英汉词典

night 基本解释

• n. 夜晚，晚上；黑暗，黑夜
• adj. 夜晚的，夜间的

night 词态变化

night 中文词源

来自PIE*nekwt,夜晚，词源同nocturnal,equinox.

night 英文词源

night

night: [OE] Night is the English member of an ancient Indo-European family of ‘night’-words, represented in virtually all the modern European languages. The ancestral form was *nokt-, and from this have come Greek núx, Latin nox (source of English nocturnal [15] and nocturne [19], and forerunner of French nuit, Italian notte, and Spanish noche), Welsh nos, Latvian nakts, and Russian noch’. The Germanic descendant of *nokt- was *nakht-, source of modern German and Dutch nacht, Swedish natt, Danish nat, and English night. The only exception to the general European picture is modern Irish oidhche ‘night’, a word of unknown origin.
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night (n.)

Old English niht (West Saxon neaht, Anglian næht, neht) "night, darkness;" the vowel indicating that the modern word derives from oblique cases (genitive nihte, dative niht), from Proto-Germanic *nakht- (cognates: Old Saxon and Old High German naht, Old Frisian and Dutch nacht, German Nacht, Old Norse natt, Gothic nahts).

The Germanic words are from PIE *nekwt- "night" (cognates: Greek nuks "a night," Latin nox, Old Irish nochd, Sanskrit naktam "at night," Lithuanian naktis "night," Old Church Slavonic nosti, Russian noch', Welsh henoid "tonight"), according to Watkins, probably from a verbal root *neg- "to be dark, be night." For spelling with -gh- see fight.

The fact that the Aryans have a common name for night, but not for day (q.v.), is due to the fact that they reckoned by nights. [Weekley]

Compare German Weihnachten "Christmas." In early times, the day was held to begin at sunset, so Old English monanniht "Monday night" was the night before Monday, or what we would call Sunday night. The Greeks, by contrast, counted their days by mornings.

To work nights preserves the Old English genitive of time. Night shift is attested from 1710 in the sense of "garment worn by a woman at night" (see shift (n.1)); meaning "gang of workers employed after dark" is from 1839. Night soil "excrement" (1770) is so called because it was removed (from cesspools, etc.) after dark. Night train attested from 1838. Night life "habitual nocturnal carousing" attested from 1852.

night 词组搭配

night 英文释义

1. the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside

2. the time between sunset and midnight;

"he watched television every night"

3. the period spent sleeping;

"I had a restless night"

4. the dark part of the diurnal cycle considered a time unit;

"three nights later he collapsed"

5. darkness;

"it vanished into the night"

6. a shortening of nightfall;

"they worked from morning to night"

7. a period of ignorance or backwardness or gloom

night 同义词解析

evening, night

这两个名词都有"夜，晚上"之意。

evening： 指日落到就寝之间的时间。

night： 指从日落到日出或从黄昏到拂晓这段时间。

night 双语例句

1. Two men were helping police with their inquiries at Salisbury last night.

两名男子昨天夜里在索尔兹伯里接受了警方盘问。

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2. That was the first time Elliot stayed out all night.

那是埃利奥特第一次彻夜未归。

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3. Last night he was being held in solitary confinement in Douglas jail.

昨晚他被单独监禁在道格拉斯的监狱里。

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4. Last night we hitched the horse to the cart and moved here.

昨晚我们套上马车，拉着东西搬到了这里。

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5. I suggest we gather enough firewood to last the night.

我建议大家捡足够多的木柴来撑过这一晚。

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night 实用场景例句

These animals only come out at night .

这些动物只在夜晚出来。

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They sleep by day and hunt by night .

他们白天睡觉，夜晚捕猎。

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The accident happened on Friday night.

事故发生在星期五夜里。

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on the night of 10 January/January 10

在1月10日晚上

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Did you hear the storm last night ?

昨天夜里下大雨，你听见了吗？

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I lay awake all night .

我一夜没睡着。

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Where did you spend the night ?

你是在哪里过夜的？

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You're welcome to stay the night here.

欢迎你在这里留宿。

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What is he doing calling at this time of night ?

他干吗这么晚了还打电话？

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You'll feel better after you've had a good night's sleep .

你好好睡一夜就会觉得好些了。

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The trip was for ten nights.

这次旅行要住十个晚上。

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The hotel costs €65 per person per night .

住这家酒店，每人每天要65欧元。

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the night train/boat/flight

夜间列车 / 轮船 / 飞机班次

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Night fell (= it became dark) .

夜幕降临。

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Let's go out on Saturday night .

我们星期六晚上出去吧。

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Bill's parents came for dinner last night .

昨天晚上，比尔的父母来吃晚饭了。

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He didn't sleep a wink all night...

他一夜没合眼。

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The fighting began in the late afternoon and continued all night...

战斗在傍晚时分打响，持续了一夜。

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So whose party was it last night?...

那么，昨晚的聚会是谁办的？

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Demiris took Catherine to dinner the following night.

第二天晚上，德米里斯请凯瑟琳共进晚餐。

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The first night crowd packed the building.

第一个夜场演出爆满。

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...election night.

选举之夜

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It's eleven o'clock at night in Moscow...

现在是莫斯科晚间11点。

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He works obsessively from 7.15 am to 9 or 10 at night.

他工作极为投入，会从早上七点一刻一直干到晚上九十点。

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He was going to college at night, in order to become an accountant...

为了成为会计师，他上夜校学习。

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The veranda was equipped with heavy wooden rain doors that were kept closed at night.

阳台装有厚重的木制防雨门，夜里是关着的。

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Dozens of doctors and nurses have been working day and night for weeks...

很多医生和护士已经夜以继日地工作数周了。

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He was at my door night and day, demanding my attention.

他日日夜夜呆在我门口，想引起我的注意。

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I've had a hell of a day, and all I want is an early night...

这一天糟透了，我就想早点上床睡觉。

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In spite of the travelling and the late night, she did not feel tired.

尽管旅途劳顿，而且睡得很晚，她并没觉得累。

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