Four thousand people may turn up to participate in the contest (as onlookers) and a white night is spent by restaurateurs to prepare for the multitude.
2A night when it is never properly dark, as in high latitudes in summer.
（夏季高纬度地区等所见的）白夜
Example sentencesExamples
In summer the cities provide white nights with daylight lasting almost to midnight and dawn following dusk with great speed.
The best time to visit this city is June - a period of the so-called white nights when the sun never sets down.
The prince searches for her through the white night of St. Petersburg, his mind full of confusion, premonitions and anxiety.
Before her career as a spy really blazed across Russia's white nights and she became the KGB's favorite British agent, it was almost stillborn.
From white nights to white-hot days, from Baroque palaces on the Neva to Art Deco by the beach, St. Petersburg native Mikhail Ilyin has leapt through a six-year career to land as a principal dancer at Miami City Ballet.
Definition of white night in US English:
white night
noun
1A sleepless night.
不眠之夜
Example sentencesExamples
Four thousand people may turn up to participate in the contest (as onlookers) and a white night is spent by restaurateurs to prepare for the multitude.
2A night when it is never properly dark, as in high latitudes in summer.
（夏季高纬度地区等所见的）白夜
Example sentencesExamples
From white nights to white-hot days, from Baroque palaces on the Neva to Art Deco by the beach, St. Petersburg native Mikhail Ilyin has leapt through a six-year career to land as a principal dancer at Miami City Ballet.
The prince searches for her through the white night of St. Petersburg, his mind full of confusion, premonitions and anxiety.
In summer the cities provide white nights with daylight lasting almost to midnight and dawn following dusk with great speed.
The best time to visit this city is June - a period of the so-called white nights when the sun never sets down.
Before her career as a spy really blazed across Russia's white nights and she became the KGB's favorite British agent, it was almost stillborn.