| 释义 |
a-night, adv., prop. phr. arch.|əˈnaɪt|
[OE. on niht, reduced by common change of proclitic on to a: already in Chaucer MSS. it interchanges with the modern at night.]
By night, at night.
c1000Ags. Gosp. John vii. 50 Nichodemus..se þe com to him on nyht. a1300Floriz & Bl. 24 Murie hi uerden þer aniȝt. c1384Chaucer H. Fame 42 To make folke to dreme a-nyght [v.r. on nyght]. c1386― Man of Law's T. 612 They moste take in pacience a-night [v.r. at nyght, at nyȝt, a nyht] Such maner necessaries. c1440Partonope 3113 They mete neuer but a nyght. 1600Shakes. A.Y.L. ii. iv. 49, I..bid him take that for comming a night to Iane Smile. 1830Tennyson Arab. Nts. ii, Anight my shallop..clove The citron-shadows in the blue. |