nightfall是什么意思？

nightfall

英[ˈnaɪtfɔ:l] 美[ˈnaɪtˌfɔl]

• n. 黄昏，傍晚，曛；

例句

• At nightfall, he returned to the rickshaw yard dead - beat and preoccupied. 晚上, 他回到车厂,身上已极疲乏,但是还不肯忘了这件事.
• The company was not attempting to run cars after nightfall. 公司天黑之后就不再出车.
• I need to get to Lyon by nightfall. 我需要在黄昏前到达里昂。
• A Bedouin tribal elder tends camels at nightfall in Sahamah, Oman. 黄昏的阿曼,萨哈马,一位贝多因部落的老人正驱赶一只骆驼.
• I started work at dawn and returned only at nightfall. 我披星戴月地工作。
• I need to get to Lyon by nightfall... 我需要在黄昏前到达里昂。
• They were trying to make New Orleans by nightfall. 他们力图在黄昏前赶到新奥尔良。

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-UNCOUNT
  黄昏;傍晚;日暮
  Nightfall is the time of day when it starts to get dark.
  例句
  I need to get to Lyon by nightfall... 我需要在黄昏前到达里昂。 I started work at dawn and returned only at nightfall. 我披星戴月地工作。

英英词典释义

• Noun
  1. the time of day immediately following sunset;
  "he loved the twilight""they finished before the fall of night"