连夜

• Pinyin: lián yè
• Hanzi breakdown: 连 = 辶 + 车 (continuous/without break); 夜 = 亦 + 夕 (night — darkness falling)

Meaning

That very night; overnight; without waiting for daylight. Describes acting urgently and immediately, often through the night.

Conveys urgency and immediacy. Common collocations: 连夜赶制 (rush to complete overnight), 连夜出发 (set off that very night), 连夜抢修 (carry out emergency repairs overnight). Frequently used in news reports about emergency responses or time-sensitive actions.

Examples

1. 收到紧急命令后，救援队连夜驱车奔赴受灾地区展开搜救行动。 After receiving an urgent order, the rescue team drove through the night to the disaster area to begin search-and-rescue operations.
2. 设计团队连夜修改方案，力求在次日汇报会前呈现出最佳效果。 The design team revised the plan overnight, aiming to present the best possible version before the next day’s briefing.
3. 工人们连夜抢修受损堤坝，争取在洪峰到来前完成全部加固工程。 Workers carried out emergency repairs on the damaged levee through the night, striving to finish all reinforcement work before the flood peak arrived.

Usage Guide

Context: news, emergency response, work, narrative

Tone: urgent

Do Say

• 灾情紧急，政府连夜召开会议，研究部署下一阶段的救援和重建工作。(The disaster was urgent — the government convened a meeting overnight to study and deploy the next phase of rescue and reconstruction work.)
• 他们连夜起草了一份声明，要求媒体于次日早间发布，以平息舆论风波。(They drafted a statement overnight, requesting that the media release it the following morning to quell the public controversy.)

Don't Say

• 将'连夜'与'彻夜'混用 — 连夜强调'当晚立即行动'的紧迫性，彻夜则侧重于'整夜不间断'的持续时长

Origin & History

连 (continuously/without break) + 夜 (night) — working straight through the night without stopping

Cultural Context

Generation: All ages

Social background: Universal