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词汇 eve
释义 eve
noun
uk /iːv/ us /iːv/
[ S ]
the day or period before an important event:
on the eve ofMrs Clayton was speaking to Arab journalists in Paris on the eve of her visit to Egypt.克莱顿夫人在出访埃及前夕在巴黎与阿拉伯记者进行了交谈。
Christmas EveWhere did you spend Christmas Eve?
New Year's EveSheena always throws a party on New Year's Eve.
[ S or U ]old use
the evening傍晚
The candidate spent election eve on a furious, four-state dash across America.
They staged a huge pop concert with fireworks on millennium eve.
The eve of our 30th wedding anniversary, he chose to announce he was leaving.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Days & times of day
afternoon
afternoons
all day
am
arvo
high noon
hour
in broad daylightidiom
in the dead of night/winteridiom
last orders
night
noontime
o'clock
office hours
opening time
overnight
the witching hour
twilit
workday
working day
Eve
noun[ S ]
uk /iːv/ us /iːv/
the first woman, according to the biblical story of how the world was made夏娃(《圣经》中描述的世界上第一个女性)
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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annunciation
apocalypse
apostolic
Eden
epistle
epistolary
evangelist
Madonna
manna
psalm
resurrection
the ark
the disciplesphrase
the last judgment
the Last Supper
the Magi
the Second Coming
the Ten Commandments
the Torah

eve | American Dictionary


eve
noun[ U ]
us/iv/
the evening or day before a holiday, or the period immediately before an important event:
New Year’s Eve
the eve of the election

Examples of eve


eve
Women were at the forefront of worsening material conditions on the eve of the war, including drought, labor scarcity, crop infestations and famine.
On the eve of the 1930s contemporaries would have been in no doubt as to the answer.
Eve produced both copulas and auxiliaries quite infrequently (in 18 % and 6 % of obligatory contexts respectively).
On the eve of colonialism these societies, as well as several across the border, shared certain features.
Analysis of the higher ranks of the regular army on the eve of war in 1861 partially confirms the bipartisan background of senior officers.
The electoral outcomes show this tendency consistently since the eve of independence.
Some sections were discarded only on the eve of the premiere.
He may have simply chosen to avoid a fuss on the eve of his charge's coronation.
But on the eve of the operation, someone older and wiser advised us to get a second opinion from a general practitioner.
We have taken him on the eve of publication, revising his last proof the moment before coming out.
As these extracts make clear, the respondents worried that on the eve of retirement they would not manage to continue their roles.
At the eve of federal elections the issue of re-use became subject to intense party competition.
All three draw attention to the fact that on the eve of the rebellion their county was relatively prosperous : these were far from being the poorest regions of the country.
It was not made clear by the interviewer that the learner (interviewee) was supposed to be recalling what she was thinking at the time of the eve nt itself.
For example, every eve is a string of length 9 whose prefixes of length 1, 3 and 9 equal the corresponding suffixes; hence, corr(every eve) = 100000101.
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