英语单词 | midnight |
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英美音标 | 英 ['mɪdnaɪt] 美 ['mɪdnaɪt] |
中文释义 | n.午夜;漆黑 |
英语例句 | (1) The mail was sorted and pouched by midnight. (2) We finally got some shut-eye after midnight. |
中文例句 | (1) 邮件在午夜前分拣装包。 (2) 午夜过後我们总算睡了一会儿。 |
vocabulary简明 | Midnight is the moment at which one day ends and the next begins — it's twelve o' clock at night. Follow the Fairy Godmother's advice to Cinderella, and always get homr before midnight. |
vocabulary扩展 | At midnight, the date changes, and the time changes from PM to AM. It's no surprise that midnight is the very middle of the night, the word itself stemming from the Old English mid-niht, from mid, "among" or "in the middle of," and night, from niht, which appropriately means both "night" and "darkness." |
柯林斯解释 | 1 [N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]子夜;午夜;半夜 Midnight is twelve o'clock in the middle of the night. [usu prep N]
2 [ADJ 形容词]半夜的;午夜的;子夜的 Midnight is used to describe something which happens or appears at midnight or in the middle of the night. [ADJ n]
3 [PHRASE 短语]开夜车;挑灯夜战;工作(或读书)至深夜 If someone is burning the midnight oil, they are staying up very late in order to study or do some other work. [V inflects]
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