evening

夕方、晩

午後の遅い時間から真夜中までの時間帯。

やさしい英語で： The part of the day between late afternoon and midnight.

• See you this evening.
• We usually eat together in the evening.
• Did you enjoy your evening at home?

反対語： morning

よく使う表現： in the evening, this evening, early evening, tomorrow evening

夕べ、夜会

夕方や夜に開かれる、パーティーなどの交流の催し。

やさしい英語で： A party or other social event held during the later part of the day.

• We attended a musical evening.
• The club holds social evenings every month.
• She invited us to an evening of poetry and music.

使い方： evening of something (They organized an evening of music and dancing.)

類義語： gathering, party

よく使う表現： musical evening, charity evening, social evening

晩年、末期

人の生涯や、歴史上の長い時代の最後の時期。

やさしい英語で： The final part of someone’s life or of a long period in history.

• She travelled in the evening of her life.
• The novel is set in the evening of a great empire.
• In life’s evening, he returned to his childhood village.

使い方： the evening of something (He found peace in the evening of his life.)

類義語： closing years, final period

反対語： beginning

よく使う表現： evening of life, evening of empire, life’s evening