| 单词 | dawn |
| 释义 | dawn (once / 126 pages) nv The noun dawn refers to the first light of day, or the first time period, like the dawn of a new era, which occurs when a new president takes office. Not just the beginning of a day, the noun dawn can refer to any beginning, like the dawn of the Internet era. As a verb, dawn can mean "become light" or "become clear," like when it dawns on you that you left an important paper at home today. In that case, you can suddenly see what you did wrong, like at the dawn of a new day, when it is no longer dark and you can see, literally. WORD FAMILYdawn: dawned, dawning, dawns+/dawning: dawnings USAGE EXAMPLESOn New Year’s Eve, anything with feathers and a pulse was counted by about 200 birders from dawn until almost dusk. Seattle Times(Jan 02, 2017) Decius, the faceless blogger, is hoping instead that Trump’s Presidency will mark the dawn of a new kind of conservative movement. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) At dawn now, it will be high in the south. Washington Post(Dec 31, 2016) 1n the first light of day we got up before dawn Syn|Ant|Hyper aurora, break of day, break of the day, cockcrow, dawning, daybreak, dayspring, first light, morning, sunrise, sunup sundown, sunset the time in the evening at which the sun begins to fall below the horizon hour, time of day clock time 2n the earliest period the dawn of civilization Syn|Hyper morning start the beginning of anything 3n an opening time period it was the dawn of the Roman Empire Hyper period, period of time, time period an amount of time 4v become light It started to dawn, and we had to get up Hyper change undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature 5v appear or develop The age of computers had dawned Hyper begin, start have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense 6v become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions It dawned on him that she had betrayed him Syn click, come home, fall into place, get across, get through, penetrate, sink in |
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