But people are often reproached for unpunctuality when their only fault is cutting things fine.

但有些人不准时常常因为掐所致，他们常常受到责备。

I must have lost track of the time.

我一定是忘了。

It was an hour before the first shark hit him.

这时候是第一条鲨鱼来袭击它的前一个。

And the wise animal pulling the cab moved as usual. He was at home here.

机灵的马知道他该走的路，开始按计算他的步子，始终沿着路的右边走。

It was Jordan Baker; she often called me up at this hour because the uncertainty of her own movements between hotels and clubs and private houses made her hard to find in any other way.

是乔丹·贝克。她时常在这个打电话给我，因为她出入大饭店、俱乐部私人住宅，行踪不定，我很难用任其他办法找到她。

On Egdon there was no absolute hour of the day.

在埃格敦荒原，没有绝对的。

The gentleman who uttered the cries was evidently a belated Mormon.

这位叫喊的人看样子一定是个误了上车的摩门教徒。

But night came at last, and every time the clock struck, the sisters, still sitting on either side of the bed, looked at each other with brightening eyes, for each hour brought help nearer.

但夜终于来了，每次打，静坐在病床两边的姐妹都用亮晶晶的眼睛相互看一下，因为每一个都会使援助靠近一步。

He always came to table under precisely the same conditions, and not only at the same hour but at the same minute.

他每天准时吃饭，不仅不变，简直一分都不差。

" At" is generally used in reference to specific times on the clock or specific points of time in the day.

" At" 通常用于指特定的时间，或者是一天中特定的时间。

Then by lunchtime they would all be sold. By now his restaurant ought to be full of people. But not today!

然后到午饭时分，这些菜都会买完。这个他的餐厅本来是宾客盈门的。但是今天却不是！

But the idea of returning to that room where she had spent so many nightmare hours was repulsive to her.

可是一想起要回到那间房里，那间她已经待过许多恶梦般的房里，她就厌烦得很。

Two members of the Accidental Magic Reversal Squad were dispatched to Privet Drive a few hours ago.

几个以前，偶发事件逆转部的两名成员奉命到了女贞路。

Even if I sleep twenty minutes or a half an hour it is good.

哪怕我能睡上二十分或者半个，也是好的。

Electric bells and speaking-tubes afforded communication with the lower stories; while on the mantel stood an electric clock, precisely like that in Mr. Fogg's bedchamber, both beating the same second at the same instant.

里头还装着电铃传话筒，可以跟地下室二层楼的各个屋子联系。壁炉上面有个电挂，它跟福克先生卧室里的挂对好了。两个准确地同时敲响，一秒也不差。

It is so late — why, it is actually ten o'clock, " as the clock with coughing and tinny thumps marked the hour. " Carreen should have been asleep long ago.

已经十了，你看，" 时恰好咳嗽似的闷声闷气地敲着。" 卡琳早就该睡了。

For an hour the old man had been seeing black spots before his eyes and the sweat salted his eyes and salted the cut over his eye and on his forehead.

老人看见眼前有些黑子，已经有一个了，汗水中的盐份沤着他的眼睛，沤着眼睛上方脑门上的伤口。

It is not the hand's fault and you have been many hours with the fish.

不能怪这只手不好，你跟这鱼已经打了好几个的交道啦。

He rested for what he believed to be two hours.

他认为自己已经歇了两个。

Perhaps in an hour I will see him.

也许一个内我就能见到它。