| 单词 | the wee hours |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe wee (small) hours f. the wee (small) hours = small hours at small adj. and n.2 Compounds 4. colloquial. ΘΚΠ the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > morning > [noun] > early morning > early hour(s) little hours1540 short hour1837 the wee (small) hours1849 1787 R. Burns Death & Dr. Hornbook xxxi, in Poems (new ed.) 65 The auld kirk-hammer strak the bell Some wee short hour ayont the twal.] 1849 C. Brontë Shirley II. ii. 73 She followed the steps of the night, on its pathway of stars, far into the ‘wee sma' hours ayont the twal’. 1859 F. W. Farrar Julian Home viii. 97 Often would he be beguiled by his studies into the ‘wee small’ hours of night. a1891 H. Melville To Major John Gention in Compl. Wks. (1924) XIII. 366 In the wee hours..how affluent hast thou been on that theme. 1932 ‘L. G. Gibbon’ Sunset Song iv. 232 They'd another long dram, and they argued far to the wee, small hours. 1949 ‘P. Michaels’ This Perverse Generation v. 44 No one has a persistent inner compulsion to..talk about silly things in crowded, stuffy, little night-club rooms at wee hours of the morning. 1966 ‘H. MacDiarmid’ Company I've Kept viii. 193 We walked back..in the ‘wee sma' 'oors’ of the following morning. 1979 United States 1980–1 (Penguin Travel Guides) 278 Several acts keep the place hopping from dinner time until the wee hours. < as lemmas |
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