off-hour
非工作时间,非工作时段,闲暇时间,不适时
Definitions
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- : an hour or other period when a person is not at a job: I spend my off-hours reading.
- : a period outside of rush hours or greatest activity: I travel by subway during the off-hours.
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- : of, relating to, or during an off-hour: The off-hour traffic will be lighter.
Examples
So here I am in my requisite Lululemon pants, grunting along to an old hip-hop song at a most ungodly hour.
Although the blood-spattered offices will be off-limits, staff have vowed to continue producing the magazine.
A passing off-duty school safety officer named Fred Lucas said that he had been told the man was a drug dealer.
An hour later, he scored a second flight to Johannesburg for $380.
The NOPD fired Knight in 1973 for stealing lumber from a construction site as an off-duty cop.
The night wore on, and the clock downstairs was striking the hour of two when she suddenly awakened.
The sound of my step shall make your heart jump; a look from me shall make you dumb for an hour.
A far-off volley rumbled over the plain, and a few birds stirred uneasily among the trees.
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.