af‧ter‧noon 1 S1 W2 / ɑftənun◂ $ æftər- / 名词 [可数和不可数名词]

1 the part of the day after the morning and before the evening → morning , evening :

There’s a meeting on Thursday afternoon .

It was very hot in the afternoon .

See you tomorrow afternoon .

Are you going into town this afternoon ?

We met in the early afternoon .

By late afternoon , Micky had changed his mind.

He was having his afternoon nap .

2 afternoons during the afternoon every day :

She only works afternoons.

COLLOCATIONS

ADJECTIVES/NOUN + afternoon

Monday/Friday/Saturday etc afternoon Did you see the football on Saturday afternoon?

this afternoon (= today in the afternoon ) I’ll come round to your house this afternoon.

early/late afternoon I arrived in Boston in the early afternoon.

all afternoon/the whole afternoon You left the lights on all afternoon.

副词

tomorrow afternoon What are you doing tomorrow afternoon?

yesterday afternoon I went to see mum yesterday afternoon.

AFTERNOON + 名词

an afternoon nap (= short sleep ) Dad was having his Sunday afternoon nap.

the afternoon sun It was too hot to go out in the afternoon sun.

afternoon tea (= a light meal eaten in the afternoon with a cup of tea ) Some people still have afternoon tea at 4 o’clock.

the middle of the afternoon It was the middle of a long hot summer afternoon.

动词

spend the afternoon somewhere/doing something We decided to spend the afternoon in town.