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单词 twilight zone
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twilight 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.
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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.
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