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Picture going to sleep with things one way and waking to find the night has passed over them. Literally that is a stay from evening to morning; used as an , it is a change so fast that it seems to have happened while everyone was asleep.

可以想成：睡前是一個樣子，一覺醒來，夜晚已經從那件事上面跨過去了。照字面看，就是從晚上待到隔天早上；當成誇飾用時，就…更多收起可以想成：睡前是一個樣子，一覺醒來，夜晚已經從那件事上面跨過去了。照字面看，就是從晚上待到隔天早上；當成誇飾用時，就是變化快到好像大家睡著的那一夜之間就完成了。

From the picture

一夜之間的劇變

把「一夜」當成誇飾的單位：不是真的只花一晚，而是快到讓人覺得中間好像沒有過程。

very suddenly · r · B1

Very suddenly or surprisingly quickly, as if something changed in a single night.

一夜之間／突然

Also in this word

during the night · r · B1

For or during the night, especially staying somewhere from the evening until the next morning.

過夜／整晚

overnight (adj, during the night) · adjective · B1

Happening or used during the night, or lasting from one evening until the next morning.

過夜的／夜間的

原始詞典資料11 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。

overnightadv/əʊvə(ɹ)ˈnaɪt/

  • 1

    During or throughout the night, especially during the evening or night just past.

    • Let it run overnight and we'll check on it in the morning.
    • They delivered the package overnight.
  • 2

    In a very short (but unspecified) amount of time.

    • The change seemed to happen overnight.
    • Overnight, the vivacious young actress became a caricature, a relic of the previous decade, whose hard-partying socialite image seemed frivolous and out of touch amid the ensuing years of the Great Depression.

overnightadj/əʊvə(ɹ)ˈnaɪt/

  • 1

    Occurring between dusk and dawn.

    • The overnight ferry docked at 10 a.m.
  • 2

    Complete before the next morning.

    • Don't expect overnight delivery.
    • Federal Express handled 225 million overnight and second-day packages, cornering a 50-percent share of the entire domestic overnight market[…].
  • 3

    For which participants stay overnight.

    • They sent their kids to overnight camp.
    • We went on an overnight ski trip.

overnightverb/əʊvə(ɹ)ˈnaɪt/

  • 1

    To stay overnight; to spend the night.

    • His visits to Paris (which he had not allowed his son to visit until he was a teenager) became less frequent too: he never over-nighted there, for example, after 1744.
  • 2

    To send something for delivery the next day.

    • We can overnight you the documents for signature.

overnightnoun/əʊvə(ɹ)ˈnaɪt/

  • 1

    An item delivered or completed overnight.

    • Have you looked at the overnights yet?
  • 2

    An overnight stay, especially in a hotel or other lodging facility.

    • Some will also have to work less coveted schedules like overnights and weekends just to start building their career and demo tape.
  • 3

    broadcastingmediatelevisionViewership ratings for a television show that are published the morning after it is broadcast, and may be revised later on.

    • Word spread that Barney was on his way out to the location and that the Nielsen overnights had been terrific, or why else would he come.
    • The TV critic had the results of the June rating survey by Arbitron and Nielsen. […] He has the hard numbers on the June book plus the recent Nielsen overnights.
  • 4

    obsoleteThe fore part of the previous night; yesterday evening.

    • Pardon me, madam: If I had given you this at overnight, She might have been o'erta'en

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。