1. 在夜深人静时：at day || 天亮时, 黎明时 | at dead of night || 在夜深人静时 | at death's door || 生命垂危
1. In his presence they become instantly docile, even at the dead of night.
2. A woman whom doctors had pronounced dead following a fainting spell, suddenly showed signs of life after spending a night at the morgue.
3. It arrives at night to the home of a man surnamed Zhang, defecates and brings in dead mice.