n.
    
      - 夜;晚上[C][U]
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We arrived at the village before 
night fell.
我們在夜幕降臨前到達那個村莊。
They stayed three 
nights at the hotel.
他們在旅館裡住了三夜。
 
      - (夜晚的)活動;(演出的)夜場[C]
 
      - 黑暗;黑暗時期[C]
 
    
    a.
    
      - 夜晚的,夜間的
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I took the 
night train to the town.
我乘夜車到那個城鎮去。
 
      - 夜晚使用的
 
      - 夜晚活動的;夜間工作的
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She is a 
night nurse.
她是值夜班的護士。
 
    
   
  片語
  
    all night (long)
    
      - 整夜
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She sat by her sick husband 
all night.
她整夜坐在生病的丈夫身邊。
 
    
    at night
    
      - 在夜裡
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They usually keep a light on 
at night.
他們通常夜裡開著燈。
 
    
    by night
    
      - 在夜間
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He used to work in an office by day and drive a taxi 
by night.
他過去白天在辦公室上班,晚上開計程車。
 
    
    have a good night
    
      - 睡得好
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I haven't 
had a good night for so long.
我已經很久沒睡好覺了。
 
    
    have/take a night off
    
      - 晚上不工作
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I will 
have a night off today.
我今天晚上不工作了。
 
    
    in the night
    
      - 在夜裡
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I woke up several times 
in the night.
我夜裡醒過好幾次。
 
    
    night after night
    
      - 一夜又一夜地
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He went out drinking 
night after night.
他每天晚上出去喝酒。
 
    
    night and day
    
      - 日以繼夜地
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They had been traveling 
night and day for a whole week.
他們日夜兼程已有整整一星期。
 
    
    What is done by night appears by day.
    
      - 若要人不知,除非己莫為。
 
    
   
  辨析
  
 
  n.
   - the time from sunset to sunrise. 
▸this as the interval between two days.
 - the darkness of night. 
▸literary nightfall.
 - an evening.
 
adv.
 
(
nights)
 
informal, chiefly N. Amer. at night.
exclam.
 informal goodnight.
 
  Derivative
  
  Etymology
  OE neaht, niht, of Gmc origin.