| 单词 | morning and afternoon |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmorning and afternoon In the afternoon. Now only in phrases, as morning and afternoon, morning, afternoon, and evening. ΘΚΠ the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > afternoon > [adverb] afternoon1548 mid-afternoon1847 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. D. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Luke .xxiii. f. clxxxiv A great derkenesse..continued till the nynth houre, that is to saye, till three of the clocke afternoone. 1590 W. Burton Serm. preached in Norwich sig. D1 Againe they say, we wil not reade seruice euery day forenoone and afternoone, to the walles and the windows. 1771 J. Wesley Let. 18 May (1931) V. 244 As soon as my back was turned, you valiantly attacked me, I suppose both morning and afternoon. 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering II. 292 The funeral..was to proceed..at one o'clock afternoon. 1903 World's Work Aug. 3719/1 To this great terminus more human beings go morning and afternoon than go to any other terminal in the world. 1964 R. K. Narayan My Dateless Diary (1988) 184 Jackie walking in for an hour or two morning, afternoon, and evening, to put in the corrections. 2003 M. Ali Brick Lane i. 12 Morning and afternoon she sat with her big thighs spilling over the sides of her chair, tipping forward to drop ash in a bowl, tipping back to slug from her can. < as lemmas |
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