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hour

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n. 小时；钟头；课时；…点钟
n. (Hour)人名；(法)乌尔；(柬)胡

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Zircle reported the attack when she arrived in Nulato, Alaska, in the early hours of the morning.

On February 14th, the self-driving car, travelling at 2 miles per hour, pulled out in front of a public bus going 15 miles per hour.

Subjects who learned the games in the morning lost some skills when they played again 12 hours later.

Rewards can be flexible working hours.

They want to go to bed on regular hours.

That was nothing though, compared to Germans, Italians, and the French, who stayed up around an hour and a half later on various days throughout the summer to watch the Cup.

Russians also get up an hour later on International Women's Day, the day for treating and celebrating female relatives.

Clock-timers organize their day by blocks of minutes and hours.

He was trapped under a beam about 10 feet below the surface for nearly an hour and a half.

How do you stay focused through the entire hour?

It had to be 30 to 40 miles an hour.

It's about an hour outside Seoul, built on reclaimed tidal flats along the Yellow Sea, There's a Coast Guard building and a tall trade tower, as well as a park, golf course and university.

One of the press operators arrived an hour and a half late.

Twenty pounds an hour, and the instructor says I'll need about30 to 40 lessons in total.

The summer after 7th grade, students spend three weeks on a college campus studying advanced math for seven hours a day.

In these groups, which came out of an Eastern European tradition of developing young talent, professors teach promising K-12 students advanced mathematics for several hours after school or on weekends.

What a waste of money! In return for an average of ~44,000 of debt, students get an average of only 14 hours of lecture and tutorial time a week in Britain.

They slept six hours a night or less.

The practice of clocking in for an eight-hour workday is a leftover from the days of the Industrial Revolution, as reflected in the then-popular saying, Eight hours labor, eight hours recreation, eight hours rest.

The conditions creating the stress are long hours, unrealistic demands and deadlines, and work-life conflict.

Less than an hour away by snowmobile, Chinese labourers have updated the Great Wall Station, a vital part of China's plan to operate five bases on Antarctica, complete with an indoor badminton court and sleeping quarters for 150 people.

And 29%, the invisible risk group, scored high on three in particular: They spent five hours a day or more on electronic devices.

Americans are working longer and harder hours than ever before.

After six months, the employees who participated in ROWE reported reduced work-family conflict and a better sense of control of their time, and they were getting a full hour of extra sleep each night.

83% of workers say they're stressed about their jobs, nearly 50% say work-related stress is interfering with their sleep, and 60% use their smartphones to check in with work outside of normal working hours.

8 hours at work daily, and the majority of working professionals spend additional hours checking in with work during evenings, weekends and even vacations.

on average, only 12 to 14 hours a week studying and many were skating through their semesters without doing a significant amount of reading and writing.

Located only a few hours apart, The University of Tennessee and Tennessee State are worth comparing.

Given the high price of room and board and the closeness of the school to his family, he chose to live at home and worked between 30 and 40 hours a week while taking a full class schedule.

According to Harry Vallentine, a Canadian engineer who is researching modern steam technology, a special tank measuring 2 by 10 metres could store over 750 kilowatt hours of energy as high pressure steam, enough to pull a two-cart train for an hour or so.

After six months, the employees who participated in ROWE reported reduced work-family conflict and a better sense of control of their time, and they were getting a full hour of extra sleep each night.

Other studies have found that even infants in East Asia sleep about an hour less than European infants, so we're trying to figure out how culture shapes the way you sleep.

We're still in the exploratory stages of this project, although what's noteworthy is that East Asians on average sleep about an hour and half less each night than North Americans do.

A 90-year-old has been awarded "woman of the year" for being Britain's oldest full-time employee-still working 40 hours a week.

A few hours before, I'd been at home in Hong gonk, with its choking smog.

After hours in the cold and wet, he reached inside and pulled the wallet out hoping to find some id so he could contact the driver, only to discover it contained ￡400 in notes, with another ￡50 in spare change beside it.

After spotting a wallet on the front seat inside a parked car with its window down, he stood guard in the rain for about two hours waiting for the owner to return.

An hour later, I woke up suddenly with the solution clearly in mind.

And it took me hours to find a parking space.

Anxious all the time, I was unable to keep focused for more than an hour at a time.

Approximate travel times: windermere-20 minutes, Kendal-25 minutes, Lancaster-45 minutes, Manchester-1 hour 30 minutes.

Babies need a lot of rest: most of them sleep about 18 hours a day! adults need about eight hours.

Before I knew it an hour had passed and it was time to move on to lunch.

Boy, news travels fast around here! I only got the orders a couple of hours ago.

But the amount of time spent in reading each session has declined, from closer to an hour or more to closer to a half hour per session.

But the new national sleep foundation survey found that 35% of 10- to 12-year-olds get only seven or eight hours.

By analysing the numbers, it found the average mother works 119 hours a week, 40 of which would usually be paid at a standard rate and 79 hours as overtime.

By the time I got home, I only had a few hours to do my homework, and I had to do it right away.

Even though you might feel more comfortable going with a friend or partner, the office hour will go better if it's just you and the professor.

Finally, after more than an hour in the dark and the icy cold, simon had to make a decision.

For most school-age children, ten hours is ideal.

For those who fly to Guilin, it's only an hour away by car and offers all the scenery of the better-known city.

Great! One more thing, can you tell me your opening hours?

Guests staying at plaza hotel will be given meal tickets worth $36 once they have produced 10 watt hours of electricity.

Guests will have to produce at least 10 watt hours of electricity - roughly 15 minutes of cycling for someone of average fitness.

He spent much of his childhood in France where he spent many hours each day outdoors painting pictures.

How many hours do you work?

How many hours of sleep do 11-year-olds need every day?

I am so tired of trying all those hours to work.

I looked quickly at the clock, the show starts in one hour; plenty of time! I drank the rest of my coffee and went to take a shower.

I need to prepare class notes and hold office hours.

I rarely had more than four hours of sleep.

I used to drive two hours to work each way.

If you can't make the official office hours, most professors are willing to make individual appointments to help you out.

In the first move of its kind, all travelers will be forced to stand on both sides of escalators on the London underground as part of a plan to increase capacity at the height of the rush hour.

In the new trail, in addition to one escalator banning walking in rush hours, the other "up" escalators will be used for standing only and a mix of walking and standing.

It enables small-scale farmers to harvest 175 pounds of green vegetables per hour—a huge improvement over harvesting just a few dozen pounds by hand—suddenly making it possible for the little guys to compete with large farms of California.

It flies using a 23-gallon tank of gas and bums 5 gallons per hour in the air.

It lasts three hours each time.

It really annoys me when Kate calls her friends during office hours.

It restarts several times within an hour, and I can't save what I have typed.

Keep in mind that in a fifteen-minute office hour which is how long these things usually last, two or three questions are usually the most you'll have time to discuss.

Minimum quiet hours in all campus residences are 11:00 pm to 8:00 am Sunday through Thursday.

Mothers' working hours should be largely reduced.

My brothers can no doubt remember hours spent cleaning the house.

Naomi and Steve met every other week and spent hours together.

No one had seen them for hours, and my colleagues and I were worried.

Not more than a half-hour walk, I thought.

Now we still have two hours.

Office hours almost always go better if you bring a few specific questions to the meeting.

On a summer evening in beijing in 2008, all those long, hard hours of work and commitment finally bore fruit.

Over the years, Parisian cafes have fallen victim to changes in the French lifestyle-longer working hours, a fast food boom and a younger generation's desire to spend more time at home.

Plus, having the doctor tell us to get two and a half hours of exercise a week doesn't really help our motivation much.

Quiet hours on Friday and Saturday nights are 1:00 am to 8:00 am.

Set your alarm clock an hour early and push yourself to work out! You will feel energized all day long.

So hoof on over to an office hour and have some one-on-one face time with someone who'll help you master the material and improve your grade, to boot.

Some complain of unfriendly coworkers and feel sad for eight-hour workweeks devoted to tasks they hate.

Students who violate quiet hours are subject to a fine of $25.

Swimming pools, wine tasting, and pink sunsets at normal evening hours, not 4 in the afternoon filled the weekend, but the best part- particularly to my taste, dulled by months of cold--weather root vegetables--was a 7 a.m. adventure to the Sarasot

That's a quarter-hour more you could be sleeping if you bought a coffee maker with a timer.

The battle lasts little more than half an hour, in which time around 50, 000 kilograms of tomatoes have been thrown at anyone or anything that moves, runs, or fights back.

The café is located upstairs in building 1 and is open daily until one hour before pacific science center closes.

The fish will go bad within hours.

The microorganisms from our bodies grow uncontrollably on surfaces of the international space station, so astronauts spend hours cleaning them up each week.

The report said they also faced pressure to respond to messages at all hours of the day—especially at secondary school when more youngsters have mobile phones.

The study looked at the range of jobs mothers do, as well as the hours they are working, to determine the figure.

The team left 100 wax worms on a commercial polyethylene shopping bag for 12 hours, and the worms consumed and broke down about 92 milligrams, or almost 3% of it.

The transition, which flew at 1, 400 feet for eight minutes last month, can reach around 70 miles per hour on the road and 115 in the air.

There's nothing that ticks off a professor more than making him-or herself available for a custom office hour only to find that you don't care enough to come on time.

They stay open for longer hours.

Turning up at school for practice hours before anyone else had to be there.

Two hours later, back at my house, I heard a knock on the door.

We do give you on the job training, once every month during normal hours.

We have been waiting here for more than two hours.

When people try to interrupt you, have set hours planned and let them know to come back during that time or that you'll find them then.

With all she had been through in her ten years, this was the hour of true triumph.

With that, I spent eight to ten hours a day with Joe in the hospital, doing anything and everything I could to ease his discomfort.

Written accounts from the 18th and 19th centuries described flocks so large that they the sky for hours.

Yeah! catherine was supposed to go with me, but she may have to work extra hours tomorrow.

You can keep your head clear for 4-10 hours after exercise.

The growth in public money for academic research has speeded the process: federal research grants rose fourfold between 1960 and 1990, but faculty teaching hours fell by half as research took its toll.

First two hours , now three hours—this is how far in advance authorities are recommending people show up to catch a domestic flight , at least at some major U.airports with increasingly massive security lines.

Mr.Roth has three community-college students enrolled in a work-placement program, with a starting wage of $13 an hour that rises to $17 after two years.

Runners range from four year old to grandparents; their times range from Andrew Baddeley's world record 13 minutes 48 seconds up to an hour.