on the hour

基本解释

On the hour-long drive home, nobody said a word.
在开车回家的一小时车程中，一家人一言不发。
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).
教堂的围栏是我们打棒球时的护栏，教堂的钟声提醒我们该上床入睡（并不是说这有多好）。
Smartly-dressed young executives devouring business manuals land at its airport on the hour, every hour.
每时每刻都有衣冠楚楚的年轻企业家在机场着陆，前来吞噬这座城市的生产力。

"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?
你怎么知道这样的事,每一晚，每个小时，每分每秒都没有发生？
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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.
如果我把装气体的容器放在桌子上，一小时以后我再回来时,气体的压强应该是不变的,否则它就不是平衡的。
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Smartly-dressed young executives devouring business manuals land at its airport on the hour, every hour.
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