book of hours

基本解釋

While an undergraduate he published his first book of poems hours of idleness .
他在大學(xué)讀書時(shí)，就出版了第一本詩集《閑散的時(shí)光》。
For example, "I study every day to complete the N quantity" rather than "Every day I read the book N hours of learning.
比如，“我每天要完成N的學(xué)習(xí)量”，而不是“我每天看N個(gè)小時(shí)的學(xué)習(xí)書”。
Robin brought champagne. I had a fresh croissant from Belle Epicurean, an authentic French bakery in Seattle, a good book and 36 hours of rhythmic, rocking motion before I reached Los Angeles.
蘿賓拿來了香檳，我從西雅圖最地道的法式麪包房買了新鮮的羊角麪包，帶了一本好書，期待著到達(dá)洛杉磯前36個(gè)小時(shí)行車中有節(jié)奏的晃動(dòng)。

This remarkable trio from the Dutch city of Nijmegen was probably in their late teens when the Duc hired them to produce the Book of Hours, probably in 1405, a work that required three or four years of their brushwork.
FORBES: The iPad, Circa 1400
Mr Bezos says that this enables Amazon to have a book ready to ship within two hours of an order being placed online.
ECONOMIST: Book publishing in America

a book used esp in monasteries during the Middle Ages that contained the prayers and offices of the canonical hours