the dead of night
基本解释
- 夜深人静时
- 夜静更深时
英汉例句
- I would hear cries and screams in the dead of night.
寂静的夜里,我可以听到哭喊尖叫声。 - Many a puzzled neighbour saw their privet hedges trimmed in the dead of night so I could get fodder for my caterpillars.
很多不知就里的邻居会发现他们的女贞树篱在夜深人静时被人剪了,那是因为我要给我的毛虫找吃的。 - Or that time in the deep Ozarks when someone spent several hours intermittently knocking on my door in the dead of night.
还有一次,远在小城欧萨克,夜晚静悄悄的,有人过一段时间就来敲打我的房门,一连持续了几个小时。 - And now at the dead hour of the night, in the horrible silence of that old house, so strange a noise as this excited me to uncontrollable terror.
- In the dead of night, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) administratively reclassified airport security screeners as Transportation Security Officers.
FORBES: The TSA Is Coming To A Highway Near You - The movement targeted logging companies, S.U.V. dealerships, and slaughterhouses, burning empty workplaces down in the dead of night (no one was ever hurt).
NEWYORKER: If a Tree Falls
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词组短语
- the dead of the night 深夜
- in the dead of night 三更半夜;黑更半夜;夜深人静之时
- at the dead of night 指夜深人静的时候