資料來源 : pyDict
前夜,前夕
資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Eve \Eve\, n. [See {Even}, n.]
1. Evening. [Poetic]
Winter oft, at eve resumes the breeze. --Thomson.
2. The evening before a holiday, -- from the Jewish mode of
reckoning the day as beginning at sunset. not at midnight;
as, Christians eve is the evening before Christmas; also,
the period immediately preceding some important event.
``On the eve of death.'' --Keble.
{Eve churr} (Zo["o]l), the European goatsucker or nightjar;
-- called also {night churr}, and {churr owl}.
資料來源 : WordNet®
Eve
n 1: (Old Testament) Adam's wife in Judeo-Christian mythology:
the first woman and mother of the human race; God
created Eve from Adam's rib and placed Adam and Eve in
the Garden of Eden
2: the day before; "he always arrives on the eve of her
departure"
3: the period immediately before something; "on the eve of the
French Revolution"
4: the latter part of the day (the period of decreasing
daylight from late afternoon until nightfall); "he enjoyed
the evening light across the lake" [syn: {evening}, {eventide}]
資料來源 : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing
EVE
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