in the dead of night

基本解释

IN THE dead of night, an unusual convoy made its way through Lyon earlier this month.
在这个月初，一支不寻常的护卫队伍在夜深人静的时候，取道里昂。
Many a puzzled neighbour saw their privet hedges trimmed in the dead of night so I could get fodder for my caterpillars.
很多不知就里的邻居会发现他们的女贞树篱在夜深人静时被人剪了，那是因为我要给我的毛虫找吃的。
Or that time in the deep Ozarks when someone spent several hours intermittently knocking on my door in the dead of night.
还有一次，远在小城欧萨克，夜晚静悄悄的，有人过一段时间就来敲打我的房门，一连持续了几个小时。

And now at the dead hour of the night, in the horrible silence of that old house, so strange a noise as this excited me to uncontrollable terror.

In the dead of night, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) administratively reclassified airport security screeners as Transportation Security Officers.
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The movement targeted logging companies, S.U.V. dealerships, and slaughterhouses, burning empty workplaces down in the dead of night (no one was ever hurt).
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