It was only in the centuries after "hour" first appeared in print in English that people slowly began to think of an hour as a specific length of time.
在hour第一次出现在书面英语中的几百年后，人们才慢慢开始把一个hour看成一段特定长度的时间。
In American prime-time television, advertising interruptions added up to 18 minutes an hour last year, up from 13 minutes an hour in 1992, according to Parks Associates.
在美国，电视的黄金时间，广告的干扰在从1992年的每小时13分钟增加到了去年的每小时18分钟，根据Parks Associates的统计数据。
In English the word appears first in 1225 and at that time an Englishman's understanding of hour would have been the hour for waking or the hour for the mid-day meal.
这个词在1225年首次出现在英语里，那时，英国人对hour的理解就是，醒来的时辰（hour），中餐的时辰（hour）。
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