英语词汇“old year's night”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

attributive and in the genitive. Chiefly South African and Caribbean. Designating the last day (or night) of the old year, and festivities to mark this; esp. in Old Year's Day, Old Year's Night. Cf. New Year n. Compounds 2.

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1648 E. Davies Of Gen. Great Day's Approach 14 Like Antipodes the Hebrew and Greek; and so of the Old-year end, married to New-years day.

1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone I. xiii. 147 Forth they rode on the Old Year-morning, not with any view to business, but purely in search of mischief.

c1885 W. Laidlaw Poetry & Prose (1901) 34 And Jethart bairns, on Auld Year's day, Would get their cakes for Hogmanay.

1897 R. M. Stuart In Simpkinsville i. 14 They got him to come to the old year party one year, jest for the fun of it.

1956 S. Selvon Lonely Londoners (1995) 132 I always want to take a trip to bonny Scotland, I hear Old Years is big fete there.

1973 Express (Port of Spain, Trinidad) 4 Feb. 3 Who could afford to turn up unwashed at an Old Year's fete?

1982 E. Lovelace Shoemaker Arnold in Brief Conversat. (1988) 127 Look how cool he working in my shoemaker shop this big Old Year's day when all over the island people feteing.

1983 G. Butler Bursting World xi. 278 On Old Year's Night we had a hell of a party.

1987 A. Soule et al. Wynand du Toit Story 119 My next surprise came early in the morning on Old Year's Day.

1995 Church Times 6 Jan. 7/1 The son of a crane-slinger from Canning town, born in 1901, when asked if his parents attended church, replied ‘Oh yes—..they would nearly always go on Old Year's Night’.

单词	old year's night
释义	> as lemmas Old Year's Night attributive and in the genitive. Chiefly South African and Caribbean. Designating the last day (or night) of the old year, and festivities to mark this; esp. in Old Year's Day, Old Year's Night. Cf. New Year n. Compounds 2. ΚΠ 1648 E. Davies Of Gen. Great Day's Approach 14 Like Antipodes the Hebrew and Greek; and so of the Old-year end, married to New-years day. 1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone I. xiii. 147 Forth they rode on the Old Year-morning, not with any view to business, but purely in search of mischief. c1885 W. Laidlaw Poetry & Prose (1901) 34 And Jethart bairns, on Auld Year's day, Would get their cakes for Hogmanay. 1897 R. M. Stuart In Simpkinsville i. 14 They got him to come to the old year party one year, jest for the fun of it. 1956 S. Selvon Lonely Londoners (1995) 132 I always want to take a trip to bonny Scotland, I hear Old Years is big fete there. 1973 Express (Port of Spain, Trinidad) 4 Feb. 3 Who could afford to turn up unwashed at an Old Year's fete? 1982 E. Lovelace Shoemaker Arnold in Brief Conversat. (1988) 127 Look how cool he working in my shoemaker shop this big Old Year's day when all over the island people feteing. 1983 G. Butler Bursting World xi. 278 On Old Year's Night we had a hell of a party. 1987 A. Soule et al. Wynand du Toit Story 119 My next surprise came early in the morning on Old Year's Day. 1995 Church Times 6 Jan. 7/1 The son of a crane-slinger from Canning town, born in 1901, when asked if his parents attended church, replied ‘Oh yes—..they would nearly always go on Old Year's Night’. extracted from old yearn. < as lemmas
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