hour是什么意思_hour怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

hour: hour: [13] Greek hórā (a distant relative of English year) was originally a rather vague term, denoting ‘period of time, season’. In due course it came to be applied more specifically to ‘one twelfth of a day (from sunrise to sunset)’, but as this varied in length according to the time of the year, hórā was still far from being a precise unit of time. Not until the Middle Ages (when hórā had passed via Latin hora and Old French hore into English as hour) did the term become fixed to a period of sixty minutes. (The same sort of vague relationship between ‘time’ in general or ‘period of time’ and ‘fixed period’ is shown in Swedish timme, which is related to English time but means ‘hour’; in German stunde, which originally meant ‘period of time’, but now means ‘hour’; and indeed in English tide, which in Old English times meant ‘hour’ but now, insofar as it survives as a temporal term, denotes ‘season’ – as in Whitsuntide.) English horoscope [16] comes ultimately from Greek hōroskópos, a compound which meant literally ‘observer of time’ – that is, of the ‘time of birth’.
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hour (n.): mid-13c., from Old French hore "one-twelfth of a day" (sunrise to sunset), from Latin hora "hour, time, season," from Greek hora "any limited time," from PIE *yor-a-, from root *yer- "year, season" (see year). Greek hora was "a season; "the season;"" in classical times, sometimes, "a part of the day," such as morning, evening, noon, night.

The Greek astronomers apparently borrowed the notion of dividing the day into twelve parts (mentioned in Herodotus) from the Babylonians (night continued to be divided into four watches), but as the amount of daylight changed throughout the year, the hours were not fixed or of equal length. Equinoctal hours did not become established in Europe until the 4c., and as late as 16c. distinction sometimes was made between temporary (unequal) hours and sidereal (equal) ones. The h- has persisted in this word despite not being pronounced since Roman times. Replaced Old English tid, literally "time" (see tide (n.)) and stund "period of time, point of time, hour" (compare German Stunde "hour"), As a measure of distance ("the distance that can be covered in an hour") it is recorded from 1785.

词态变化

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权威造句

1. Use your lunch hour to have a nap in your chair.: 利用午饭时间坐在椅子上打个盹吧。

2. He is impatient as the first hour passes and then another.: 一个小时、两个小时过去了，他不耐烦了。

3. The appointed hour of the ceremony was drawing nearer.: 既定的典礼时间就快到了。

4. He recalled her devotion to her husband during his hour of need.: 他回忆起她在丈夫困难之时的忠贞奉献。

5. Jack took out his notes and talked for just under an hour.: 杰克掏出他的笔记，讲了将近一个小时。

近反义词

o"clock

time

相似短语

on the hour adv.准点地

to an hour 恰好(three days to an hour 恰好三天)

by the hour adv.按钟点

of the hour 目前的, 现在的, 紧急的

hour by hour 一小时一小时地

hour after hour 一小时又一小时,连续地

ring the hour 钟响报时

the rush hour 高峰时间

component hour 分潮时，元件工作小时

hour cost 小时成本

单词分析

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