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lady of the night

/ley-dee-uhv-thuh-nahyt/US // ˈleɪ di əv ðəˈnaɪt //

夜晚的女人,夜晚的女士,夜色中的女人,夜色中的女士

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural la·dies-of-the-night.

    • : a tropical American shrub, Brunfelsia americana, of the nightshade family, having berrylike yellow fruit and fragrant white flowers.

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Examples

  • France 24 is providing live, round-the-clock coverage of both scenes as they progress.

  • I wonder what that lady is doing now, and if she knows what she set in motion with Archer?

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

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

  • Sands was involved in a scandalous-for-the-time romance with the carpenter and there were rumors she was pregnant with his child.

  • 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.

  • Sleek finds it far harder work than fortune-making; but he pursues his Will-o'-the-Wisp with untiring energy.

  • The lady in black was reading her morning devotions on the porch of a neighboring bathhouse.