这两个词共同的意思是“晚上”“夜里”。它们的区别是:
1.evening指从日落至就寝前的一段时间; eve通常指某节日或重大事件的“前夜”或“前夕”。试比较:
We're giving a party on Christmas evening.
我们将在圣诞节晚上举行晚会。
We're giving a party on Christmas Eve.
我们将在圣诞节前夜举行晚会。
2.eve在文学作品或诗词中也可指“傍晚”; evening还可引申指“晚会”。
词源词根法
来自even,黄昏,字母n误脱落,词源同evensong,evening.
重要短语
christmas eve圣诞节前夕(12月24日)
on the eve前夜
on the eve of在…的前夜
new year's eve除夕
Yeah. Traditionally girls put leaves of laurel under their pillow on the Eve of Valentine's Day?
是的. 传统上女孩们在情人节前夜把月桂树叶放在自己的枕头下.
来源:休闲英语会话At some time or other Eve had obviously put the fear of God into her.
显然伊芙时不时有意吓唬她一下。
来源:《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》At Christmas the visitors began their circuit of dropping in on the eve of the feast day.
圣诞节时,客人们在节日前夜开始逐家拜节。
来源:《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》抗议活动发生在联合国组织的于埃塞俄比亚首都亚的斯亚贝巴进行的为期两天的会谈即将开始前。
来源:《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》她从圣诞夜开始有整整5天的自由时间,于是她准备去查尔斯跟家人呆在一起。
来源:《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》On the eve of the Revolution, the colonies produced thirty thousand tons of crude iron a year.
独立战争前夕,北美十三州每年生产3万吨生铁。
来源:《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》St. Patrick's Cathedral is famed for its midnight mass on Christmas eve.
圣巴特里克大教堂以其圣诞前夜的午夜弥撒著称.
来源:《简明英汉词典》In China the custom prevails in eating dumplings on New Year's Eve.
在中国,除夕晚上吃饺子的风俗很盛行.
来源:《现代汉英综合大词典》Now every daughter of Eve wants to " control her surrounding, her relationship, her God. "
现在,每一个夏娃的女儿,都在尝试 “ 控制她的环境, 她的关系, 她的神 ”
来源:网络文摘精选On New Year's Eve I usually give a party, which is always chaotic.
我通常在除夕举行派对,总是很闹。
来源:《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》On New Year's Eve he confided that he had suffered rather troubling chest pains.
新年前夜,他诉说他胸口疼得相当厉害。
来源:《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》
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