更ける: 4 Terms and Phrases

• 更ける
• to get late
• to advance
• to wear on

• 夜が更けるまで彼らの話は尽きなかった。
• They didn't run out of conversation until late at night.

• 夜が更けると大和大路を南へ走り、それを見た人はその鬼のような姿を見たショックで倒れて死んでしまった。
• Late that night, she ran south on Yamato-oji Street, and those who saw her fell and died of shock at seeing such an ogre-like figure.

• 夜が更けて、千手たちが帰ろうとすると、重衡はこれを引き留めて盃を進めさせ、朗詠し、前漢楚の故事をひいて燭が暗くなるのは虞美人（項羽の妻）の涙、夜が更けるのは四面楚歌の声さと言った。
• It became late at night and when Senju and others were about to leave, Shigehira stopped them and offered drink while recited and, taking after the historical event of the former Han and Chu, said as follows; the candle dims due to the tears of Gubijin (Yu Meiren, who was the wife of Koseki Xiang Yu) and the night falls due to the voice of Shimensoka (being surrounded by enemies on all sides).