单词 | last night |
释义 | > as lemmaslast night (a) Of a division of a day, in singular: of or belonging to yesterday, as last evening, † last morning, last night, etc. ΘΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > yesterday > [adverb] yesterdayOE lasta1400 this hinder day1487 yesternight1546 yester1647 yestern?1745 the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > newness or novelty > recency > [adjective] > most recent > of a time, period, or season last past1398 lasta1400 the world > time > relative time > the past > yesterday > [adverb] > yesterday morning yestermorninga1586 last morninga1616 yestermorn1702 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 16122 A siȝt Þat she in hir slepyng say: þis ilke laste nyȝt. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection i. sig. Fvi I am the soule of hym that thou watched the last nyght. 1588 Narr. Def. Berghen 21 Sept. in Ancaster MSS (Hist. MSS. Comm.) (1907) 205 The Enemy being this last night comen nearer to the Towne. a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) ii. i. 74 Last morning You could not see to wipe my shooes. View more context for this quotation 1677 London Gaz. No. 1245/3 This last night a small Fisher Boat..was driving in this Bay for Herrings. 1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd i. i. Song i Last Morning I was gay and early out. 1769 H. Walpole Let. 30 Aug. (1857) V. 183 She and I went to the Boulevard last night after supper. 1776 W. Heath Let. 10 Dec. in J. Judd Corr. Van Cortlandt Family (1977) 150 The last evening I received orders from his Excellency George Washington to cross the North River. 1816 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto III xxviii. 17 Last noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty's circle proudly gay. 1862 G. A. Sala Twice around Clock 54 The freshest news of last night's fire in Holborn, or last night's division in the House, or last night's opera at Her Majesty's. 1905 Washington Post 15 July 13/3 Laurel Fire Company, No. 2, met last evening and elected the following officers for the ensuing term. 1982 M. Gibson Long Walks in Afternoon (1985) 62 Only last afternoon I walked down the fireroad that winds through these woods. 2013 N.Y. Times 6 Jan. (Late ed.) (Review section) 5/4 I'm trying to watch a video of a nipple slip from last night's episode of ‘Real Housewives of Atlanta’. < as lemmas |
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