| 单词 | night nor day | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasnight nor (also ne) day  (b)    night or day: by night or by day; at any time. Also  night nor (also ne) day: neither by night nor day; not at any time.Earliest in negative constructions. ΘΚΠ the world > time > day and night > 			[adverb]		 night nor (also ne) daya1225 a1225						 (c1200)						    Vices & Virtues 		(1888)	 31 (MED)  				Ne swic ðu naure niht ne dai ær ðu hes habbe. c1385    G. Chaucer Knight's Tale 1823  				Ye shal..swere That neuere mo ye shal my contree dere Ne make werre vpon me nyght nor day. a1400						 (a1325)						    Cursor Mundi 		(Gött.)	 19715  				Þair redis..gun þai rune, wid all þe kepers of þat tune, Night or day to waite þe time Quen þai might cum to murder him. c1450    in  E. P. Hammond Eng. Verse between Chaucer & Surrey 		(1927)	 211  				My trouble..Repeyreth ay which nyght nor day ne cesseth nought. a1475    Sidrak & Bokkus 		(Lansd.)	 		(Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Washington)	 		(1965)	 8899 (MED)  				She shal fonde night or day To shorte þi daies if she may. 1599    R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations 		(new ed.)	 II.  ii. 108  				Hee..for eight dayes space neither night nor day tooke any naturall rest, and so at length died for lacke of sleepe. 1611    Bible 		(King James)	 Esther iv. 16  				Fast yee for me, and neither eate nor drinke three dayes, night or day .       View more context for this quotation 1707    J. Freind Acct. Earl of Peterborow's Conduct in Spain 205  				My Lord never rested night or day, till he came to Tortosa. 1768    A. Ross Fortunate Shepherdess  i. 248  				They've gotten a geet that stills na night nor day. 1845    C. Darwin Jrnl. 		(ed. 2)	 x. 213  				Whenever it is low water, winter or summer, night or day, they must rise to pick shellfish from the rocks. 1863    P. Barry Dockyard Econ. 189  				Ankle chains..riveted together,..never to be unloosened night nor day. 1889    ‘M. Twain’ Connecticut Yankee xxi. 265  				The prayers..and the lamentations in sackcloth and ashes, and the holy processions, none of these have ceased nor night nor day. 1939    Fortune Nov. 5 		(advt.)	  				In this new ‘Controlled Conditions’ plant, night or day..every day is like that ‘rare day in June’. 1993    N.Y. Times 5 Sept.  v. 19/2  				It never stopped raining night or day. < as lemmas | 
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