dead of night

基本解釋

IN THE dead of night, an unusual convoy made its way through Lyon earlier this month.
在這個月初，一支不尋常的護(hù)衛(wèi)隊伍在夜深人靜的時候，取道里昂。
For instance, porcupines ate one of the camera sensors and repeatedly raided food supplies during the dead of night, he said.
例如，在夜深人靜的時候，箭豬吃了一個相機(jī)傳感器，還不斷地?fù)寠Z食品給養(yǎng)。
President Zelaya says Honduran troops forcibly removed him from his home in the dead of night and sent him to Costa Rica in his pajamas.
洪都拉斯總統(tǒng)塞拉亞說，軍方動用武力在深夜將他從住所帶走，把穿著睡衣的他送到哥斯達(dá)黎加。

And now at the dead hour of the night, in the horrible silence of that old house, so strange a noise as this excited me to uncontrollable terror.

In the dead of night, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) administratively reclassified airport security screeners as Transportation Security Officers.
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The movement targeted logging companies, S.U.V. dealerships, and slaughterhouses, burning empty workplaces down in the dead of night (no one was ever hurt).
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