| 单词 | half-light | 
| 释义 | half-lightn.  A light of half the full intensity; a dim, imperfect light. Also fig. at, by half lights: indistinctly, vaguely, dimly. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > intensity of light > 			[noun]		 > half-light half-light1625 twilight1667 underlight1876 1625    Bacon Ess. 		(new ed.)	 26  				What things are..to be shewed at Halfe lights. 1647    J. Trapp Comm. Evangelists & Acts (John i. 5)  				The former [i.e. light of nature] is but a dim half-light. a1711    T. Ken Hymnotheo in  Wks. 		(1721)	 III. 199  				What by half-Lights to Saints inspir'd was shewn, To you is with all circumstances known. 1875    W. D. Whitney Life & Growth of Lang. xii. 229  				Lines which in a half-light appear definite and fixed. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2015). <  | 
	
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