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nocturnal

/nɑkˈtɝ.nəl/ 名词 C2

中文: 夜行生物、夜晷

  1. A person or creature that is active at night.
  2. A device for telling the time at night, rather like a sundial but read according to the stars.

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In this way my second link was formed, which told me that the nocturnal visitors were two in number, one remarkable for his height (as I calculated from the length of his stride), and the other fashionably dressed, to judge from the small and elegant impression left by his boots.
《A Study in Scarlet》,第81页 · B2
What was this nocturnal expedition, and why should I go armed?
《The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes》,第22页 · B2
“What becomes, then, of these nocturnal whistles, and what of the very peculiar words of the dying woman?”
《The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes》,第49页 · B2
That night he went out as usual for his nocturnal walk, in the course of which he was in the habit of smoking a cigar.
《The Hound of the Baskervilles》,第18页 · C1

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