汉英词典
Chinese-English Dictionary
MEANING OF 上半夜
上半夜
first half of the night / time before midnight
前半夜,指天黑至午夜二十四点钟以前的一段时间。
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EXAMPLE SENTENCES

昨夜我很晚才就寝,错过了上半夜的睡眠。

I went to bed late last night and missed my beauty sleep.

从22,000只鸟的身上采集到的数据发现,它们潜水捕食大多深入到水下50 - 100米,那里已经相当暗了,像上半夜一样。

Data collected on nearly 22,000 of the birds' foraging dives showed that most were hunting prey at 50 to 100 meters below the surface, where the water is quite dark-akin to early night.