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h-hour

/eych-ouuhr, -ou-er/US // ˈeɪtʃˌaʊər, -ˌaʊ ər //

小时

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Military.

    • : the time, usually unspecified, set for the beginning of a planned attack.

Examples

  • So here I am in my requisite Lululemon pants, grunting along to an old hip-hop song at a most ungodly hour.

  • I remember H. Jon Benjamin told me it was a way-too-late apology for Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

  • An hour later, he scored a second flight to Johannesburg for $380.

  • In a 2009 interview, Church apostle Dallin H. Oaks held that the Church “does not have a position” on that point.

  • He was released within the hour without a bond on his own recognizance.

  • The night wore on, and the clock downstairs was striking the hour of two when she suddenly awakened.

  • G was a gamester, who had but ill-luck; H was a Hunter, who hunted a buck.

  • The sound of my step shall make your heart jump; a look from me shall make you dumb for an hour.

  • Words are often everywhere as the minute-hands of the soul, more important than even the hour-hands of action.

  • After an hour, however, he reached this decision: He would not go to or call up Mrs. Merley.