Picture the stretch after the afternoon and before bed: the light going, work finished, the part of the day people fill with dinner, class or a concert. From that slot come an event that fills it, a habit that repeats in it, and the greeting you use while you are inside it.

可以想成:下午之後、睡覺之前的那一段——天色暗下來、工作結束,人們用晚餐、上課或看表演把它填滿。從這個時段延伸出三件事:填滿它的那場活動、每天在這個時段重複的習慣,以及在這段時間見面時說的招呼語。

登入就可以看每一支怎麼連回核心畫面。

原始詞典資料6 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

eveningnoun詞源 1/ˈiːv.nɪŋ/

  • 1

    The time of day between afternoon and night.

    • Toward evening, there was heavy rain.
    • I met my wife on a summer's evening in 1999.
  • 2

    The time of the day between the approximate time of midwinter dusk and midnight (compare afternoon); the period after the end of regular office working hours.

    • At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.[…] In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
    • That the young Mr. Churchills liked—but they did not like him coming round of an evening and drinking weak whisky-and-water while he held forth on railway debentures and corporation loans. Mr Barrett, however, by fawning and flattery, seemed to be able to make not only Mrs. Churchill but everyone else do what he desired.
  • 3

    A concluding time period; a point in time near the end of something; the beginning of the end of something.

    • It was the evening of the Roman Empire.
    • The latter [locomotive] had worked on the Hampton Court branch for many years, and was spending the evening of its life in the West Country.
  • 4

    A party or gathering held in the evening.

    • A few Gorllewin Cymru/West Wales Branch members attended an evening at the Dragon Hotel, Swansea, titled Photographic Techniques in Industry.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:

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