small hours

1. N-PLURAL If something happens in the small hours, it happens soon after midnight, in the very early morning. 午夜後的幾小時(shí); 淩晨時(shí)分[usu 'in the' N, oft N 'of' n]

They were arrested in the small hours of Saturday morning. 他們?cè)谥芰鶞R晨時(shí)分被捕。