The night she won Olympic gold in Beijing, the routine murders in Waterhouse and the drug wars in the neighbouring streets sTOPped.
本句是2016年高考考试英语江苏卷阅读理解D中的一句话，请问：句首的 the night 为何不是 on the night 呢？这个的 on 可以省略吗？谢谢！
▲赞同陈老师的剖析：这里的 the night 起连词用途，引导时间状语从句，意思是“……的那个晚上”，与 the minute, the moment, the instant 等的使用方法相似。句意为：
The night she won Olympic gold in Beijing, the routine murders in Waterhouse and the drug wars in the neighbouring streets sTOPped. 在她在北京取得奥运金牌的那个晚上，水屋不足为奇的凶杀与附近街道上打击毒品的斗争忽然都停止了。
另外，the day, the week, the month, the year, the spring, the summer, the autumn, the winter 等也有类似使用方法：
It was very wet and windy the day I drove over the hill to Del Norte. 我开车越过小山去德尔诺特的那天下大雨又刮大风。
Her parents started putting away money for her education the year she was born. 她的爸爸妈妈在她生的那一年就开始为她的教育存钱。
The week he died, we all sat around and moped. 他过世的那个星期，大家都闷闷不乐地闲坐着。
▲但与陈老师怎么看不一样的是：我觉得这里加上介词 on 也是可以的——如此一来，on the night 就成了时间状语，其后的 she won Olympic gold in Beijing 为定语从句，修饰 the night。类似的使用方法如：
Three months later lan was dead. Luckily she had not been with him on the night he lost control of his car and careered into the woods. It was after that tragedy that Sharon decided to emigrate. 三个月后依安就过世了。所幸的是在他汽车失去控制冲进树林的那天晚上，她没同他在一块。正是在这次悲剧之后谢尔润才决定移居外国的。
