英语词汇“nights and —— days”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

a. With a numeral or with many, etc., to measure duration or lapse of time; spec. (a) denoting a continuous period of time containing the specified number of nights; (b) —— days and —— nights (also —— nights and —— days): denoting a continuous period of time containing the specified number of days and nights.In Old English and frequently in Middle English with unmarked plural.

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the world > time > day and night > night > [noun] > marking lapse of time

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eOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Parker) anno 871 Þæs ymb iii niht ridon ii eorlas up.

OE Cynewulf Crist II 540 Bidon ealle þær þegnas þrymfulle þeodnes gehata in þære torhtan byrig tyn niht.

lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 1004 Se here com þa to Þeodforda..& þær binnon ane niht wæron.

c1175 ( Homily (Bodl. 343) in S. Irvine Old Eng. Homilies (1993) 166 Ða embe six niht æfter þan þe Crist heom þas word sæde, he nom mid him þa his þreo leorningcnihtæs.

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) 4506 Næuede heo bute þreo nihte feorst faren þat heo scolde.

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) 15512 Fulle þreo nihten [c1300 Otho nihtes] heore craftes heo dihten.

?1316 Short Metrical Chron. (Royal) 157 in J. Ritson Anc. Eng. Metrical Romanceës (1802) II. 276 (MED) Ther spac an ern prophecie, Thre dawes and thre nyht.

c1390 (?c1350) Joseph of Arimathie (1871) l. 6 (MED) Me þinkeþ but þreo niȝt al þis ilke þrowe.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 12926 (MED) Iesus..fasted..Fourti night and fourti dais.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) 14941 Sex niȝtes be-fore pask-day.

a1425 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (1987) iv. 588 Ek wonder last but nyne nyght nevere in towne.

1485 Malory's Morte Darthur (Caxton) iv. xxvi. sig. h^v Within seuen nyghtes his damoysel brought hym to an erles place.

a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 153 (MED) Nero..makyd the Cite of Rome afyre to sette, and Sewyn dayes and Sewyn nyghtes to brente.

1531 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. ix. ii, in R. W. Chambers & E. C. Batho Chronicles of Scotl. (1938) i. 357 Ane fyry comete was sene mony nychtis with lang bemys.

1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing ii. iii. 17 Now wil he lie ten nights awake caruing the fashion of a new dublet.

1623 J. Webster Dutchesse of Malfy v. ii. sig. M2 Two of her yong children, foure nights since Were strangled.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 63 The space of seven continu'd Nights he rode.

1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey II. vi. 205 Twice ten tempestuous nights I roll'd.

1774 J. Woolman Jrnl. I. 304 I went to his house and the next day home, where I tarried two nights.

1798 J. Austen Let. 18 Dec. (1995) 26 Your scheme..(which you communicated to me a few nights ago).

1817 P. B. Shelley Laon & Cythna xii. xxxviii. 269 Three days and nights we sailed.

1844 E. B. Barrett Duchess May in Poems II. 66 And the castle, seethed in blood, fourteen days and nights had stood.

1891 Daily News 3 Mar. 3/1 A man was almost always five nights in bed before being called upon to spend a night out.

1932 G. Greene Stamboul Train i. i. 4 Three nights in a train. It's no joke.

1952 Life 17 Nov. 105 (caption) Night and day for 19 days and 18 nights, six Studebakers traveled around the famous old Atlantic City board track in 1928.

1991 Daily Tel. 5 Jan. (Weekend Suppl.) 12/1 Some of those booking at the last minute had paid as little as £99 for eight nights' b & b and an evening meal in Zakopane.

单词	nights and —— days
释义	> as lemmas —— nights and —— days a. With a numeral or with many, etc., to measure duration or lapse of time; spec. (a) denoting a continuous period of time containing the specified number of nights; (b) —— days and —— nights (also —— nights and —— days): denoting a continuous period of time containing the specified number of days and nights.In Old English and frequently in Middle English with unmarked plural. ΘΚΠ the world > time > day and night > night > [noun] > marking lapse of time nighteOE eOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Parker) anno 871 Þæs ymb iii niht ridon ii eorlas up. OE Cynewulf Crist II 540 Bidon ealle þær þegnas þrymfulle þeodnes gehata in þære torhtan byrig tyn niht. lOE Anglo-Saxon Chron. (Laud) anno 1004 Se here com þa to Þeodforda..& þær binnon ane niht wæron. c1175 ( Homily (Bodl. 343) in S. Irvine Old Eng. Homilies (1993) 166 Ða embe six niht æfter þan þe Crist heom þas word sæde, he nom mid him þa his þreo leorningcnihtæs. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) 4506 Næuede heo bute þreo nihte feorst faren þat heo scolde. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) 15512 Fulle þreo nihten [c1300 Otho nihtes] heore craftes heo dihten. ?1316 Short Metrical Chron. (Royal) 157 in J. Ritson Anc. Eng. Metrical Romanceës (1802) II. 276 (MED) Ther spac an ern prophecie, Thre dawes and thre nyht. c1390 (?c1350) Joseph of Arimathie (1871) l. 6 (MED) Me þinkeþ but þreo niȝt al þis ilke þrowe. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 12926 (MED) Iesus..fasted..Fourti night and fourti dais. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) 14941 Sex niȝtes be-fore pask-day. a1425 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (1987) iv. 588 Ek wonder last but nyne nyght nevere in towne. 1485 Malory's Morte Darthur (Caxton) iv. xxvi. sig. h^v Within seuen nyghtes his damoysel brought hym to an erles place. a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 153 (MED) Nero..makyd the Cite of Rome afyre to sette, and Sewyn dayes and Sewyn nyghtes to brente. 1531 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. ix. ii, in R. W. Chambers & E. C. Batho Chronicles of Scotl. (1938) i. 357 Ane fyry comete was sene mony nychtis with lang bemys. 1600 W. Shakespeare Much Ado about Nothing ii. iii. 17 Now wil he lie ten nights awake caruing the fashion of a new dublet. View more context for this quotation 1623 J. Webster Dutchesse of Malfy v. ii. sig. M2 Two of her yong children, foure nights since Were strangled. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 63 The space of seven continu'd Nights he rode. View more context for this quotation 1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey II. vi. 205 Twice ten tempestuous nights I roll'd. 1774 J. Woolman Jrnl. I. 304 I went to his house and the next day home, where I tarried two nights. 1798 J. Austen Let. 18 Dec. (1995) 26 Your scheme..(which you communicated to me a few nights ago). 1817 P. B. Shelley Laon & Cythna xii. xxxviii. 269 Three days and nights we sailed. 1844 E. B. Barrett Duchess May in Poems II. 66 And the castle, seethed in blood, fourteen days and nights had stood. 1891 Daily News 3 Mar. 3/1 A man was almost always five nights in bed before being called upon to spend a night out. 1932 G. Greene Stamboul Train i. i. 4 Three nights in a train. It's no joke. 1952 Life 17 Nov. 105 (caption) Night and day for 19 days and 18 nights, six Studebakers traveled around the famous old Atlantic City board track in 1928. 1991 Daily Tel. 5 Jan. (Weekend Suppl.) 12/1 Some of those booking at the last minute had paid as little as £99 for eight nights' b & b and an evening meal in Zakopane. extracted from nightn.int. < as lemmas
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