问题：
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The young people were still abroad at the dead of night.
what does the sentence mean?
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Aena
151天前
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专家的回答：
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It's an odd sentence that doesn't make much sense, mainly because of the word "abroad", which, these days, most commonly means "outside one's own country"; it does have the additional sense of "outdoors", which it could mean here, but that usage is almost never heard these days. Also, usually, it's "in the dead of night", that's because "at" refers to a specific point in time or space, but, "dead of night" means anytime in the middle or deepest part of the night. So, it's a ridiculous sentence.
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Roger
150天前
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回答：
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年轻人始终在国外在这个死气沉沉的夜晚
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匿名
151天前
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As a rule, ' in the dead of night ' ,an idiom.Never have I found 'at 'in the phrase is used .
I cannot get the real meaning of sentence .
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luozulin01
144天前
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