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    /ˈmɪdnaɪt/

    Twelve o'clock at night, the exact middle of the night.

    午夜 / 半夜十二點

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核心畫面

Picture the clock hands both pointing straight up in the dark. It is the middle of the night, and it is also the seam where one day ends and the next begins — which is why so many rules and deadlines are set exactly there.

可以想成：黑夜裡，時鐘的兩根針一起直直指向上面。那是夜晚的正中間，同時也是一天結束、下一天開始的接縫——所以很多規定…更多收起可以想成：黑夜裡，時鐘的兩根針一起直直指向上面。那是夜晚的正中間，同時也是一天結束、下一天開始的接縫——所以很多規定和截止時間都剛好定在這一刻。

原始詞典資料4 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

midnightnoun/ˈmɪd(ˌ)naɪt/

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    The middle of the night: the sixth temporal hour, equidistant between sunset and sunrise.

    • Thanks to its sonar, the narwhal can remain active even at midnight, unhindered by the darkness.
    • And he [Jesus] ſayde vnto thẽ [them]: which of you ſhall have a frende and ſhall goo to hym att mydnyght⸝ and ſaye vnto hym: frende lende me foure loves for a frende of myne is come out off the waye to me⸝ and I have nothynge to ſett before hĩ [him]⸝ And he within ſhall andſwer and ſaye: Trouble me nott⸝ nowe is the doore ſhett⸝ and my ſervaunttꝭ [servaunttis, i.e., servants] are with me in the chamber⸝ I cannot ryſe and geve thẽ to the [them to thee]. I ſaye vnto you: though he woll not aryſe and geve hym⸝ becauſe he is his frende: Yet becauſe of hys importunitie he woll ryſe and geve him as many as he nedeth.
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    Twelve o'clock at night exactly.

    • She twisted her hands behind her; but all the knots held good! / She writhed her hands till her fingers were wet with sweat or blood! / They stretched and strained in the darkness, and the hours crawled by like years, / Till, now, on the stroke of midnight, / Cold, on the stroke of midnight, / The tip of one finger touched it! The trigger at least was hers!
    • The police report said that officers, who told CNN they are not currently pursuing criminal charges, arrived to the scene just after midnight and found Gillum and a second person, Aldo Mejias, in the hotel room.
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    dicegamesSynonym of boxcars (“a pair of sixes”).

midnightadj/ˈmɪd(ˌ)naɪt/

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    Utterly dark or black.

    • Free and falling, his midnight hair flowed out all around us like a silk canopy.

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。