| 单词 | at night |
| 释义 | > as lemmasat night (c) at night: at nightfall, in the evening or night; during the hours of darkness. Frequently designating a specified time. ΘΚΠ the world > time > day and night > night > [adverb] nightseOE on nightOE in (also of, on, upon) the nightOE by nightlOE on (also in) nightslOE a-nightc1175 a-nightsc1175 at nightc1300 within nightc1400 a-nightertime?a1439 a nighttimes1567 at nights1581 nightly1597 benight1642 nocturnally1812 night-times1851 nitely1970 c1300 St. Theophilus (Laud) 161 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 293 (MED) Þis cas bi-feol in leinte on a satures-day at niȝt. c1387–95 G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. 23 At nyght was come..Wel nyne and twenty in a compaignye. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) 3931 Iacob lay him stille atte naȝt. c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) 1407 What nwez so þay nome, at naȝt quen þay metten. a1475 Bk. Curtasye (Sloane 1986) l. 487 in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 315 Þo lorde schalle skyft hys gown at nyȝt. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. ccccxix. 733 The wednisday at night that ye batayle was the next day. 1568 in R. Renwick Extracts Rec. Royal Burgh of Lanark (1893) 41 Quhill viij houris at nycht. a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iii. i. 43 Let euery man be master of his time, Till seuen at Night . View more context for this quotation 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 130 They give their Bodies due repose at Night . View more context for this quotation 1722 D. Defoe Moll Flanders 29 My Gentleman, he staid out as he told me he would, till late at Night. 1782 J. H. St. J. de Crèvecoeur Lett. from Amer. Farmer vi. 168 The shark..in spite of the people's endeavours, will share with them in their prey; at night particularly. 1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist II. xxxiii. 219 At night Oliver read a chapter or two from the Bible. 1865 A. Trollope Can you forgive Her? II. iii. 15 Would it not even be better to be beaten by him than to have politics explained to her at one o'clock at night? 1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker iv. 61 As I read myself to sleep at night. 1918 W. Cather My Ántonia i. xix. 157 The burning sun of those weeks, with occasional rains at night, secured the corn. 1955 R. S. Thomas Song at Year's Turning 21 And then at night see him fixed in his chair. 1987 C. Thubron Behind Wall ii. 61 By nine o'clock at night the city is already closing itself away. < as lemmas |
| 随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。