Evening
['iːv(ə)nɪŋ] or ['ivnɪŋ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall); 'he enjoyed the evening light across the lake'.
(noun.) the early part of night (from dinner until bedtime) spent in a special way; 'an evening at the opera'.
(noun.) a later concluding time period; 'it was the evening of the Roman Empire'.
整理:莫顿--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Even
(n.) The latter part and close of the day, and the beginning of darkness or night; properly, the decline of the day, or of the sum.
(n.) The latter portion, as of life; the declining period, as of strength or glory.
編輯:默里
同義詞及近義詞:
n. Eve, even, eventide, nightfall, dusk, twilight, close of the day, fall of day, decline of day, going down of the sun.
欧内斯特整理
解釋/意思:
n. the close of the daytime: the decline or end of life: an evening party or gathering.—ns. Ev′enfall early evening twilight; Eve′ning-dress the dress worn by ladies and gentlemen at evening parties; Eve′ning-prim′rose a species of Œnothera native of Virginia but now naturalised in many parts of Europe on river-banks in thickets &c.—eaten after dinner it incites to wine-drinking; Eve′ning star applied to Venus when seen in the west setting soon after the sun; Ev′ensong evening prayer the Anglican form appointed to be said or sung at evening: the time proper for such; Ev′entide the time of evening evening.
整理:萨莎
娱乐性解釋/意思:
To dream that evening is about you, denotes unrealized hopes, and you will make unfortunate ventures. To see stars shining out clear, denotes present distress, but brighter fortune is behind your trouble. For lovers to walk in the evening, denotes separation by the death of one.
达伦編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- He thought no more of the matter until he heard in the evening of the tragedy that had occurred. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- Heaven and Evening gazed back on her. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Mr Wegg nods to the face, 'Good evening. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- I felt I might, without indelicacy, because the evening she dined with us she rather suggested . 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- Good evening, Mr Venus. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- My first most vivid and broad impression of the identity of things seems to me to have been gained on a memorable raw afternoon towards evening. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- But he came regularly every evening and sat without his coat, with his head against the wall, as though he would have helped us if he had known how. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Whereas, it must be evident to yourself, as it is to me, that you have been this evening very different from what you were before. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- That evening, of course, Celia knew nothing of what had happened. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- I did not arrive here till Tuesday evening. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- She enjoyed herself very much that evening, for she danced to her heart's content. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Mr. Wopsle, as the ill-requited uncle of the evening's tragedy, fell to meditating aloud in his garden at Camberwell. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- But what did you hear about her second attack of faintness yesterday evening? 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Why, the house is closed--Judy telephoned me from Bellomont this evening. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- But I had acted enough for one evening; it was time I retired into myself and my ordinary life. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- The scene of that afternoon was repeated that evening, and on the three afternoons and evenings next ensuing. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Stay here and dine, stay here and help us to spend our last evening with you as happily, as like our first evenings, as we can. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- The excursionists danced, on three separate evenings, long, long ago, (it seems an age. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for the only problem we have still to solve is how to while away these bleak autumnal evenings. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- The Semites had no long winter evenings and no bardic singing. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- But the evenings were rather difficult to fill up agreeably. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- To conceal from my friends the stinted manner in which I lived, I was in the habit of bringing my food to my room in the evenings, and this was my mode of life for many years. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- I might look in there now; the Fisher evenings are amusing. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Not only that evening, but for several succeeding evenings, Clennam was quite charmed by this investigation. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- After dinner we played at cards; and, when we had concluded one of the most stupid evenings possible, Worcester and I took our leave. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- It was one of those summer evenings when there is no greater darkness than a long twilight. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- I wish you could tell me of some secret plan that would help me to keep him home at my will in the evenings. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- There was little profit in trying to grow much cotton at such a rate, and most of the cotton picking was done by the negroes in the evenings, when the harder labor of the fields was finished. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- They were a wretched waste of the evenings; and now, when he had talked a little more to Rosamond, he meant to excuse himself and go. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- There must be a sort of shyness; but I cannot recollect that our evenings formerly were ever merry, except when my uncle was in town. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
手打:玛丽安