喜樂美語
  1. 1

    A half-hour is a stretch of time thirty minutes long. From two o’clock to half past two is one half-hour. People say a half-hour wait, a half-hour lesson, a half-hour programme on TV. Though actually, when we talk about waiting or arriving, the everyday phrase is often “half an hour” (with an): I’ll be there in half an hour. The half-hour likes to sit in front of another noun, like a label: a half-hour meeting. Both mean the same thirty minutes. On clocks and , the half-hour is also the :30 mark — the 10:30 train sits on the half-hour after ten.

    半小時；半個鐘頭

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組成half- + hour.

同家族的字

  • hourthe second piece: sixty minutes; a half-hour is thirty
  • half-hourlybuilt from this word: happening every half-hour

原始詞典資料2 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

half-hournoun

  • 1

    A period of time equal to thirty minutes, half an hour.

  • 2

    The time of thirty minutes past any particular hour.

    • The great clock of the castle sounded the half-hour—he had another half-hour [sense 1] to wait, ere the approach of Count Deckendorff; […]
    • India’s half-hour zone dates back to colonial rule of India and the era when ever-faster steamships and trains were shrinking the world.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。