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dawnBrE /dɔːn/NAmE /dɔːn/ noun [U, C] the time of day when light first appears 黎明；拂晓；破晓 SYN daybreak, sunrise ◆They start work at dawn. 天一亮他们就开始干活了。◆It's almost dawn. 天快亮了。◆We arrived in Sydney as dawn broke (= as the first light could be seen). 黎明时分我们到达了悉尼。◆I woke up just before dawn. 我正好在拂晓前醒来。◆summer's early dawns 夏日早到的黎明◆He works from dawn till dusk (= from morning till night). 他从早到晚地工作。 ➡ compare dusk [sing.] ~ (of sth) the beginning or first signs of sth 开端；曙光；萌芽◆the dawn of civilization/time/history 文明/时代/历史的开端◆Peace marked a new dawn in the country's history. 和平使这个国家的历史翻开了新的一页。 ●break of ˈday/ˈdawn(literary) the moment in the early hours of the morning when it begins to get light 破晓；黎明●at the crack of ˈdawn(informal) very early in the morning 黎明；破晓；清晨 dawnBrE /dɔːn/NAmE /dɔːn/ verbpresent simple - I / you / we / they dawn BrE /dɔːn/ NAmE /dɔːn/present simple - he / she / it dawns BrE /dɔːnz/ NAmE /dɔːnz/past simple dawned BrE /dɔːnd/ NAmE /dɔːnd/past participle dawned BrE /dɔːnd/ NAmE /dɔːnd/ -ing form dawning BrE /ˈdɔːnɪŋ/ NAmE /ˈdɔːnɪŋ/ [I] (of a day or a period of time 一天或一个时期) to begin 开始◆The following morning dawned bright and warm. 第二天一大早阳光和煦。◆A new technological age had dawned. 新技术时代已经开始。 [I] to become obvious or easy to understand 变得明朗；开始清楚◆Slowly the awful truth dawned. 可怕的事实慢慢地清晰起来。●(the) light ˈdawned (on sb)somebody suddenly understood or began to understand sth 豁然开朗；恍然大悟◆I puzzled over the problem for ages before the light suddenly dawned. 我对这个问题冥思苦想了很久才豁然开朗。 ●ˈdawn on sb [no passive] if sth dawns on you, you begin to realize it for the first time 使开始明白；使渐渐领悟；使开始理解◆it dawns on sb that…Suddenly it dawned on me that they couldn't possibly have met before. 我突然明白他们以前不可能见过面。 |