It was getting toward evening when we got back.

我们回来时已将近傍晚。

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At last, toward evening, dead tired, they came to the Inn of the Red Lobster.

最后，快到傍晚的时候，他们累得要死，来到了红虾旅馆。

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He had the camels kneel down near the well outside the town; it was toward evening, the time the women go out to draw water.

天将晚，众女子出来打水的时候，他便叫骆驼跪在城外的水井那里。

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He wore her down toward evening.

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