N-PLURAL If something happens in the small hours, it happens soon after midnight, in the very early morning. 午夜后的几小时; 凌晨时分 [usu 'in the' N, oft N 'of' n]
They were arrested in the small hours of Saturday morning.
他们在周六凌晨时分被捕。
He was so engrossed in his work that he frequently stayed up until the small hours.
他全神贯注地工作，经常工作到下半夜。
We worked well into the small hours.
我们一直工作到了午夜之后。
They were arrested in the small hours of Saturday morning.
他们在周六凌晨时分被捕。
Seventy-two hours later, Felix de Weldon had made a small statue of Joe Rosenthal's picture.
VOA: special.2011.05.30
Experts say accountability is key in determining the future use of certain practices such as confining thousands of protesters into small areas for hours on end and of some officers removing badge numbers from their uniforms in crowd control situations.
VOA: standard.2009.04.21
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