英:[ˈmɪdnaɪt]
美:[ˈmɪdnaɪt]
英:[ˈmɪdnaɪt]
美:[ˈmɪdnaɪt]
mid·night
mId naIt
noun
twelve o'clock at night.
adjective
occurring at or near twelve o'clock at night.a midnight snacka midnight swim
resembling the darkest part of the night.midnight blue
at midnight在午夜
burn the midnight oil开夜车
midnight sunn. 夜半太阳(夏季在南极或北极能见到)
midnight blue深蓝;深蓝色
"半夜,晚上12点",古英语 mid-niht 或 middre niht(带有形容词的与格)。参见 mid(形容词)+ night。与古高地德语 mittinaht,德语 Mitternacht 中的类似构词法相比。Midnight oil 象征着“深夜工作”,可追溯到1630年代。
The first known use of midnight was before the 12th century
midnightnoun
12 o'clock at night
1 The blade was just like I’d seen in my dream: short, sharp, and dark as midnight.
2 “All right, I hereby offer my apologies, but only because if I don’t, we’ll be here till midnight.”
3 Maybe it tastes better because everything tastes better when you are wearing old flannel pajamas at midnight.
4 At midnight, lying in bed, he heard Mom’s light, tripping footsteps on the stairs, and then the more imposing thud of Dad’s footfalls.
5 Taisin sat up past midnight, feeling awkward and self-conscious, staring at the page before her but not reading a word.
6 The new law will come into operation by midnight tomorrow.
新法律将于明日午夜生效.
7 After being cheered down the California coast, it slid through sunset, into darkness and silence, and across midnight.
8 “Ah most always work from six t’ midnight, but I was coverin’ the graveyard shift.
9 It's a bit thick to expect me to work until midnight!
指望我工作到深夜?这有点不合情理吧!
10 Dressed only in nightshirts, Stella Mills and her brother Jojo shivered in the midnight October chill.
11 They had cocktails and went dancing past midnight.
12 Da up and gone—at work, he said, though the money he brought home was less each week, and he’d stumble in after midnight reeking of hops.
13 Any Jew not in the ghetto by midnight on the following day would be shot.
14 By midnight on Tuesday evening, more than fifty undergraduates had volunteered.
15 Way in the midnight he woke Janie up in his nightmarish struggle with an enemy that was at his throat.
16 Although some people stayed home to listen to the broadcasts, many celebrated, taking part in midnight torchlight parades that snaked throughout other German towns and cities.
17 We are just awakening from midnight to dawn, for what we get together tonight, Laozhao says.
老赵说, 我们今晚呆在一起, 正可以说是从子夜到黎明.
18 “Us Clock Watchers have unyielding natures. When he approached me with mischief in his heart at the exact stroke of midnight, I couldn’t say no.”
19 The midnight wind was cold and it came from the north.
20 When we finally reach the top of the stairs, our chests heaving, it is five minutes to midnight.
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