the dead of night
常見例句
- I would hear cries and screams in the dead of night.
寂靜的夜里，我可以聽到哭喊尖叫聲。 - Many a puzzled neighbour saw their privet hedges trimmed in the dead of night so I could get fodder for my caterpillars.
很多不知就里的鄰居會發(fā)現(xiàn)他們的女貞樹籬在夜深人靜時被人剪了，那是因為我要給我的毛蟲找吃的。 - Or that time in the deep Ozarks when someone spent several hours intermittently knocking on my door in the dead of night.
還有一次，遠在小城歐薩克，夜晚靜悄悄的，有人過一段時間就來敲打我的房門，一連持續(xù)了幾個小時。 - And now at the dead hour of the night, in the horrible silence of that old house, so strange a noise as this excited me to uncontrollable terror.
- In the dead of night, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) administratively reclassified airport security screeners as Transportation Security Officers.
FORBES: The TSA Is Coming To A Highway Near You - The movement targeted logging companies, S.U.V. dealerships, and slaughterhouses, burning empty workplaces down in the dead of night (no one was ever hurt).
NEWYORKER: If a Tree Falls 返回 the dead of night