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noon n.正午；中午；全盛期；顶点 (1) 正午，烈日当空。(2) 我们要在正午前赶到那儿。(3) 她每天中午主持四十五分钟的新闻广播。(4) 将近中午时我们把工作做完了。 You can also call noon midday, and its opposite is midnight — also twelve o'clock, but falling in the middle of the night. The word noon comes from a Latin root, nona hora, or "ninth hour." In medieval times, noon fell at three PM, nine hours after a monk's traditional rising hour of six o'clock in the morning. Over time, as noon came to be synonymous in English with midday, its timing changed to twelve PM.

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英 [nuːn] 美 [nuːn] (1) At noon, the sun is high in the sky.(2) We need to be there before noon.(3) She anchors a 45-minute news show at noon.(4) We were through with the work towards noon. Noon is twelve o'clock in the middle of the day. Many people sit down to eat lunch right at noon. 1[N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]See also:high noon；正午；中午 Noon is twelve o'clock in the middle of the day.   [oft prep N]The long day of meetings started at noon...会议接连不断的漫长一天从中午开始。Our branches are open from 9am to 5pm during the week and until 12 noon on Saturdays.我们的分行每周一至周五上午9点到下午5点营业，周六营业到中午12点。2[ADJ 形容词]正午的；中午的 Noon means happening or appearing in the middle part of the day.   [ADJ n]The noon sun was fierce...正午的阳光火辣辣的。He expected the transfer to go through by today's noon deadline.他希望转账在今天中午的最后期限之前完成。3  morning, noon, and night→see: morning；

英语单词	noon
英美音标	英 [nuːn] 美 [nuːn]
中文释义	n.正午；中午；全盛期；顶点
英语例句	(1) At noon, the sun is high in the sky. (2) We need to be there before noon. (3) She anchors a 45-minute news show at noon. (4) We were through with the work towards noon.
中文例句	(1) 正午，烈日当空。 (2) 我们要在正午前赶到那儿。 (3) 她每天中午主持四十五分钟的新闻广播。 (4) 将近中午时我们把工作做完了。
vocabulary简明	Noon is twelve o'clock in the middle of the day. Many people sit down to eat lunch right at noon.
vocabulary扩展	You can also call noon midday, and its opposite is midnight — also twelve o'clock, but falling in the middle of the night. The word noon comes from a Latin root, nona hora, or "ninth hour." In medieval times, noon fell at three PM, nine hours after a monk's traditional rising hour of six o'clock in the morning. Over time, as noon came to be synonymous in English with midday, its timing changed to twelve PM.
柯林斯解释	1 [N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]See also:high noon ；正午；中午 Noon is twelve o'clock in the middle of the day. [oft prep N] The long day of meetings started at noon... 会议接连不断的漫长一天从中午开始。 Our branches are open from 9am to 5pm during the week and until 12 noon on Saturdays. 我们的分行每周一至周五上午9点到下午5点营业，周六营业到中午12点。 2 [ADJ 形容词]正午的；中午的 Noon means happening or appearing in the middle part of the day. [ADJ n] The noon sun was fierce... 正午的阳光火辣辣的。 He expected the transfer to go through by today's noon deadline. 他希望转账在今天中午的最后期限之前完成。 3 morning, noon, and night→see: morning ；

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