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。
For instance, porcupines ate one of the camera sensors and repeatedly raided food supplies during the dead of night, he said.
例如，在夜深人静的时候，箭猪吃了一个相机传感器，还不断地抢夺食品给养。
President Zelaya says Honduran troops forcibly removed him from his home in the dead of night and sent him to Costa Rica in his pajamas.
洪都拉斯总统塞拉亚说，军方动用武力在深夜将他从住所带走，把穿着睡衣的他送到哥斯达黎加。

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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