| 单词 |
a.m. |
| 释义 |
A.M., a.m., phr. Contr. of 1. L. ante meridiem before noon (in which sense it is familiarly read and spoken ˌeɪˈɛm). Also (colloq.) in sense of ‘morning’. Cf. ante meridiem.
1762Borlase in Phil. Trans. LII. 507 At ten A.M. the driver of a plough..laden with tin..found himself and the plough, on a sudden, surrounded by the sea. 1776A. R. Robbins Jrnl. (1850) 6 Exercised and walked around with the officers in a.m. 1839G. W. M. Reynolds Pickwick Abroad i. 3 At about ten o'clock a.m., [etc.]. 1889Cent. Dict. s.v., I arrived here this a.m...that is, this morning or forenoon. 1925E. F. Norton Fight for Everest 1924 i. iv. 81 Overcast and warm, light snow in early a.m. 1955Times 9 May 5/5 At 2.50 a.m...the stolen car approached. 2. L. anno mundi in the year of the world. 3. L. artium magister Master of Arts (now usually M.A., in England). |

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