📖 Meaning
Through the entire night from dusk until dawn, without stopping. It describes continuous activity that lasts the whole night long. An equivalent of the idiom 连明连夜.
📜 Origin Story
The phrase comes from the novel Long Night (《长夜》) by Yao Xueyin, a prominent 20th-century Chinese writer. In the novel, he describes the wartime chaos after leaving Xinyang, when passenger trains on the southern Ping-Han railway line had ceased running. Instead, every available vehicle was transporting troops continuously through the night without pause. The phrase vividly conveys the urgency and relentless pace of wartime logistics, where work carries on from dark until dawn.
💡 Example Usage
为了赶在截稿日期前交稿，他连明彻夜地写作。
To meet the submission deadline, he wrote continuously through the entire night.
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🔤 Quick Facts
- Chinese: 连明彻夜
- Pinyin: lián míng chè yè
- Literal Translation: continuous, bright, through, night
- Category: Perseverance
- Characters: 4