night watch

基本解釋

To move from the cabin of our raft for a night-time watch is initially displeasing.
開始的時候我們并不認為夜間從船艙里走出來值夜是一件有趣的事情。
Mr Rigsby was a night-watch man, and his wife eked out his wages by breeding budgerigars.
里斯比先生是個夜間守門人，他的太太以飼養(yǎng)小鸚鵡為副業(yè)補助家庭的收入。
"There cannot be two queens," said the king to himself, "so to-night I will watch in the nursery.
“這里不會有兩個王后，”國王對自己說，“所以今天晚上我一定要去嬰兒房看看。”

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