| 词汇 | midnight |
| 释义 | midnightWord family noun night midnight nightie midnight bluemidnight sunadjective nightly overnight midnightlyadverb overnight nightly Chronology mid·night /ˈmɪdnaɪt/ ●●● S3 noun [uncountableU] TMC12 o’clock at night 子夜，午夜 → midday → burn the midnight oil at burn1(20)at midnight The train is due in at midnight. 这趟火车半夜到站。 after/before midnight We stayed there until way after midnight. 我们在那里一直待到午夜过后很久。 You can’t phone her now – it’s gone midnight (=after midnight)! 你现在不能打电话给她，都过午夜了！ By the time he arrived, it was well past midnight (=after midnight). 他到的时候早已经是后半夜了。 at/on the stroke of midnight (=at exactly midnight) 半夜12点整 The treaty will come into force on the stroke of midnight tonight. 条约将于今晚12点整开始生效。 He’s gone for a midnight swim. 他深更半夜去游泳了。 Don’t say ‘in the midnight’. If you mean ‘at 12 o’clock at night’ say at midnight and if you mean ‘very late at night’ say in the middle of the night. 不要说 ‘in the midnight’。“在夜里12点” 要说 at midnight，“深更半夜”要说 in the middle of the night。 Examples from the Corpus midnight• About midnight, the first Federal units began withdrawing from the field.• Troops were deployed in Kwangju at midnight on May 17, just as Chun was declaring nationwide martial law.• In other years, he had often felt a great fatigue after the midnight service.• We always go to midnight mass on Christmas Eve.• The restaurant is open from 5 p.m. to midnight every day.• Sometimes these domino sessions in the canteen would last from 6.30 p.m. until midnight.• She forgot it was midnight and this was a respectable couple. at/on the stroke of midnight• I managed to come at the stroke of midnight with my third companion of the night. |
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