| 单词 | night |
| 释义 | night (once / 21 pages) n At the end of the day, when the sun goes down and the world gets dark, it's night. If you work at night, you have to get used to sleeping in the middle of the day. Night lasts approximately as long as the dark period of a 24-hour day, although in some parts of the world it stays bright and sunny throughout the night in the summertime, and in other areas the sun goes down in the afternoon during winter, long before night has fallen. The Old English root word niht means both "night" and "darkness." WORD FAMILYnight: midnight, nightly, nights, overnight+/midnight: midnights/overnight: overnighter, overnights/overnighter: overnighters USAGE EXAMPLESAustin Rivers was in no mood for introspection Monday night. Los Angeles Times(Jan 02, 2017) In Georgia, some of the heaviest rains were expected late Monday night and into the overnight hours of early Tuesday morning, forecasters said. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) ABC’s night of sitcoms wraps up at 9:30 with “The Real O’Neals” and some self-doubt from Eileen, the family’s matriarch. New York Times(Jan 03, 2017) 1n the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper dark, nighttime day, daylight, daytime the time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside weeknight any night of the week except Saturday or Sunday wedding nightthe night after the wedding when bride and groom sleep together period, period of time, time period an amount of time 2n the time between sunset and midnight he watched television every night Hyper period, period of time, time period an amount of time 3n the period spent sleeping I had a restless night Hyper period, period of time, time period an amount of time 4n the dark part of the diurnal cycle considered a time unit three nights later he collapsed Hyper time unit, unit of time a unit for measuring time periods 5n a shortening of nightfall they worked from morning to night Hyper crepuscle, crepuscule, dusk, evenfall, fall, gloam, gloaming, nightfall, twilight the time of day immediately following sunset 6n a period of ignorance or backwardness or gloom Hyper period, period of time, time period an amount of time 7n darkness it vanished into the night Hyper dark, darkness absence of light or illumination Night (once / 393 pages) n WORD FAMILY Night: Nights USAGE EXAMPLES“Night of intoxication, O mad night!” the chorus sings. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) From the new movie “Live By Night,” a Deco-style beaded flapper dress is all sparkle. Seattle Times(Jan 01, 2017) Cooper is a 30-year veteran of state politics - 14 years in the legislature before 16 as attorney general - and claimed victory on Election Night. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) n Roman goddess of night; daughter of Erebus; counterpart of Greek Nyx Syn|Exp Nox Roman deity a deity worshipped by the ancient Romans |
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