streets within the hour. The prime minister will go to the White House within the hour. Origin Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French ure, via Latin from Greek hōra 'season, hour'. Hours came into English from French, and goes back to Greek hōra ‘season, hour’. year is a distant relation. The Old English equivalent was tide. The eleventh hour, meaning ‘the latest possible moment’, comes from the parable of the labourers in the Gospel of Matthew, in which someone pays people he hired at the beginning of the day the same daily rate as those he hired at the last or eleventh hour. The phrase their finest hour was part of Winston Churchill's speech in the House of Commons on 18 June 1940, before the Battle of Britain began: ‘Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth lasts for a thousand years, men will still say, “This was their finest hour.” Rhymes bower, cower, devour, dower, embower, empower, endower, flour, flower, gaur, Glendower, glower, lour, lower, our, plougher (US plower), power, scour, shower, sour, Stour, sweet-and-sour, tower noun.1 phr. Definition of hour in US English: hour nounˈaʊ(ə)rˈou(ə)r 1A period of time equal to a twenty-fourth part of a day and night and divided into 60 minutes. 小时 as modifier, usually with preceding numeral a two-hour operation an extra hour of daylight rates have ranged from $9 to $32 an hour Example sentencesExamples My parents strode in two hours later and within minutes we were screaming at each other. The Queen had a full schedule and was only able to stay an hour and twenty minutes. Seconds turned to minutes, and minutes turned into hours with equal grace and ease. Out of an hour and twenty minute class, I gave them the entire period to spend amongst each other. After waiting for an hour and twenty minutes for our meals, we decided to do a runner and not pay for the drinks we had consumed in the meantime. We had to split the journey up into little segments, so what should have taken an hour and twenty minutes must have taken best part of three hours. So, that's about an hour and twenty minutes from now, and we'll keep you posted on that one. Toghar Pairc is within 15 minutes of Bray and within an hour's drive of the city centre. This is called anaphylaxis and can happen within minutes to hours of exposure to the substance that the person is allergic to. The clock in her car, for example, remains about an hour and twenty minutes off, and remains a mystery to me. Well the appointment was a big waste of an hour and twenty minutes. The throw in time is 7.30 and if the sides are again deadlocked at the end of the hour thirty minutes extra time will be played. All of you will be putting in an extra two hours every day next week just for that little stunt. Seven members of the team stayed through the night - which included an extra hour thanks to daylight saving. He followed that in Austria last year by knocking two hours 22 minutes off his previous time. Ivan tried to keep track of the hours, minutes and seconds, but she lost it somewhere. The thought of being entertained purely by tap for an hour and twenty minutes sounds mind-numbing and mundane. Tomasson mentioned that Balanchine had created the work in an hour and twenty minutes, asking Tomasson to show it to him. It may be minutes, hours days or even years that you are helping yet the gratitude will be there. For older pupils the aim is to increase time spent on PE from one hour and 20 minutes to two hours a week by 2007. Synonyms moment, time, point in time, moment in time, minute, second 1.1 A less definite period of time. 一段时间 during the early hours of the morning 在凌晨这段时间。 Example sentencesExamples Let me zoom you into a couple problem areas that we have seen through the morning hours. One of the things I always get told off for is my habit of staying up till wee hours in the morning. The other biggest concern was the overwhelming heat during the peak hours of the evening. Why not transform the empty night-time hours of the Yorkshire Museum into profitable activity? They sneak in in the midnight hours, but grey-headed women come to jeer them as they pass. For the first time, she was glad of the fact that Carden had them travel during the dark hours. Embers began burning in the east, casting light upon the land in the early winter hours. Two days later a relative left in the very early hours of the morning, to avoid the heat, with the coffin in the back of a buckie. He tripped this morning and he fell in the early morning hours while he was getting dressed. It is now a daily occurrence for staff to be asked to work back far into the night and early hours of the morning. Suddenly the silence of the morning hours was broken by a soft buzzing noise in the far distance. Even those working in the early morning hours keep their heads swathed in cloth. Very few manage to make time to go to a health club in the morning or evening hours, when it is usually open to all. Youths are seen seriously doing workouts during early morning and late evening hours. She sat silently through the hours as the sun traveled across the sky and she stayed even as it fell. We used to be against each other for a lot of years in those early morning hours, remember? It's not out of the ordinary for vehicles to pull in at that time of the morning, late hours. They came in handy for strollers to take a spot of rest during the morning and evening hours. Non-news channels like the Food Network will simply play mellow music during the crucial morning hours. So, all my knowledge of art came from scavenged bits and pieces in the late hours of the morning. 1.2 The distance traveled in one hour. 一小时的行程 Ocean City is less than an hour away 去海洋城用不了一小时。 Example sentencesExamples That meant she would have to be traveling many hours away from home just to go to college. I would roll out of bed, into training, now I have to get up with more purpose and travel over an hour to work. Dad had been gone all day for some case that required him to travel three hours away. They'd traveled about an hour away from Kol when Beau materialized out of the tree. A few hours before midday and an hour out of the mountains, they came to a large field. We travelled one hour up the Pearl River by high-speed jet boats to the port of Zhongshan. They traveled a few hours down the road and found the horses that Arnon was talking about. Yep, that's a total of nearly £1000 for two people to travel the few hours to Birmingham. 2A time of day specified as an exact number of hours from midnight or midday. （从午夜或正午算起的）整点，…点整 the clock in the sitting room struck the hour 起居室的钟在整点报时。 Example sentencesExamples Ask yourself, why did India awake to light and freedom at the stroke of the midnight hour… At the stroke of the midnight hour, when the world sleeps, India will awake to life and freedom. Come to me later in the evening in the seventh hour after midday, and I will give the prescription to you. He heard bells chime in the distance, singing the hour, but he saw them as bells of freedom. A clock chimed the hour in the distance, and Gracelin suddenly felt very tired. Conor Galgey from Rossvale in Portlaoise was anxiety waiting for the midnight hour. Hearing the clock upon an old building chime the hour of one in the morning, Alaina became more anxious. I left Dublin after the midnight hour and rolled west along the road, all too well aware that part of my link with the old city had come to an end. Listening to this radio show, though, you can't help but fall in love with music to listen to at the midnight hour. His single cell was the last on the range of twenty-one cells and thus was reached some minutes after the hour. Throughout their stay at Kandahar the guards carried out head-counts every hour at night to keep the prisoners awake. Synonyms early years, early life, young days, teens, teenage years, adolescence, young adulthood, boyhood, girlhood, childhood 2.1hourswith preceding numeral A time specified on the 24-hour clock. 在24小时计时制的钟上的准点时间 the first bomb fell at 0051 hours 第一颗炸弹在零点51分投下。 Example sentencesExamples Visa applications can be submitted from Monday to Friday from 08:00 hours to 12:00 hours and from 13:00 to 16:00 hours. The monthly charge covers scheduled servicing carried out between 08:00 to 18:00 hours Monday to Friday. 2.2 The time as formerly reckoned from sunrise. （以前）从太阳升起计算的时间 it was about the ninth hour 太阳升起约有九个小时了。 Example sentencesExamples Birds arrived between the end of the third hour after sunset and sunrise. And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour. And about the ninth hour Jesus cried out with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? Unfortunately towards the end of the race during the ninth hour, we had to make a pit stop because we have a technical problem with the engine starter. 3A fixed period of time for an activity, such as work, use of a building, etc. （为某一活动，例如工作、建筑物的使用等的）一段固定时间 the dinner hour shortened working hours Example sentencesExamples He is more impressed with the proposal to do away with fixed pub hours, planned for both Scotland and England. The new recruits will also be expected to travel long distances and work anti-social hours. He said he believed a few may apply for longer hours ahead of the deadline in November and then only for one extra hour or two. Divorce or long working hours can cause emotional distance from your children. The restrictions on drinking establishments and licensing hours date from this period. Working hours can be purposefully staggered to meet the needs of the organisation and the individual. We have precious little time as it is, but I try to set aside hours to do just that. The purpose of this bill is to abolish shop trading hour restrictions on Easter Sunday. Nearly half cited the changes in working hours as the purpose of the deal. Both the boys followed them, saying it was too dangerous to walk around the school building after school hours. I like to participate in company activities outside working hours, as it is a good way to get to know your colleagues better. In my home city they are now considering longer licensing hours to entice the tourists to keep coming. It also means that many cannot work long hours or travel long distances to find a job. A short game has been fine-tuned, while other long hours have been set aside for strength and fitness work in the gym. She has since cut back on her hours and the distances she travels to spend more time with her family. The shopping will keep similar hours to the leisure and entertainment areas. Mr Hilton wanted to retain the morning hours of the shop and decided to open Monday to Friday. I also think the relaxation of off license trading hours will help a lot. This course costs 50 with a morning or evening session to suit all working hours. It becomes a Herculean task for them to reach their respective shops during morning hours. 3.1 A particular point in time. 特定的时刻（或时间点） I wondered if my last hour had come 不知我的最后时刻是否到了。 Example sentencesExamples Day and night make little difference and there are no closing hours or weekends. The exact hour is hidden in God's design, yet we can be certain that he will come again as the King of Love. The baby chooses the hour and minute of birth, the parents the year and month, and the place. Then, at the midnight hour of the request to extradite him, only THEN did they offer to hand him over to the Pakistan courts. I cannot seem to achieve anything if I don't have a deadline with a date and a fixed hour, looming over my head. The night went on without a hitch, but an hour had past, twelve midnight, the bewitching hour. The period was not the studio's finest hour and he did not fit in, spending more time hiding in a cupboard than at his desk drawing. 4usually hours(in the Western Church) a short service of psalms and prayers to be said at a particular time of day, especially in religious communities. （西派教会中）固定时分短礼拜（尤指宗教团体的） Example sentencesExamples The Liturgy of the Hours is centered on chanting or recitation of the Psalms, using fixed melodic formulas known as psalm tones. The Hours correspond to the Old Testament services beginning each of the four "watches" of the day. 5Astronomy 15° of longitude or right ascension (one twenty-fourth part of a circle). 〔天文〕黄经（或赤经）15°（圆的1/24） Example sentencesExamples If the right ascension of objects transiting the meridian is 12 hours, then an object rising at the same time due east has a right ascension of 18 hours and an object setting due west has a right ascension of 6 hours. Any object on the same hour circle will have the same right ascension, just as any place on earth on the same meridian of longitude has the same longitude. Phrases all hours Any time, especially outside the time considered usual for something. （尤指在通常做某事的时间之外的）大部分时间 teenagers expect to be allowed to stay out to all hours 青少年希望被允许大部分时间待在外面。 intruders had access at all hours Example sentencesExamples So, naturally they may play football or volleyball outside your room at all hours of the day and night. People gather at all hours of the day, some staring in awe, others simply curious. They forced the Government's hand over Sunday trading by illegally opening all hours, to the delight of shoppers. I've seen some of them wandering about at all hours of the night. She had a special key to the Sheen Gate, so she had access to White Lodge at all hours. People living nearby fear for their own homes, after a number of fires at the site, and are worried children are often inside at all hours. If they didn't expect shops to open all hours then they wouldn't. Those who have to suffer the consequences are wondering why local parents are letting their teenagers run amok at all hours of the night. Applicant Ian Curwen is hoping to re-open the garage, offering petrol and garage-shop fare at all hours. I wrote and arranged music, and produced hit records at all hours of the night and weekends. keep late hours Get up and go to bed late. Example sentencesExamples But to keep regular hours would be boring for me. If the actual worked hours in column H is less than the Regular Hours value in H2, we want to use the actual number of worked hours. on the hour At an exact hour, or on each hour, of the day or night. 每逢整点；在每一小时（开始时） news bulletins on the hour 全天整点发布的新闻简报。 Example sentencesExamples A child's handful of balloons escapes, as they must do every hour on the hour, and floats away over the Magic Kingdom. I can tell you that over the past five days we've done a count every hour on the hour, and it's well under 10 minutes. I rang every hour, on the hour, until three in the morning, for several nights. Same goes if you're doing it every hour on the hour. It felt like a gradual poem coming across the TV screen in the same way a news story keeps adding one tiny little detail every hour on the hour. within the hour After less than an hour. 一小时之内，不到一小时后 Example sentencesExamples We're going to have a vote within the hour on this apparently. They would have been back on the streets within the hour. The prime minister will go to the White House within the hour. If the recovery time is not spontaneous within the hour, then recovery times can vary from weeks to several months, and permanent damage may have occurred. Your order is processed within the hour when ordering during normal business hours. keep regular hours Do the same thing at the same time every day. Example sentencesExamples Mind you, I've not yet seen him - he seems to keep late hours, but has apparently been preparing for a conference in Cyprus that he is now away upon. It appears that my unidentified contact keeps late hours. I keep late hours and wake early in the morning. Dependent on the passing trade, Istanbul is open seven days a week and keeps late hours. You share order-in pizza or sandwiches from the all-night deli or you slip our for noodles at the Chinese place that keeps late hours. Origin Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French ure, via Latin from Greek hōra ‘season, hour’. noun.1 phr.
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