| 词组 | a.m., p.m. |
| 释义 | a.m., p.m. These abbreviations are usually used with the hour as a short substitute for "before noon" and "after noon" (or whatever phrase you may use for the same idea). Copperud 1970 tells us that he and Evans 1957 agree that expressions like "6 a.m. in the morning" are redundant; our files show precious little evidence of such expressions, a fact which may indicate that they exist mainly in speech. The abbreviations are occasionally used as an informal substitute for morning and afternoon or evening: • I flew in from Vienna this a.m. —Irving Wallace, The Plot, 1967 • "Judith? No—that is, yes—I saw her this a.m." — Josephine Pinckney, Three O 'Clock Dinner, 1945 • Last Thursday, at one in the p.m. —New Yorker, 19 Aug. 1972 • ... my wife suggests that we can see a Charlie Chaplin movie tomorrow p.m. —Oliver Wendell Holmes d. 1935, letter, 30 Oct. 1921 |
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