laten

释义

1. 變晚；變遲

   intransitive

   The afternoon was latening, but there was, I think, a quietly commemorative glow from the west.

   下午的天色漸晚，但我認為，西方的天空仍閃耀著一種平靜而具有紀念意義的光芒。

   1928，Siegfried Sassoon，The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston: Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man，London：Faber and Faber，142 (Faber Paper 1972 edition)頁：

   Not even when the hour latened, when the courts became filled with boys returning from their holidays, when the moment for saying "Good-bye" was only a few minutes distant, not even then did his high spirits leave him.

   即使時間已晚，即使庭院裡擠滿了度假歸來的男孩，即使距離說「再見」只剩幾分鐘，他高昂的興致也絲毫沒有減退。

   1930，Alec Waugh，Three Score and Ten，第3頁：

   Then he returned to Margaret's side and sat with her for the rest of the evening, insisting that she rest. As the hour latened he kissed her on the cheek and got up to leave.

   然後他回到瑪格麗特身邊，陪她度過了整個晚上的剩餘時光，並堅持讓她休息。隨著夜色漸深，他親吻了她的臉頰，起身離開。

   2011，Catherine Winchester，Northern Light：