twilight

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n. 暮光, 曙光, 黎明, 黄昏, 微光, 朦胧状态 a. 微明的

发音

US /ˈtwaɪˌlaɪt/

词形变化

twilights 复数 twilights twilighted twilighting twilights 三单 twilit twilighting 现在分词 twilit 过去式 twilit 过去分词 twilighted 过去式 twilighted 过去分词

教材释义与例句

名词

黄昏；薄暮；衰退期；朦胧状态

形容词

黎明，黄昏；薄暮；衰退期；朦胧状态

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The soft light in the sky seen before the rising and (especially) after the setting of the sun, occasioned by the illumination of the earth’s atmosphere by the direct rays of the sun and their reflection on the earth.

    可数 不可数

    Near-synonym: half-light

    I could just make out her face in the twilight.

  2. 2.

    The time when said light is visible; the period between daylight and darkness.

    黄昏

    薄暮

    可数 不可数

    It was twilight by the time I got back home.

  3. 3.

    Any faint light through which something is seen.

    可数 不可数
  4. 4.

    The time when the sun is less than 18° below the horizon.

    可数 不可数 天文
  5. 5.

    An in-between or fading condition through which something is perceived.

    可数 比喻 不可数 引申义

    The twilight of one's life

    , Book IV, Chapter XIV The twilight […] of probability.

v.
  1. 1.

    To illuminate faintly.

    诗歌 及物
adj.
  1. 1.

    Pertaining to or resembling twilight; faintly illuminated; obscure.

  2. 2.

    Synonym of mesopelagic (“Describing the pelagic zone of the ocean between the photic epipelagic and the aphotic bathypelagic zones, characterized by very minimal light.”)

    twilight zone

词汇关系

名词

同义词 8

fall nightfall dusk crepuscle crepuscule evenfall gloam gloaming

上位词 6

light hour decline declination time of day visible light

下位词 1

night

整体词 4

even evening eve eventide
形容词

同义词 2

dusky twilit

近义相关 1

dark

相关短语

twilight zone 半阴影区 twilight zones twilight years twilight industry twilight sleep [医] 朦胧麻醉, 半麻醉 twilight zoning twilight zoned twilight industries Twilight of the Gods [网络] 众神的黄昏；诸神黄昏；诸神的黄昏 twilight shift twilight shifts twilight anesthesia [医] 朦胧麻醉, 朦胧睡眠, 半麻醉 twilight language twilight languages twilight birth

词源

PIE word *dwóh₁ From Middle English twilight, twyelyghte, equivalent to twi- (“double, half-”) + light, literally ‘second light, half-light’. Cognate to Scots twa licht, twylicht, twielicht (“twilight”), Low German twilecht, twelecht (“twilight”), Dutch tweelicht (“twilight, dusk”), German Zwielicht (“twilight, dusk”). Compare Old English twēone lēoht (“twilight”).

来源：wiktionary