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Take an hour and use it as the unit you count in. Something lands on every hour mark — a bus, a news bulletin, a check on a patient. Once the hour is your unit, it can also become the unit you are paid in: so much for each hour that goes by.
可以想成：把「一小時」當成計數的單位。時間軸上每一個整點都落下一件事——一班公車、一次新聞播報、一次查房。一旦小時變…更多收起
可以想成：把「一小時」當成計數的單位。時間軸上每一個整點都落下一件事——一班公車、一次新聞播報、一次查房。一旦小時變成了單位，它也可以變成算錢的單位：每過一小時就算一次錢。這個字就在這兩件事之間：多久發生一次，以及每小時值多少。原始詞典資料4 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。
hourlyadj/ˈaʊ̯əli/
- 1
Occurring every hour.
- There are hourly express buses.
- The [four] motors have a continuous rating of 144 h.p. and an hourly output of 180 h.p., giving a total hourly rating of 720 h.p. compared with the six-motored "Arlecchino's" 994 h.p.
- 2
Unsalaried, paid by the hour; (by extension) blue-collar.
hourlyadv/ˈaʊ̯əli/
- 1
At intervals of an hour.
- Express buses depart hourly.
- Commencement of a two-hourly service pattern by GWR marked the return of regular services to Okehampton for the first time since their withdrawal in 1972. There are plans to extend this to hourly.
hourlynoun/ˈaʊ̯əli/
- 1
Something produced each hour.
- She never reads her hourly report, but let her hourlies be fifteen minutes late and she raises a ruckus.
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。