Nightfall
['naɪtfɔːl] or ['naɪt'fɔl]
解釋/意思:
(n.) The close of the day.
編輯:桑德拉
例句/造句/用法:
- Leave this island before nightfall, or, by heaven, I will have you drowned like the rat you are! 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- Finding my apprehensions unfounded, however, and calmed by the deep silence that reigned as evening declined at nightfall, I took confidence. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Sherman, however, was not aware of the extent of our success until after nightfall, when he received orders to pursue at daylight in the morning. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- The man is by trade a conjurer and performer, going round the canteens after nightfall, and giving a little entertainment at each. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- After nightfall we reached our tents, just outside of the nasty Arab village of Jonesborough. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- All day he was down town; and in winter it was long after nightfall when she heard his fagged step on the stairs and his hand on the school-room door. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- The battle lasted three days; each day the Arabs attacked and the Persian host held its ground until nightfall called a truce. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- As John Dawkins objected to their entering London before nightfall, it was nearly eleven o'clock when they reached the turnpike at Islington. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- All this happened towards evening, and before nightfall, when my husband went to Catherick's house, he was gone, nobody knew where. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- It was nearly nightfall, and we had eaten nothing since early morning, so that we spent some time over our meal. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- Wallace brought 5,000 more after nightfall. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- But the communication was liable to be interrupted by fogs, as well as by nightfall. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- By nightfall the late defenders of Camp Jackson were all within the walls of the St. Louis arsenal, prisoners of war. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- The report of this reached me after nightfall. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- We went into the town before nightfall and looked at its people--we cared nothing about its houses. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
編輯:默里