| 单词 | long hour |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslong hour long hour n. now rare any of the late hours of the day denoted by large numbers, esp. midnight; cf. small hours at small adj. and n.2 Compounds 4. ΘΚΠ the world > time > day and night > night > [noun] > midnight midnighteOE middle nighteOE noontide1568 noon1605 witching hour1762 long hour1807 midnight1813 midnight-tide1918 zero hour1939 1511 Kalender of Shepherdes (new ed.) xlii. sig. R.iii But yet serue the lynes as the chaungynge of the sterre that sygnyfyeth mydnyght, and consequently the other houres, for the longe houres serueth to a moneth, and the small to .xv. dayes. 1807 E. Montague Demon of Sicily IV. xv. 6 Now the long hour of midnight was told in harsh sullen notes by the abbey clock. 1865 C. Kingsley Hereward II. vii. 106 That night the monks of Peterborough prayed in the minster till the long hours passed into the short. 1932 M. Sutton Haunted Attic xxi. 194 The kitchen clock, striking the long hour of midnight, interrupted him. < as lemmas |
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