| 释义 |
三更半夜sān gēng bàn yèat midnight;in the middle (/dead) of the night; late into the night;the third watch at night
❍ 她经常～，等孩子们睡着后，一个人伴着洋油灯做针线。(李六如《六十年的变迁》 Ⅰ—23) About midnight when the children had gone to sleep,she would sit by the oil-lamp doing some needlework，…/这会子打他几下子没要紧，明儿叫他们背地里嚼舌根，倒说～的打人了。(《红楼梦》1307) If I were to give her a few whacks,they’d start accusing us behind our backs of beating people at midnight.
❍ 放着尸不挺，～嚎你娘的丧！ (《红楼梦》1306) Is your mother dead that you’re wailing like this in the middle of the night?/如今听姑娘这话，想来我们求她，她不好推辞，不知他在家里怎么～的做呢！(《红楼梦》391)After what you’ve said,miss,I realize she couldn’t very well refuse but she probably has to work late into the night at home.
❍ 每日叫他出门讨赊帐，讨到～不来家…… (《儒林外史》254) I send him out every day to collect debts,and he often stays out till midnight.有事没事，跑了来坐着，叫我们～的不得睡觉！(《红楼梦》312)❶She keeps coming here and sitting around for no reason,keeping us up till the third watch at night.
❷…people who were always inventing excuses to come dropping in and who kept other people staying up half the night when they would like to be in bed. 三更半夜late at(/in the depth of)night |