| 词汇 | overnight |
| 释义 | overnight adjective, adverb uk /ˌəʊ.vəˈnaɪt/ us /ˌoʊ.vɚˈnaɪt/ overnightadjective, adverb (TIME OF DAY)B1 for or during the night: 一夜间（的）;在夜间（的），在晚上（的） an overnight stop in Paris在巴黎停留过夜 You can stay overnight if you want to.要是你愿意可以住一宿。 Don't forget to pack an overnight bag(= a bag for things that you need when you stay away from home for a night).别忘了收拾在外过夜的用品旅行袋。 Several of the injured were detained overnight in hospital.伤者中有几个人被留院观察了一夜。 The temperature could fall below zero overnight.气温可能一夜间突降到零度以下。 I emptied the closet and put my belongings into the black overnight case.我把壁橱腾空，把我的东西放进那个外出过夜用的黑色旅行袋里。 I'm travelling overnight so I've booked a sleeper. The overnight invasion took the military experts unawares.一夜间突然入侵令军事专家们始料不及。 Days & times of day afternoon afternoons all day am arvo happy hour high noon hour in broad daylightidiom in the dead of night/winteridiom night noon noontime o'clock office hours opening time the witching hour twilit workday working day overnightadjective, adverb (SUDDENLY)C2 suddenly and unexpectedly: 突然（的）;一夜之间（的） She became a star overnight.她一夜之间成了明星。 The book was an overnight success.这本书一举获得成功。 Not expected or planned abrupt end abrupt halt abruptly abruptness ad hoc inadvertence inadvertency inadvertent inadvertently inconceivable sine die spirit spontaneity spontaneous spontaneously unsuspected untimely untoward unwilled unwitting overnight verb uk /ˌəʊ.vəˈnaɪt/ us /ˌoʊ.vɚˈnaɪt/ [ I ] to stay somewhere for a night: We've overnighted at some remote and beautiful places. He overnighted in Detroit before continuing his campaign. [ T ]US to send something to someone so it arrives the next day: He said he needed a new passport urgently, so we overnighted one to him. These truffles are fresh, overnighted from Italy. We decided to overnight at Lake Wanaka. King Charles II once overnighted here on his way to France. We missed our plane and had to overnight in Amsterdam. She overnighted her application. I have been so desperate for brisket that my grandmother overnighted one to me. The salmon is caught in a mountain stream and overnighted to your doorstep. Living or sleeping somewhere abide co-resident co-residential domiciled dwell inhospitable inhospitably live in live in sinidiom live out lodge populate repopulate repopulation reside residence residency settle slum tenancy You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Delivering and despatching overnight | American Dictionaryovernight adjective, adverb[ not gradable ] us/ˈoʊ·vərˈnɑɪt/ for or during the night: You can stay overnight with us if you want to. fig. The book was an overnight success (= a sudden success). overnight | Business Englishovernight adjective uk /ˈəʊvənaɪt/us for or during the night: an overnight stay/stopWe made an overnight stop in Paris. Stocks in Hong Kong closed moderately higher encouraged by overnight gains on Wall Street. sudden and unexpected: Like many so-called overnight successes, she had been working hard for quite some time. overnight adverb uk /ˌəʊvəˈnaɪt/us for or during the night: I took a train overnight. suddenly or quickly, and often unexpectedly: Building a project like this doesn't happen overnight. The company almost overnight reformed itself as a real estate developer. Major capital expenditure is rarely recouped overnight. overnight verb uk /ˌəʊvəˈnaɪt/us [ I ] TRANSPORT to stay somewhere for a night: We overnighted at Frankfurt before flying on to Chennai. [ T ] COMMUNICATIONS US to send a letter or package to be delivered by the end of the next day: I told him to overnight the contract to me. Examples of overnightovernight Security, as much as politics, had led to their ascendancy, and their priorities did not change overnight. Years of efforts at national reconciliation may well have been lost overnight. Venous blood samples were obtained after an overnight fast at the beginning, middle and end of the study. Places for overnight stay might therefore have been chosen with relation to nearby raw materials sources. Our clients were convinced: we built the first flat screen trading room and became world-wide market leaders overnight. The polymer was then dissolved overnight in a small amount of distilled water, and the final solution frozen and lyophilized. The hemolymph of nonparasitized larvae was completely black when left overnight, while hemolymph from parasitized larvae was virtually unchanged. A background spectrum was taken of the clean, dry crystal and the cell was filled with 70% ethanol for sterilizing overnight. Individual females were released into the centre of each cage and moths were allowed to oviposit overnight. If plaintiffs lived in remote villages, they had to make overnight trips to the yamen courts in designated cities. Accommodating relatives overnight is necessary when they travel a long distance, or because of their close involvement in housework or care tasks. Maturities range more widely than those of sterling inter-bank loans, from overnight to one year and occasionally more. She frequently stayed overnight with them, and each summer they took her on a caravan holiday. However, the fact that equality is not going to happen overnight or indeed ever, is no reason for not reducing current inequalities. There are 100 overnights or remands, and sentences all morning. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of overnight These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. 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