In fact, it was 8 and a quarter hours.

事实上是8小时一刻钟。

The clock does its much-loved joust on the quarter hour.

时钟在刻钟时进行其备受喜爱的比赛。

But there are a number of different ways of saying the quarter hours.

但是刻钟有多种不同的说法。

He's got about three and a quarter hours  left saying that word.

他还剩下大约三个半小时的时间来讲述这个词。

But why did she The chimes began as I stepped on my shadow, but it was the quarter hour.

但为什么她踩着我的影子， 钟声响起， 却是一刻钟。

Our meetings begin at a quarter to eight, and are about two and a quarter hours long, so we finish at ten.

我们的会议从四分之一到八点开始，大约两个半小时，所以我们在十点结束。

(Laughter) I won't get too deep into the story of our pedestrian, Ada Anderson, and the breathless " New York Times" articles about her walk: 2,700 quarter miles in 2,700 consecutive quarter hours.

（笑声）我不会深入探讨我们的行人艾达·安德森（Ada Anderson）的故事，以及《纽约时报》关于她步行的气喘吁吁的文章：连续 2,700 刻钟，2,700 刻钟英里。

He didn't know it at that moment, of course, but he was destined to spend so many quarter hours of his life waiting for her that his old father would have gone cross-eyed if he'd found out.

他当时当然不知道，他的一生将有多少个一刻钟要用来等待她，要是他父亲知道了，一定会气坏的。