Evening

(noun.) the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall); 'he enjoyed the evening light across the lake'.

(noun.) the early part of night (from dinner until bedtime) spent in a special way; 'an evening at the opera'.

(noun.) a later concluding time period; 'it was the evening of the Roman Empire'.

整理:莫顿

• He thought no more of the matter until he heard in the evening of the tragedy that had occurred. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Heaven and Evening gazed back on her. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Mr Wegg nods to the face, 'Good evening. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• I felt I might, without indelicacy, because the evening she dined with us she rather suggested . 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• Good evening, Mr Venus. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• My first most vivid and broad impression of the identity of things seems to me to have been gained on a memorable raw afternoon towards evening. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• But he came regularly every evening and sat without his coat, with his head against the wall, as though he would have helped us if he had known how. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Whereas, it must be evident to yourself, as it is to me, that you have been this evening very different from what you were before. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• That evening, of course, Celia knew nothing of what had happened. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• I did not arrive here till Tuesday evening. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• She enjoyed herself very much that evening, for she danced to her heart's content. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Mr. Wopsle, as the ill-requited uncle of the evening's tragedy, fell to meditating aloud in his garden at Camberwell. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• But what did you hear about her second attack of faintness yesterday evening? 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Why, the house is closed--Judy telephoned me from Bellomont this evening. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• But I had acted enough for one evening; it was time I retired into myself and my ordinary life. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• The scene of that afternoon was repeated that evening, and on the three afternoons and evenings next ensuing. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Stay here and dine, stay here and help us to spend our last evening with you as happily, as like our first evenings, as we can. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• The excursionists danced, on three separate evenings, long, long ago, (it seems an age. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Draw your chair up and hand me my violin, for the only problem we have still to solve is how to while away these bleak autumnal evenings. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• The Semites had no long winter evenings and no bardic singing. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• But the evenings were rather difficult to fill up agreeably. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• To conceal from my friends the stinted manner in which I lived, I was in the habit of bringing my food to my room in the evenings, and this was my mode of life for many years. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• I might look in there now; the Fisher evenings are amusing. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Not only that evening, but for several succeeding evenings, Clennam was quite charmed by this investigation. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• After dinner we played at cards; and, when we had concluded one of the most stupid evenings possible, Worcester and I took our leave. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• It was one of those summer evenings when there is no greater darkness than a long twilight. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• I wish you could tell me of some secret plan that would help me to keep him home at my will in the evenings. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• There was little profit in trying to grow much cotton at such a rate, and most of the cotton picking was done by the negroes in the evenings, when the harder labor of the fields was finished. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• They were a wretched waste of the evenings; and now, when he had talked a little more to Rosamond, he meant to excuse himself and go. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• There must be a sort of shyness; but I cannot recollect that our evenings formerly were ever merry, except when my uncle was in town. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.

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