on the hour

基本解釋

On the hour-long drive home, nobody said a word.
在開車回家的一小時車程中，一家人一言不發(fā)。
The fence provided an outfield wall for Wiffle-ball games, and the bells chiming on the hour reminded me to get out of bed (not that it did much good).
教堂的圍欄是我們打棒球時的護欄，教堂的鐘聲提醒我們該上床入睡（并不是說這有多好）。
Smartly-dressed young executives devouring business manuals land at its airport on the hour, every hour.
每時每刻都有衣冠楚楚的年輕企業(yè)家在機場著陸，前來吞噬這座城市的生產(chǎn)力。

"Oh,yes." "Well,we get on the job right away. And in one hour, even less than one hour, we lose the fix.
How do you know something like this doesn't happen every single night, every hour on the hour, ? every minute, every second?
你怎么知道這樣的事,每一晚，每個小時，每分每秒都沒有發(fā)生？
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If I place my container of gas on the table here, and I come back an hour later, the pressure needs to be the same when I come back Otherwise it's not equilibrium.
如果我把裝氣體的容器放在桌子上，一小時以后我再回來時,氣體的壓強應該是不變的,否則它就不是平衡的。
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Smartly-dressed young executives devouring business manuals land at its airport on the hour, every hour.
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