| 单词 | the early hours |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe early hours P4. the early hours: the time after midnight and before dawn. Also more fully the early hours of (the) morning. Cf. small hours at small adj. and n.2 Compounds 4. ΚΠ 1852 H. K. Root People's Med. Lighthouse 116 It is detrimental to health to turn day into night; to be up till the early hours of morning. 1892 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch 18 June 1/2 A conference..which had lasted from 9 o'clock last night until the early hours of this morning. 1939 P. G. Chadwick Death Guard viii. 289 Behind black windows Brighton merrymade into the early hours, loose-hearted and undisciplined. 1966 Punch 9 Feb. 215/1 Thickening the bedroom air [by smoking] well into the early hours of the morning. 2009 I. Thomson Dead Yard iii. 34 In festively crowded front rooms West Indian mento and American R & B would be played into the early hours. < as lemmas |
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