| 单词 | by night |
| 释义 | > as lemmasby night b. esp. by day (Latin interdiu), by night (Latin noctu). Here the statement of time approaches very nearly to the indication of the physical conditions, as in ‘by day-light’: see A. 34.Old English used in this sense the adverbial genitive dæges and nihtes, or on with the dative on dæȝ(e) and on niht(e); the early Middle English examples show a mixture of these and the modern form with by. ΚΠ c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 11332 Heold crist hiss fasste..Bi daȝhess. & bi nahhtess. a1250 Owl & Nightingale 241 Bi daie þu art stare~blind. c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) l. 4266 Þe Ameral be-segeþ hymen þer-yn..Be niȝtes & be daye. c1440 Partonope 1632 He come to Pountyff by the day. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 108 Alone, by Night, his watry way he took. View more context for this quotation 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 232 The breaches made by day were repaired by night with indefatigable activity. by night (b) by night: during the night, in the night-time. by night and (by) day: always, at all times. by night or day: at any time. See by prep. 19b. 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 the world > time > frequency > [adverb] > always or in every case alwayeOE aldayOE everOE by night and (by) daylOE ayc1175 algatea1200 alwaysc1225 everylikec1225 stillc1297 evermorea1300 algatesa1325 alikec1330 early and latec1330 at all assaysc1360 universallya1398 likec1400 continuallyc1460 tidely1482 ay-whenc1485 from time to (formerly unto) timea1500 at all seasons1526 at once1563 at every turn1565 throughout1567 still still1592 still1594 still and anona1616 still an enda1616 every stitch-while1620 everlastingly1628 constantly1651 everywhen1655 eternally1670 allus1739 any day (of the week)1759 everly1808 allers1833 every time1854 toujours1902 all (the way) down the line1975 lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) (Peterborough interpolation) anno 1070 Yware..nam þa be nihte eall þet he mihte. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 19 Evchan segge hire vres..vtsong inwinter binachte [c1230 Corpus niht; a1400 Pepys niȝth]. a1300 (c1275) Physiologus (1991) 37 A welle he sekeð ðat springeð ai, Boðe bi niȝt & bi dai. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 52 (MED) Þet uolk..late louieþ to soupi and to waki be niȝte and wasteþ þane time ine ydelnesse. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) Josh. ii. 2 Men been goon yn heder by nyȝt..for to aspie þe lond. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) 6749 If..þe dede be don bi night, Þe smyter þan sal haue na plight. 1466 in J. T. Gilbert Cal. Anc. Rec. Dublin (1889) I. 325 For perayles that ben imynent of horsemen by nyght. c1475 Mankind (1969) 769 (MED) Wyth wepynge terys be nyȝte and be day I wyll goo and neuer sesse. 1512 Act 4 Hen. VIII c. 20 Preamble Archbold with other xl. outlawes..come by night to..Penreth Cotes. a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) iv. ii. 59 Time comes stealing on by night and day. View more context for this quotation a1625 J. Fletcher Monsieur Thomas (1639) iv. vi. sig. K2v He walkes by day, so do's he by night. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 514 Jacob..Dreaming by night under the open Skie. View more context for this quotation 1726 J. Swift Gulliver II. iv. x. 154 It was to be feared, I might..bring them in Troops by Night to destroy the..Cattle. 1770 O. Goldsmith Deserted Village 230 A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day. a1822 P. B. Shelley Homer's Hymn to Mercury lxxxii, in Posthumous Poems (1824) 322 A joy by night or day—for those endowed With art and wisdom. 1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick lxxxvii. 423 The endless procession of ships..which for centuries past, by night and by day, have passed between the islands. 1885 Law Times Rep. 53 53/2 A tow which is being towed with a long scope of hawser by night. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 957/2 A complete system of signalling by night and by day on the Morse system is worked by the police. 1938 Amer. Home Oct. 15/1 Lounge beds... By day..they are davenports. By night they become comfortable beds. 1977 W. S. Merwin Compass Flower i. 12 They resume their journey flying by night with the sound of blood rushing in an ear. 1991 J. Barth Last Voy. Somebody the Sailor 261 Which of this pair of prizes, in my judgement, would more likely so please him by night and by day as to cure his wanderlust? < as lemmas |
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