| 单词 | daylight |
| 释义 | daylight (once / 260 pages) n The period of each day when the sun is shining is daylight. If you work as a lifeguard at the town pool, your job takes place during daylight. You can use daylight and daytime interchangeably, although daylight also means "daytime light" or "the light of the sun." If you lose electricity in your house for a few days, you might have to stick to reading when there's daylight. Many public parks are only open during daylight hours. If someone scares the living daylights out of you, they terrify you — this colloquial phrase comes from an old sense of the eyes being referred to as daylights. WORD FAMILYdaylight: daylights USAGE EXAMPLESThey clogged running lanes and ensured that Kelley struggled to find daylight. Washington Post(Jan 01, 2017) They streamed into the daylight in their thousands, the earth would appear to be in motion, and I’d be seized by vertigo. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) Testing will also be limited to daylight hours and good weather. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) 1n the time after sunrise and before sunset while it is light outside Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper day, daytime dark, night, nighttime the time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside afternoon the part of the day between noon and evening midafternoonthe middle part of the afternoon eve, even, evening, eventidethe latter part of the day (the period of decreasing daylight from late afternoon until nightfall) guest nightan evening when members of a club or college can bring their friends as guests period, period of time, time period an amount of time 2n light during the daytime Hyper light, visible light, visible radiation (physics) electromagnetic radiation that can produce a visual sensation |
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