Eve

(noun.) (Old Testament) Adam's wife in Judeo-Christian mythology: the first woman and mother of the human race; God created Eve from Adam's rib and placed Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.

(noun.) the day before; 'he always arrives on the eve of her departure'.

(noun.) the period immediately before something; 'on the eve of the French Revolution'.

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• To my inexperience we at first appeared on the eve of a civil war; each party was violent, acrimonious, and unyielding. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• When the massacre of St. Bartholomew’s Eve deluged France with the blood of Protestants Catherine saw that Palissy was spared from the general destruction. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• On Christmas eve of 1801, Trevithick made the initial trip with the first successful steam road locomotive through the streets of Camborne in Cornwall, carrying passengers. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• I was a happy and successful man, Mr. Holmes, and on the eve of being married, when a sudden and dreadful misfortune wrecked all my prospects in life. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• The fallen nature in Rachel--the mother Eve, so to speak--began to chafe at this. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• And when friends are on the eve of separation, they like to spend the little time that remains to them close to each other. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Poland was indeed born as a nation on the eve of her dissolution. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• It was Christmas Eve, and I had to stir the pudding for next day, with a copper-stick, from seven to eight by the Dutch clock. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Adam kept Eve in the indestructible paradise, when he kept her single with himself, like a star in its orbit. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Caroline, I will not; I will stay out here with my mother Eve, in these days called Nature. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• I hear gossip now and then about your being on the eve of marriage with this miss and that; but I suppose it is none of it true? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• It was a Christmas Eve, too; and I remember that on that very night he told us the story about the goblins that carried away old Gabriel Grub. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• On Midsummer-eve, Adele, weary with gathering wild strawberries in Hay Lane half the day, had gone to bed with the sun. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• For Adam was first formed, then Eve. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• To study the human heart thus, is to banquet secretly and sacrilegiously on Eve's apples. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.

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