单词 | in the night |
释义 | > as lemmasin (also †of, †on, †upon) the night b. in (also †of, †on, †upon) the night: by night, during the night. ΘΚΠ the world > time > day and night > night > [adverb] nightseOE on nightOE in (also of, on, upon) the nightOE by nightlOE on (also in) nightslOE a-nightc1175 a-nightsc1175 at nightc1300 within nightc1400 a-nightertime?a1439 a nighttimes1567 at nights1581 nightly1597 benight1642 nocturnally1812 night-times1851 nitely1970 OE Old Eng. Hexateuch: Exod. (Claud.) xii. 12 Ic fare on ðære nihte ofer eall Egypta land. c1175 ( Homily: Hist. Holy Rood-tree (Bodl. 343) (1894) 26 Ða on þære nihte com hire to godes engel. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) 5601 Al makeden heore faren alse ha wolden a þare niht faren. a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) 611 (MED) Þis seknesse..takeþ me..ten times on þe niȝt. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 6196 Drightin self þam ledd þair wai... Wit firen piler on þe night [c1460 Laud vpon the nyȝt]. ?a1425 Mandeville's Trav. (Egerton) (1889) 117 (MED) Þis charbuncle lightnez all þe chaumbre on þe nyght. c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1904) I. 115 (MED) He was tempid with grete ludificacions on þe nyght. a1475 Sidrak & Bokkus (Lansd.) in Centaurus (1968) 12 217 (MED) Þe sunne of his mighte Chaufeþ þe erthe vpon þe night. c1480 (a1400) St. Theodora 288 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 107 To þat thing has he na sycht þat thocht or don is in þe nycht. a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1546) sig. Ee.vijv She eateth her nothing on the dai nor slepeth in the nyght. 1559 W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 162 When you will verifie your nedle.., you shall use the healpe of the Sunne (and on the night) of some fixed sterre. 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 94 Thair heid..thay neuir couered in the nycht. 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream ii. i. 253 There sleepes Tytania, sometime of the night . View more context for this quotation 1608 Inverurie Burgh Court 26 Apr. All hors..lying out wpone the nycht. c1650 J. Spalding Memorialls Trubles Scotl. & Eng. (1850) I. 278 Monro causit big wp betuixt the crossis ane court de guard, for saifing of his soldiouris fra weit and cauld on the nicht. 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan i. ii. 7 Such persons, as make use of such superstitious feare, to passe disguised in the night, to places they would not be known to haunt. 1722 D. Defoe Moll Flanders 70 He would have me go Home, and in the Night take away every thing I had in the House of any Value and secure it. 1785 T. Jefferson Notes Virginia vi. 131 Their eyes [sc. albinos'] are..very weak..but they see better in the night than we do. 1855 F. Wharton Criminal Law U.S. 598 The breaking and entering must be in the night. 1894 R. Kipling Jungle Bk. 44 The Rock-Snake..steals the young monkeys in the night. 1959 A. Nin Children of Albatross 48 In Donald's eyes shone the fever of futile watches in the night, intrigue, pursuits of the forbidden. 1990 N.Y. Mag. 30 Apr. 52/1 A dog howling in the night. < as lemmas |
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