curfew
curfew 英 [ˈkɜ:fju:] 美 [ˈkɜrfju]
n. 宵禁；宵禁令；晚钟；打晚钟时刻
名词复数:curfews
- Curfew is a rule or law that sets a time that certain people have to be off the streets. A town may set a curfew for teenagers, for example, although many parents impose a stricter curfew for their own kids.
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- n. 宵禁；宵禁令；晚钟；打晚钟时刻
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1. The military authorities lifted the curfew on the city.
军事当局撤销了对该城市的宵禁。
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2. Yet the bars and nightclubs heaved. People dodged the curfew patrols for the chance to forget for one or two hours longer.
然而酒吧和夜总会的生意还是很好，人们躲开宵禁的巡逻队，为的是在这里求得一两个小时的逍遥。
- curfew (n.) early 14c., "evening signal, ringing of a bell at a fixed hour," from Anglo-French coeverfu (late 13c.), from Old French cuevrefeu, literally "cover fire" (Modern French couvre-feu), from cuevre, imperative of covrir "to cover" (see cover (v.)) + feu "fire" (see focus (n.)). The medieval practice of ringing a bell at fixed time in the evening as an order to bank the hearths and prepare for sleep. The original purpose was to prevent conflagrations from untended fires. The modern extended sense of "periodic restriction of movement" had evolved by 1800s.
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