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all-night

/awl-nahyt/US // ˈɔlˌnaɪt //

通宵,通宵达旦,彻夜,彻夜不眠

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : taking up, extending through, or occurring continually during an entire night; nightlong: an all-night vigil.
    • : open all night, as for business; providing services, accommodations, etc., at all hours of the night: an all-night restaurant.

Examples

  • But along with the cartoon funk is an all-too-real story of police brutality embodied by a horde of evil Pigs.

  • People watch night soaps because the genre allows them to believe in a world where people just react off their baser instincts.

  • The benefits of incumbency are quite potent, especially in the all-important area of raising campaign funds.

  • On Dec. 22, 1799, Sands told her cousins that she would be leaving to elope with a fellow boarder named Levi Weeks that night.

  • As of Thursday night, the brothers remained on the loose, last seen in northern France.

  • The night wore on, and the clock downstairs was striking the hour of two when she suddenly awakened.

  • Without preface, he abruptly asked, what had been told him of the Duke of Wharton's behaviour the preceding night.

  • Nevertheless the evening and the night passed away without incident.

  • While they were doing this, he assembled the officers around him, and the meaning of our night march was explained to us.

  • Last night I saw Jean Baptiste lying prone upon the floor, and knew that she had beaten him down to it, and he had not resisted.