mid-morning

mid-morning — 形容詞

1. happening during the part of the morning that comes after the earliest hours but

1.形容詞B1
釋義

上午中段

指上午中間約九點到十一點的時間

happening during the part of the morning that comes after the earliest hours but before noon, roughly between 9:00 and 11:00 a.m.

例句

Christopher takes a mid-morning snack of yogurt and nuts around ten o'clock.

Christopher 大約在十點左右吃一份優格加堅果當作上午中段的點心。

attributive use: mid-morning + snack

Élise grabs a coffee from the shop near her office during the mid-morning lull.

Élise 趁上午中段的空檔，到辦公室附近的咖啡店買了一杯咖啡。

collocation: mid-morning lull

同義詞
  • late-morning

    very close in meaning; 'late-morning' emphasises the end of the morning period rather than the middle

反義詞

文法句型

mid-morning + noun

用法筆記

Always used before a noun. Unlike time words such as 'midday' or 'midnight', mid-morning does not function as a noun on its own in standard adjective use.

常見錯誤

❌Let's meet in the mid-morning.
✅Let's meet in the mid-morning hours.
💡mid-morning is an adjective and needs a noun after it.
❌We had lunch at mid-morning.
✅We had a mid-morning snack.
💡mid-morning refers to a time before lunch, not to noon or midday.