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单词 lights out
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lights out
c. lights out: a direction that lights must be extinguished at the end of the day (originally Military and conveyed by a bugle call, subsequently in other institutions, such as schools, prisons, etc., and in extended use); (also) the time at which this comes into force. Also as a modifier, as in lights-out time.
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1864 Leader (Melbourne) 26 Mar. 14/3 Lights out will be sounded at ten minutes before ten.
1868 Queen's Regulations Army §845 Between tattoo and reveille no trumpet or bugle is to be sounded,..with the exception of the call ‘lights out’.
1905 Captain 13 42/2 It's off... We aren't allowed to talk after lights-out!
1942 R.A.F. Jrnl. 13 June 14 There would be no lights-out time, no check-up to ensure every man was in.
1965 G. Jackson Let. June in Soledad Brother (1971) 78 One of those tall ultrabright electrical fixtures used to illuminate the walls and surrounding area at night casts a direct beam of light in my cell at night... Consequently I have enough light, even after the usual twelve o'clock lights-out, to read or study by.
2012 Daily Tel. 3 Sept. 25/6 It was surprising to realise how typical that fondly remembered bedtime ritual was: an early supper, followed by a warm bath, reading (or being read to) for half an hour before ‘lights out’ at 7.30pm.
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