night fear

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The fear of the night, nighttime, or darkness. uncountable
    — […] just as Rainer complained he never had a childhood — what luck! — never to have suffered birthpang, nightfear, cradlecap, cold lake in your lung; never to have practiced scales or sat numbly before the dentist's hum or picked your mother up from the floor she's bled and wept and puked on; […]
  2. A fear or terror that one typically has at night. countable,figuratively
    — It has required much British resolution to overcome the night-fear of going out into the unhallowed ground of matter-of-fact, where the farthest earlier excursions of the governmental agencies had taken them no farther than such financial transactions as are incident to the accomplishment of anything whatever in a commercial nation.

词形变化

night fears plural nightfear alternative night-fear alternative

词源

From night + fear.
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