单词 | all night |
释义 | > as lemmasall (the) night (a) all (the) night: throughout the night. ΘΚΠ the world > time > day and night > night > [adverb] > through or during the night all (the) nighteOE night-longsOE night-longc1300 (all) the long nightc1380 overnight1381 eOE (Mercian) Vespasian Psalter (1965) lxxvii. 16 (14) Eduxit eos in nube diei et tota nocte in inluminatione ignis : utalædde hie in wolcne deges & alle naeht in inlihtnisse fyres. OE Recipe (Vitell. C.iii) in T. O. Cockayne Leechdoms, Wortcunning, & Starcraft (1864) I. 378 Leg siððen þæt wyrt swa wærm abutan þæt heafod & wrið mid claðe, & læt swa beon ealla niht. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 14626 Þa burh born alle niht. a1300 (c1250) Floris & Blauncheflur (Vitell.) (1966) 327 (MED) Heo haueþ iwaked al niȝht. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1969) Isa. lxii. 6 Vp on þi wallis ierusalem I sette keperes al dai & al nyȝt; euermor þei shul not ben stille. c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) 1002 Þat alle naȝt [so] much niye hade no mon in his hert. c1425 tr. J. Arderne Treat. Fistula (Sloane 6) (1910) 32 (MED) Aftir refetyng of mete and drink, he..sleped wele all þe niȝt. a1475 Bk. Curtasye (Sloane 1986) l. 505 in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 315 A morter of wax ȝet wille he bryng..Þat alle nyȝt brennes in bassyn clere. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Gen. xix. A Turne in..in to youre seruauntes house, and tarye all night. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 603 She all night long her amorous descant sung. View more context for this quotation 1722 D. Defoe Moll Flanders 184 Having lain Awake almost all Night, I was very sleepy. 1801 M. Edgeworth Forester in Moral Tales I. 6 He sat all night apart from the company. 1897 B. Stoker Dracula xxvii. 374 It is morning, and I write by a fire which all the night I have kept alive. 1956 S. Selvon Lonely Londoners (1995) 121 Back home, they have non-stop dance, you dance till you fall down on the ground... Why the arse London Transport can't run bus and tube all night for people to go home? 2001 Independent 3 Feb. (Weekend Review section) 8/6 They stay up all night, watching silly films and hooting with laughter. < as lemmas |
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