| 单词 | small hours |
| 释义 | > as lemmassmall hours small hours the early hours after midnight denoted by the small numbers, one, two, etc.; cf. the wee (small) hours at wee adj. f. ΚΠ 1718 A. Ramsay Elegies on Maggy Johnston, John Cowper & Lucky Wood (ed. 2) 18 To the sma Hours we aft sat still. 1721 A. Ramsay Poems I. 31 (note) The Nether-bow Porter, to whom Lucky's Customers were often obliged for opening the Port for them,when they staid out 'till the small Hours after Midnight. 1836 C. Dickens Sketches by Boz 2nd Ser. 121 He invited friends home, who used to come at ten o'clock, and begin to get happy about the small hours. 1865 W. G. Palgrave Narr. Journey through Arabia II. 335 Conversation is prolonged to midnight or even to the small hours. 1953 P. G. Wodehouse Let. 4 May in Yours, Plum (1990) viii. 181 We leave the french windows..open at night, and some time during the small hours Bill trots out. 2005 C. Alliott Not that Kind of Girl xviii. 269 Having to escort yet another loved-up inebriate home in the small hours, and departed. < as lemmas |
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