nocturnal

英 [nɒk'tɜːnl] 美 [nɑːk'tɜːrnl]

• adj. 在夜间的；（指生物）夜间活动的

英英释义

Adjective:

1. belonging to or active during the night;

   "nocturnal animals are active at night"
   "nocturnal plants have flowers that open at night and close by day"
   

2. of or relating to or occurring in the night;

   "nocturnal darkness"
   

例句

用作形容词 (adj.)

1. Stars are a nocturnal sight.
   星星是夜间的景观。
2. Ali was his principal attendant during this nocturnal survey.
   阿里陪着他作这次夜间视察。
3. A nocturnal animal hunts its food at night.
   夜间活动的动物在夜间猎食。
4. The dormouse is a shy, nocturnal creature.
   榛睡鼠是一种在夜间活动的胆小动物。

经典引文

• Attacks are nocturnal and wake the patient from deep sleep.

  出自： O. Sacks

• A nocturnal blizzard had come on.

  出自： N. Lowndes

词汇搭配

• nocturnal fish 夜行性鱼类
• nocturnal pain 夜间痛
• nocturnal cough 夜嗽
• nocturnal insect 夜蛾
• nocturnal migration 夜间移栖
• nocturnal eye 夜眼(动)
• nocturnal enuresis 夜遗尿
• nocturnal pollution [医] 夜遗[精]...
• nocturnal flower 夕花
• nocturnal urine output 夜尿量
• nocturnal behavior 夜晚行为
• nocturnal emission 夜间遗精,梦遗...
• nocturnal cooling 夜间冷却
• nocturnal radiation 夜间辐射,红外辐射...
• nocturnal periodicity 夜现周期性
• nocturnal habit 夜行性
• nocturnal inversion 夜间逆温

近反义词

【近义词】

• nightly 每夜的
• black 黑的
• midnight 午夜
• nighttime 夜间
• night 夜晚

【反义词】

• diurnal 每日的