dead of night

英语

其他形式

• dead of the night

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名词

dead of night

1. (俗语) 深夜，半夜

   近义词： deep of night；亦参见Thesaurus:midnight

   • 1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter VII:

     I was feeling just as I had felt in the old Malvern House epoch when I used to sneak down to [the schoolmaster]'s study at dead of night in quest of the biscuits he kept there in a tin on his desk, and there came back to me the memory of the occasion when, not letting a twig snap beneath my feet, I had entered his sanctum in pyjamas and a dressing-gown, to find him seated in his chair, tucking into the biscuits himself.

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   • 1968, “Blackbird”, 出自 Paul McCartney 作词, The Beatles, 演出者 The Beatles:

     Blackbird singing in the dead of night / Take these broken wings and learn to fly

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用法说明

• 常作“in the dead of night”，但有时亦作“at dead of night”（类似“at midnight”）。