喜樂美語
  1. 1nA2/nuːn/正午；中午十二點

    12 o'clock in the daytime; the middle of the day on the clock.

    示範例句 · Example

    We left home at noon and arrived at the museum before two.

    逐字我們在正午離開家，並且在兩點前到達博物館。

    「noon」是白天的「十二點整」——時鐘正中央、太陽通常最高的那一刻。英文常說 at noon、before noon、by noon；它指的是一個鐘點，中文「中午」有時指比較長的一段時間（大概十一點到一點），範圍更寬一點。midday 意思很近，也常指白天正中；midnight 則是晚上十二點。核心畫面可以想成「白天正中央的那一點」。

    常見搭配

    • at noon

      在正午；在中午十二點

      at 12 o'clock in the daytime

      The meeting starts at noon.

    • before noon / by noon

      正午之前／到正午為止

      earlier than 12 o'clock daytime / no later than that time

      Please be back before noon.

    • 12 noon

      中午十二點

      12 o'clock in the daytime (said with the number)

      We met at 12 noon outside the library.

    • from noon to …

      從正午到…

      starting at 12 daytime and continuing until a later time

      The shop is open from noon to 5 p.m.

    • high noon

      正午；日正當中

      exactly the middle of the day, when the sun is high

      At high noon the sun was very strong on the playground.

    意思相近

    middaynoontime12 o'clock

    意思相反

    midnight

core核心畫面

Picture the clock hands both pointing straight up, the sun at its highest, shadows at their shortest. It is one exact point on the clock — twelve in the daytime — not a stretch of time. That is why English says 'at noon', the way it says 'at 7 o'clock'.

可以想成：時針分針同時指向正上方，太陽爬到最高，影子最短的那一刻。它是鐘面上一個精確的點——白天的十二點——不是一段時間。所以英文說 at noon，就像說 at 7 o'clock 一樣用 at。這也是它跟「中午那段時間」的差別所在。

同家族的字

意思相近

middaynoontime12 o'clock

意思相反

midnight

原始詞典資料10 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Noonname詞源 1

  • 1

    A surname.

Noonnoun詞源 2

  • 1

    An ethnic people who occupy western Senegal.

  • 2

    The language of these people.

noonnoun詞源 1/nuːn/

  • 1

    The time of day when the Sun seems to reach its highest point in the sky; solar noon.

    • On Saturdays, I love to have a lie-in until noon.
    • The race is due to start at noon sharp.
  • 2

    The time of day when the Sun seems to reach its highest point in the sky; solar noon.

  • 3

    archaicThe corresponding time in the middle of the night; midnight.

    • So the sad mother at the noon of night / From bloody Memphis stole her silent flight […].
    • When night was at its noon I heard a voice chanting the Koran in sweetest accents […].
  • 4

    obsoleteThe ninth hour of the day counted from sunrise; around three o'clock in the afternoon.

  • 5

    The highest point; culmination.

    • In the very noon of that brilliant life which was destined to be so soon, and so fatally, overshadowed.

noonverb詞源 1/nuːn/

  • 1

    To relax or sleep around midday.

    • We presently turned just aside from the trail into an episode of beautiful prairie, one of a succession along the plateau at the crest of the range. At this height of about five thousand feet, the snows remain until June. In this fair, oval, forest-circled prairie of my nooning, the grass was long and succulent, as if it grew in the bed of a drained lake.
    • Between six and nine we made ten miles, which was plenty for a horse carrying triple—man, woman, and armor; then we stopped for a long nooning under some trees by a limpid brook.

noonnoun詞源 2/nuːn/

  • 1

    The letter ن in the Arabic script.

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