| 单词 | midnight hour |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmidnight hour midnight hour n. the hour of midnight; each of the hours around midnight. ΚΠ c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iv. 6306 (MED) Þei, allas..At mydnyȝt hour a-bedde laie slepynge. a1450 [see sense B. 1]. 1596 Edward III (1897) iii. ii. 20 A tongue-tied feare hath made a midnight houre, And speeches sleepe through all the waking regions. 1645 J. Milton Il Penseroso in Poems 40 Or let my Lamp at midnight hour, Be seen in som high lonely Towr. 1773 M. Warren Adulateur ii The ghost of freedom haunts his midnight hours. 1864 W. W. Skeat tr. J. L. Uhland Songs & Ballads 319 Within the gray church-tower The hammer strikes the midnight hour. 1997 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Aug. 54/3 The ‘stroke of the midnight hour’ proclaimed India's independence on August 15, 1947. < as lemmas |
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