核心畫面
You can think of hour as one fixed 60-minute block of time — one of the 24 slices a day is cut into. Everything else grows from this idea of a marked-off chunk of time: a chunk you spend, a chunk a shop is open, a chunk that matters.
可以把 hour 想成一段固定的六十分鐘——一天被切成的二十四塊裡的其中一塊。其他所有意思都從這個「被切出來、量好的…更多收起
可以把 hour 想成一段固定的六十分鐘——一天被切成的二十四塊裡的其中一塊。其他所有意思都從這個「被切出來、量好的時間段」長出來：你花掉的一段、店家營業的一段、舉足輕重的那一刻。原始詞典資料7 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。
hournoun/aʊə/
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timeA unit of time of one twenty-fourth of a day (sixty minutes).
- Holonyms: day < week < megasecond < fortnight < month < year < gigasecond < century < kiloannum, kiloyear, millennium < terasecond < mega-annum, megayear < petasecond < giga-annum, gigayear < exasecond < zettasecond < yottasecond < ronnasecond < quettasecond
- Meronyms: quectosecond < rontosecond < yoctosecond < zeptosecond < attosecond < femtosecond < picosecond < nanosecond < microsecond < millisecond < centisecond < decisecond < second < decasecond < minute < hectosecond < kilosecond
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A season, moment, or time.
- Don't come home ever again at this unearthly hour.
- From childhood's hour I have not been / As others were; I have not seen / As others saw; I could not bring / My passions from a common spring.
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The time.
- The hour grows late and I must go home.
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governmentmilitarypoliticsUsed after a two-digit hour and a two-digit minute to indicate time.
- By 1300 hours the position was fairly clear.
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The amount of labor demanded by an employer in terms of time.
- I asked my manager for more hours.
- The shop wasn't giving me enough hours so I started searching for a second job.
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ChristianityThe set times of prayer, the canonical hours, the offices or services prescribed for these, or a book containing them.
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A distance that can be traveled in one hour.
- This place is an hour away from where I live.
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。