| 单词 | at nights |
| 释义 | > as lemmasat nights (c) at nights: in the evenings; by night (esp. usually or habitually). Cf. Phrases 2a(c). 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 1581 B. Rich Farewell Militarie Profession sig. Bb.jv At nightes she was lodged in her fathers Chamber. 1687 J. Aubrey in W. J. Thoms Anecd. & Trad. (1839) 115 They swept up the harth alwaies at nights, and did sett their shoes by the fire. 1693 tr. A. Bourignon in Coll. Mod. Relations Witches 29 This Love of hers had..carried her at Nights to the Witches Meetings in great Castles. 1720 Humourist 9 At Nights..they had the Shelter of a Barn. 1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §283 Having first established, that they should quit the work at nights. 1810 A. Cunningham et al. Remains Nithsdale & Galloway Song App. 334 (Jam.) [The Brownie] keeping the servants awake at nights with the noisy dirling of its elfin flail. 1864 A. Trollope Can you forgive Her? I. ii. 8 She..lived a hot, uncomfortable life, going about at nights to gatherings of fashionable people. 1883 J. W. Sherer At Home & in India 6 The stout, beaming man now appears quite distinctly—coming from somewhere at nights in a postchaise. 1908 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Green Gables ii. 18 I used to lie awake at nights and imagine things like that, because I didn't have time during the day. 1962 S. Wynter Hills of Hebron x. 128 At nights he heard the sea rushing up and down the long beach. 1996 Blueprint July 14/1 The area is deserted at nights and at weekends. < as lemmas |
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