he whispered. He gave the remaining glass of whiskey to Henry just as the clock began to strike midnight.

VOA: special.2009.07.04

But I would choose to sit down for these particular projects right around midnight so that when I woke up my program was giving me the results I wanted.

我可能会,为了这些特殊的项目一直等到半夜,这样我醒来时,程序就能给我想要的结果。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Well, yes, it's not cheap to take a taxi after midnight or taxi at all in London

是的，午夜之后打车很贵，或者伦敦的出租车就是很贵。

伦敦的夜生活 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. "Hostilities will end officially at one minute after midnight tonight,Tuesday, the eighth of May.

VOA: special.2011.06.16

We might even call this Machiavelli in the garden of good and evil, midnight in the garden of good and evil for Machiavelli.

我们甚至能称此为,马奇亚维利走进善恶花园，午夜的善恶花园,有着马奇亚维利的踪迹。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

By midnight of Election Day, the results seemed to show that Democrat Samuel Tilden was the winner.

VOA: special.2010.03.04

But if you're the type who prefers to be bed by midnight, that's quite okay too; there'll be plenty of time to work on the project.

但是，如果你习惯半夜睡觉，也同样可以,你还有足够的时间完成这个项目。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

In Australia, the city of Sydney begins each new year with a fireworks show at midnight.

VOA: special.2010.07.04

I like to stay up until midnight or even later on my natural clock.

我很喜欢熬夜,一直到午夜或者更晚,这是我的生物钟。

普林斯顿公开课 - 国际座谈会课程节选

Two other traditions for welcoming the New Year are a midnight kiss and an attempt to sing a song that almost no one knows.

VOA: special.2009.12.28

Every day at midnight God destroys the old soul and replaces it with a new soul that has the very same personality as the one before midnight, similar personality,same beliefs,desires,and so forth and so on.

每天午夜上帝都毁掉旧的灵魂,用一个与午夜前相同人格的灵魂代替，相同的人格，相同的信仰和欲望。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

They count down the final seconds to midnight as they watch a brightly lit ball slide down a pole on top of a tall building.

VOA: special.2009.12.28

He couldn't avoid that in this phase of making of his thought of that movie called Chimes at Midnight, that he couldn't go on with the excuse that his make-up kit was lost.

他不能在,为电影《午夜钟声》,练习台词时继续用,化妆箱不见了的托辞。

麻省理工公开课 - 电影哲学课程节选

This offer was carried to Fort Sumter a few minutes before midnight, April eleventh.

VOA: special.2009.08.06

They did it last night at midnight.

这一切都发生在昨天午夜。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

One of his best known recordings is this one, "The Midnight Special."

VOA: special.2010.01.18

By midnight of election day, it was clear that Lincoln had won.

VOA: special.2009.12.10

"In the Midnight Hour" became his first number one song.

VOA: special.2009.08.21

They returned from the Washington farm after midnight.

VOA: special.2009.06.25

The party ended near midnight.

VOA: special.2009.12.17

She sang "Walkin' After Midnight,"

VOA: special.2011.01.16

she had hair like the midnight sky and she smiled up them with shining gray eyes As the old man lifted the little girl in his arms, Mother Moonshower put the rain babies into the silver basket.

VOA: special.2009.02.28

He hears a noise at the window. Here is the beginning of the poem: Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered,weak and weary,Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore -- While I nodded,nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping -- rapping at my chamber door.

VOA: special.2010.10.31

I live with Him -- I see his face -- I go no more away For Visitor -- or Sundown-- Death's single privacy Dreams -- are well -- but Waking's better, If One wake at Morn -- If One wake at Midnight - better -- Dreaming -- of the Dawn -- This is my letter to the World That never wrote to me-- The simple News that Nature told-- With tender Majesty In those years, Dickinson seems to have found her "voice" as a poet.

VOA: special.2010.07.18

Engineers say the closure of the Ignalina plant in the town of Visaginas happened on New Year's Eve shortly before midnight local time.

VOA: standard.2010.01.01

"According to news reports, the Polish prime minister was called at midnight."

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

Australian rock heavyweight Midnight Oil has been reformed for the occasion.

VOA: standard.2009.03.14

are Ella Fitzgerald on "Midnight Sun."

VOA: standard.2010.04.12

Advisor to the president Rajendra Dahal says a move to install a new majority government is required under the Interim Constitution, since the parties refused to meet the president's Saturday midnight deadline to form a coalition by consensus.

VOA: standard.2009.05.10