| 词汇 | of the hour |
| 释义 | of the hourof the hour NOWimportant at a particular time, especially the present time 某一刻〔尤指目前〕 one of the burning questions of the hour 目前急需解决的问题之一 the hero/man of the hour (=someone who does something very brave, is very successful etc at a particular time) 当时的英雄/当时得意的人 Examples from the Corpus of the hour• By the end of the hour interview we had found that we liked each other.• It seems to me that he was waylaid and killed round about a quarter or half of the hour past six.• Yeltsin was the hero of the hour.• Party chairman Chris Patten, the tragic hero of the hour, arrived shortly after 11.00 for a lengthy post-mortem.• You ought to be the man of the hour.• That's what makes Bush the man of the hour, for these are indisputably good times.• It was only a question of the hour.• They were the pioneers of a new human experiment in the West and seemed the men and women of the hour. → of the hour at hour(6) |
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