benight
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
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benightverb/bɪˈnaɪt/
- 1
archaicTo overtake (a traveller etc) with the darkness of night, especially before shelter is reached.
- How far might I have been on my way by this time! I am made to tread thoſe ſteps thrice over, which I needed not to have trod but once: Yea now alſo I am like to be benighted, for the day is almost ſpent.
- [H]e struck off the common road, to take the benefit of a nearer cut; and finding himself benighted near a village, took up his lodging at the first inn to which his horse directed him.
- 2
archaicTo darken; to shroud or obscure.
- The King with half the East at heel is marched from lands of morning; / Their fighters drink the rivers up, their shafts benight the air.
- 3
archaicTo plunge or be overwhelmed in moral or intellectual darkness.
- Can we whose souls are lighted With Wisdom from on high, Can we to men benighted The lamp of life deny?
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。