the dead of night

常见例句

双语例句

• I would hear cries and screams in the dead of night.
  寂静的夜里，我可以听到哭喊尖叫声。
• Many a puzzled neighbour saw their privet hedges trimmed in the dead of night so I could get fodder for my caterpillars.
  很多不知就里的邻居会发现他们的女贞树篱在夜深人静时被人剪了，那是因为我要给我的毛虫找吃的。
• Or that time in the deep Ozarks when someone spent several hours intermittently knocking on my door in the dead of night.
  还有一次，远在小城欧萨克，夜晚静悄悄的，有人过一段时间就来敲打我的房门，一连持续了几个小时。

原声例句

• 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.

权威例句

• 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
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