| 单词 | midnight |
| 释义 | midnight (once / 179 pages) n Midnight is the moment at which one day ends and the next begins — it's twelve o' clock at night. Follow the Fairy Godmother's advice to Cinderella, and always get homr before midnight. At midnight, the date changes, and the time changes from PM to AM. It's no surprise that midnight is the very middle of the night, the word itself stemming from the Old English mid-niht, from mid, "among" or "in the middle of," and night, from niht, which appropriately means both "night" and "darkness." WORD FAMILYmidnight: midnights+/night: midnight, nightly, nights, overnight/overnight: overnighter, overnights/overnighter: overnighters USAGE EXAMPLESCooper unveiled names of only a few people to serve in his administration before he was sworn in to office just after midnight Saturday. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) Gov. Ricardo Rossello, 37, proposed several measures aimed at alleviating the crisis shortly after he was sworn in at midnight. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) Their second son, Everett, arrived one minute after midnight on Sunday. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) n 12 o'clock at night; the middle of the night young children should not be allowed to stay up until midnight Hyper hour, time of day clock time |
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