| 单词 | twilight zone |
| 释义 | > as lemmastwilight zone twilight zone n. (a) spec. an urban area in which housing is becoming decrepit; (b) gen. an indistinct boundary area combining some of the characteristics of the two areas between which it falls (cf. sense 4b); (c) occasionally, a dimly illuminated region. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition or fact of being interjacent > [noun] > that which is interjacent meana1400 moyen1483 umpire1605 intermedium1611 intermediate1650 middle1665 between-lier1674 borderland1821 border-ground1871 border-world1878 grey zone1900 twilight zone1909 grey area1935 the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > darkness or gloom > [noun] > place > region twilight world1887 twilight zone1909 shadowland1923 dark side1975 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > part of town or city > [noun] > decrepit or unsightly cardboard city1876 twilight zone1909 blight1938 grey area1959 twilight area1960 1909 Arena Mar. 273/2 Such organization will leave no ‘twilight zone’, no ‘no man's land’, for railway corporation dodgers. 1918 Policeman's Monthly June 30/1 There still remain twilight zones in most centers of population. 1920 J. G. Frederick Great Game of Business iii. 23 Be aware that the test of real ‘honesty’ comes in the ‘twilight zone’ between what is quite clearly honest and dishonest. 1938 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 42 492 The twilight zone extends to about 20° either side of the equi~signal zone centre. 1960 Daily Tel. 20 June 17/6 There are many towns with ‘twilight zones’ of shabby and out~dated houses. 1969 Times 29 Jan. 10/7 It lives between 300 and 500 metres below the surface of the ocean, in the region to which light penetrates with such difficulty that it may be considered as a kind of twilight zone. 1981 Washington Post 26 Apr. a1/1 Several key officials charged with formulating foreign policy remain in a bureaucratic twilight zone almost 100 days after Reagan's inauguration. < as lemmas |
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