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afternoons

/af-ter-noonz, ahf-/US // ˌæf tərˈnunz, ˌɑf- //UK // (ˌɑːftəˈnuːnz) //

下午,午后,午间

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Definitions

adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : in or during any or every afternoon: He slept late and worked afternoons.

Examples

  • In the second season she spends afternoons rehearsing for a musical and buying an unlicensed gun for her clone friend.

  • I spend my afternoons reading and exercising or going for walks.

  • He had sex with hustlers in the afternoons, he said, so he could concentrate on conversation with friends in the evening.

  • I could still see those afternoons in the Manchester TV studios when I was a kid with a camera.

  • But in the next instant, all the other timepieces ticked on into the first of the sunny afternoons the boy will never see.

  • There were few afternoons when a ring of spectators did not surround the table, breathlessly watching the champions.

  • Somebody will give more, of course, for this fine tea gown to put on hot afternoons.

  • The men were called into the different regiments mornings, noons and afternoons, until I wondered if it would ever stop.

  • On several afternoons we made further trips to the deep woods after wild-flower plants, and set them in along our brook.

  • But Kreps studied her mornings and afternoons and into the night, and day after day it went on, and she bothered him.