Night
[naɪt]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) darkness; 'it vanished into the night'.
(noun.) the dark part of the diurnal cycle considered a time unit; 'three nights later he collapsed'.
(noun.) the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside.
(noun.) the time between sunset and midnight; 'he watched television every night'.
(noun.) the period spent sleeping; 'I had a restless night'.
(noun.) a period of ignorance or backwardness or gloom.
(noun.) a shortening of nightfall; 'they worked from morning to night'.
唐纳德錄入--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) That part of the natural day when the sun is beneath the horizon, or the time from sunset to sunrise; esp., the time between dusk and dawn, when there is no light of the sun, but only moonlight, starlight, or artificial light.
(n.) Darkness; obscurity; concealment.
(n.) Intellectual and moral darkness; ignorance.
(n.) A state of affliction; adversity; as, a dreary night of sorrow.
(n.) The period after the close of life; death.
(n.) A lifeless or unenlivened period, as when nature seems to sleep.
錄入:赖安
解釋/意思:
n. the end of the day: the time from sunset to sunrise: darkness: ignorance affliction or sorrow: death.—ns. Night′-bell a bell for use at night—of a physician &c.; Night′-bird a bird that flies only at night esp. the owl: the nightingale as singing at night; Night′-blind′ness inability to see in a dim light nyctalopia; Night′-brawl′er one who raises disturbances in the night; Night′cap a cap worn at night in bed (so Night′dress -shirt &c.): a dram taken before going to bed: a cap drawn over the face before hanging; Night′-cart a cart used to remove the contents of privies before daylight; Night′-chair a night-stool; Night′-churr or -jar the British species of goat-sucker so called from the sound of its cry.—n.pl. Night′-clothes garments worn in bed.—ns. Night′-crow a bird that cries in the night; Night′-dog (Shak.) a dog that hunts in the night.—adj. Night′ed benighted: (Shak.) darkened clouded.—ns. Night′fall the fall or beginning of the night: the close of the day: evening; Night′faring travelling by night; Night′fire a fire burning in the night: a will-o'-the-wisp; Night′-fish′ery a mode of fishing by night or a place where this is done; Night′-fly a moth that flies at night; Night′-foe one who makes his attack by night; Night′-foss′icker one who robs a digging by night.—adj. Night′-foun′dered lost in the night.—ns. Night′-fowl a night-bird; Night′-glass a spy-glass with concentrating lenses for use at night; Night′-gown a long loose robe for sleeping in for men or women; a loose gown for wearing in the house; Night′-hag a witch supposed to be abroad at night; Night′-hawk a species of migratory goat-sucker common in America; Night′-her′on a heron of nocturnal habit; Night′-house a tavern allowed to be open during the night; Night′-hunt′er a degraded woman who prowls about the streets at night for her prey; Night′-lamp or -light a light left burning all night.—adj. Night′less having no night.—n. Night′-line a fishing-line set overnight.—adj. and adv. Night′long lasting all night.—adj. Night′ly done by night: done every night.—adv. by night: every night.—ns. Night′-man a night-watchman or scavenger; Night′-owl an owl of exclusively nocturnal habits: one who sits up very late; Night′-pal′sy a numbness of the lower limbs incidental to women; Night′piece a picture or literary description of a night-scene: a painting to be seen best by artificial light; Night′-por′ter a porter in attendance during the night at hotels railway stations &c.; Night′-rail a night-gown: a 17th-century form of head-dress; Night′-rav′en (Shak.) a bird that cries at night supposed to be of ill-omen; Night′-rest the repose of the night; Night′-rule (Shak.) a frolic at night.—adv. Nights (obs.) by night.—ns. Night′-school a school held at night esp. for those at work during the day; Night′-sea′son the time of night; Night′shade a name of several plants of the genus Solanum having narcotic properties often found in damp shady woods; Night′-shriek a cry in the night; Night′-side the dark mysterious or gloomy side of anything; Night′-sing′er any bird like the nightingale esp. the Irish sedge-warbler; Night′-soil the contents of privies cesspools &c. generally carried away at night; Night′-spell a charm against accidents by night; Night′-steed one of the horses in the chariot of Night; Night′-stool a close-stool for use in a bedroom; Night′-tā′per a night-light burning slowly.—n.pl. Night′-terr′ors the sudden starting from sleep of children in a state of fright.—p.adj. Night′-trip′ping (Shak.) tripping about in the night.—ns. Night′-wak′ing watching in the night; Night′-walk a walk in the night; Night′-walk′er one who walks in his sleep at night a somnambulist: one who walks about at night for bad purposes esp. a prostitute; Night′-walk′ing walking in one's sleep somnambulism: roving about at night with evil designs; Night′-wan′derer one who wanders by night.—adjs. Night′-war′bling singing in the night; Night′ward toward night.—ns. Night′-watch a watch or guard at night: time of watch in the night; Night′-watch′man one who acts as a watch during the night; Night′-work work done at night.
手打:奥拉夫
娱乐性解釋/意思:
If you are surrounded by night in your dreams, you may expect unusual oppression and hardships in business. If the night seems to be vanishing, conditions which hitherto seemed unfavorable will now grow bright, and affairs will assume prosperous phases. See Darkness.
伯纳德錄入
例句/造句/用法:
- I wired to Bristol for it last night. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- The Unquenchables had done their best to be worthy of the name, for like elves they had worked by night and conjured up a comical surprise. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Night also closed around; and when I could hardly see the dark mountains, I felt still more gloomily. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- Listlessness to everything, but brooding sorrow, was the night that fell on my undisciplined heart. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Was he alone, that long night, whose brave, loving spirit was bearing up, in that old shed, against buffeting and brutal stripes? 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- I never had the feeling in the house before,' said Mrs Boffin; 'and I have been about it alone at all hours of the night. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Joe patted the coverlet on my shoulder with his great good hand, and said, in what I thought a husky voice, Good night! 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- But she took such a long walk up and down our rooms that night, while I was writing to Agnes, that I began to think she meant to walk till morning. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- I took my wages to my pillow, and passed the night counting them. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- If you would engage a front room and purchase the necessaries for the night, I may have time to make a few inquiries. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- He had arranged to stop at Frizinghall that night, having occasion to consult his father on business. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- I never had such a night in my life! 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- But nothing will induce me to quarrel with any one to-night. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- On a night like this it would be nothing to take the posts and blow the bridge and it would all be over and done with. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- A hard-working man, and not overstrong, he would return to his home from the machine-shop where he was employed, and throw himself on the bed night after night to rest. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- Rawdon acquiesced in the justice of her opinion; and in truth he had remarked that after a few nights of his little suppers, &c. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Catherine Barkley took three nights off night duty and then she came back on again. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- Of course the nights were getting longer. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- She wished it was dead, she said; and she wouldn't let me have it o' nights, cause, she said, it kept me awake, and made me good for nothing. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- A railway here in Asia--in the dreamy realm of the Orient--in the fabled land of the Arabian Nights--is a strange thing to think of. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Mr Wegg (who had had nothing else in his mind for several nights) took off his spectacles with an air of bland surprise. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- He walked over to me, and said: 'Young man, I want you to work the Louisville wire nights; your salary will be $125. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Then a battle began that lasted for two days and two nights, the object of which was to get a carbonized thread that would not break. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- And why tonight of all nights? 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- He had all his life been in terror of the nights that should come, when he could not sleep. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- That night passed: all nights--even the starless night before dissolution--must wear away. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- And this extraordinary number is NEARLY equal to the number of days and nights in a year (365 x 2 = 730); and is therefore concerned with human life. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- By the old hand method it required twenty-eight men, two days and two nights, to unload a cargo of 4,000,000 pounds. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- I summoned all the resolutions I had made, in all those many days and nights, and all those many conflicts of my heart. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Besides, the nights are so still, that the sound of oars can easily be heard a long way off, especially by men trained to hear like my Greeks. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
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