喜樂美語
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    nA2

    /nuːn/

    12 o'clock in the daytime; the middle of the day on the clock.

    正午；中午十二點

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

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Picture the clock hands both pointing straight up, the sun at its highest, shadows at their shortest. It is one exact point on the clock — twelve in the daytime — not a stretch of time. That is why English says 'at noon', the way it says 'at 7 o'clock'.

可以想成：時針分針同時指向正上方，太陽爬到最高，影子最短的那一刻。它是鐘面上一個精確的點——白天的十二點——不是一段…更多收起可以想成：時針分針同時指向正上方，太陽爬到最高，影子最短的那一刻。它是鐘面上一個精確的點——白天的十二點——不是一段時間。所以英文說 at noon，就像說 at 7 o'clock 一樣用 at。這也是它跟「中午那段時間」的差別所在。

原始詞典資料10 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。

Noonname詞源 1

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    A surname.

Noonnoun詞源 2

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    An ethnic people who occupy western Senegal.

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    The language of these people.

noonnoun詞源 1/nuːn/

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    The time of day when the Sun seems to reach its highest point in the sky; solar noon.

    • On Saturdays, I love to have a lie-in until noon.
    • The race is due to start at noon sharp.
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    The time of day when the Sun seems to reach its highest point in the sky; solar noon.

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    archaicThe corresponding time in the middle of the night; midnight.

    • So the sad mother at the noon of night / From bloody Memphis stole her silent flight […].
    • When night was at its noon I heard a voice chanting the Koran in sweetest accents […].
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    obsoleteThe ninth hour of the day counted from sunrise; around three o'clock in the afternoon.

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    The highest point; culmination.

    • In the very noon of that brilliant life which was destined to be so soon, and so fatally, overshadowed.

noonverb詞源 1/nuːn/

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    To relax or sleep around midday.

    • We presently turned just aside from the trail into an episode of beautiful prairie, one of a succession along the plateau at the crest of the range. At this height of about five thousand feet, the snows remain until June. In this fair, oval, forest-circled prairie of my nooning, the grass was long and succulent, as if it grew in the bed of a drained lake.
    • Between six and nine we made ten miles, which was plenty for a horse carrying triple—man, woman, and armor; then we stopped for a long nooning under some trees by a limpid brook.

noonnoun詞源 2/nuːn/

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    The letter ن in the Arabic script.

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。