| 词汇 | twilight |
| 释义 | twilight noun uk /ˈtwaɪ.laɪt/ us /ˈtwaɪ.laɪt/ twilightnoun (EVENING)[ U ] the period just before it becomes completely dark in the evening: 黄昏时分，薄暮时分 the twilightI could make out a dark figure in the twilight.暮色中我能辨认出一个黑影。 Stephen Hansen/EyeEm/GettyImages Days & times of day afternoon afternoons all day am arvo happy hour high noon hour in broad daylightidiom in the dead of night/winteridiom night noon noontime o'clock office hours opening time the witching hour wine o'clock workday working day You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Darkness & becoming dark twilightnoun (FINAL PART)the twilight of somethingliterary the final part of a period: 晚期 in the twilight of somethingI knew him when he was in the twilight of his career.我在他职业生涯的晚期才认识他。 Idiomtwilight years twilight adjective literaryuk /ˈtwaɪ.laɪt/ us /ˈtwaɪ.laɪt/ used to describe a way of life that involves illegal or immoral activities, and is on the edge of normal society: （生活）处于社会边缘的，不安稳的 twilight existenceThe remaining inhabitants of this once-prosperous town have got used to a twilight existence.这个曾经繁华的商业重镇里遗留下的居民已经习惯了动荡不安的生活。 twilight worldLeaving a secure job for the twilight world of pop music may have been a mistake.抛弃安稳的工作进入充满未知的流行音乐界也许是个错误。 Strange, suspicious and unnatural aberrant aberrantly abnormal abnormally add freakishly freakishness funnily funnily enoughidiom ghostliness perverse perversely perversity perverted pervy unorthodox wack wackadoodle wackily wackiness Idiomtwilight zone twilight | American Dictionarytwilight noun[ U ] us/ˈtwɑɪˌlɑɪt/ the low level of light when it is late in the day, just before the darkness of night, or this period of the day fig. Twilight is also any late period, when the end of something is near: The book presents a compelling portrait of the singer in the twilight of her career. Examples of twilighttwilight We recognise our responsibility to those living on the edges and margins, the twilights and shadows of our society. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The shadows are full of worshippers and beautiful things that live in their misty twilights. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Their discourse was one of ' twilight ' and ' decline ' as far as the autocracy was concerned, not of its liberalization. The light refers to the long summer twilights and the aurora australis (southern lights). From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Twilight's magic is not strong enough to stop it, though they can get some of the phenomena somewhat under control. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Sandhya literally means transition moments of the day namely the two twilights: dawn and dusk and the solar noon. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The difference in daylength between this definition and civil twilight is about 1 h at 41x latitude. The short night was not long passing, it being merely a twilight of an hour or so. Their main concern was the theory of trepidation, the obliquity of the ecliptic, - as well as the determination of the beginning of dawn and twilight. Of the two geometries most likely to be the generator of the curves p1 -p4, one has to be adopted; there is no twilight zone of either/or. First, the understanding of accounting in context breaks with the narrowly technical and highly ethnocentric understandings of accounting that inhabit the twilight world between theory and practice. The appearance of colors in twilight. He says that there are 650,000 slums and a total of 2,750,000 slums and twilight houses, so his definition allows a certain amount of looseness. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Much that happens now in the sort of dim industrial twilight might well be brought into the clear light of day. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They will then say to themselves that this or that area is slum or twilight area and needing renewing. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of twilight These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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