o'clock

adv

• ① …点钟(★指「几点几分」时,通常把o'clock省略)
  • It is ten (minutes) past nine now.现在是九点十分。
  • "What time is it?"－"It's 4 o'clock."「现在几点钟?」「四点钟。」
  • at two o'clock in the morning在早上两点钟
  • from two o'clock to three从两点到三点
  • She left between three and four o'clock.她在三、四点钟之间离去。
  • He went to bed before [after] eleven o'clock.他在十一点之前[后]就寝。
  • He went by the nine o'clock train.他搭九点钟的火车去(★写作by the 9: 00 train时,读法相同)。

• ② (空战等以钟面为据所定出的目标的位置或方位)…点钟的位置[of the clock的缩写]
  • a fighter plane approaching at nine o'clock.一架由九点钟方向接近的战斗机。