in the dead of night

常見例句

IN THE dead of night, an unusual convoy made its way through Lyon earlier this month.
在這個(gè)月初，一支不尋常的護(hù)衛(wèi)隊(duì)伍在夜深人靜的時(shí)候，取道里昂。
Many a puzzled neighbour saw their privet hedges trimmed in the dead of night so I could get fodder for my caterpillars.
很多不知就里的鄰居會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)他們的女貞樹籬在夜深人靜時(shí)被人剪了，那是因?yàn)槲乙o我的毛蟲找吃的。
Or that time in the deep Ozarks when someone spent several hours intermittently knocking on my door in the dead of night.
還有一次，遠(yuǎn)在小城歐薩克，夜晚靜悄悄的，有人過一段時(shí)間就來敲打我的房門，一連持續(xù)了幾個(gè)小時(shí)。

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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