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单词 dawn
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Her wedding day dawns and she's stranded in the woods.For watching the dawning of the new world, there was probably no better place to be. New dawn of co-operation ahead.How marvellous if that gorgeous day dawns when no one is counting, or fretting, about colour.A new dawn is beginning.AT last, the sense is beginning to dawn across Europe.There is a wider issue at play here and it is beginning to dawn on people.We moved forward again just after dawn.The box contains a bank of small lenses that track the sun from dawn to dusk.This was in the dawning of the age of computers.Humans have been spotting odd things in the sky from the dawn of time.The dawn of a new internet age has begun.The package left the museum before dawn one recent morning.This time the dawn looks far from false.The horror of the situation quickly dawned.The fourth series of the political comedy ends as election day dawns.We both rose as the first greying of dawn reached the windows.And then it gradually begins to dawn on you.Police spent an hour driving him around until he spotted his hotel just before dawn.Man has lived in thrall to the sun since the dawn of civilisation.Many more will soon be looking east to a new dawn.It was about half a mile across and was dumped by a glacier before the dawn of man.The new age might be dawning.Helicopters swooped across the dawn sky.False dawns have become something of the norm here this term but they cannot afford any more if they are to finish fourth.All of a sudden the light dawned upon this woman's mind.THE doctor looked into the dawn sky and told his driver to put his foot down.

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dawn

British English: dawn /dɔːn/ NOUN
Dawn is the time of day when light first appears in the sky, before the sun rises.
She woke at dawn.
  • American English: dawn
  • Arabic: فَجْر
  • Brazilian Portuguese: amanhecer
  • Chinese: 黎明
  • Croatian: zora
  • Czech: úsvit
  • Danish: daggry
  • Dutch: dageraad
  • European Spanish: amanecer
  • Finnish: aamunkoitto
  • French: aube
  • German: Dämmerung
  • Greek: αυγή
  • Italian: alba
  • Japanese: 夜明け
  • Korean: 새벽
  • Norwegian: daggry
  • Polish: świt
  • European Portuguese: amanhecer
  • Romanian: zori
  • Russian: рассвет
  • Latin American Spanish: amanecer
  • Swedish: gryning
  • Thai: รุ่งอรุณ
  • Turkish: şafak
  • Ukrainian: світанок
  • Vietnamese: bình minh

All related terms of 'dawn'

Chinese translation of 'dawn'

dawn

(dɔːn)

n

  1. (c/u) [of day] 黎明 (límíng) (个(個), )
  2. the dawn of sth 某事的开(開)端(耑) (mǒushì de kāiduān)

vi

  1. [day] 开(開)始 (kāishǐ)
  2. (liter) [period, age] 开(開)始 (kāishǐ)
    from dawn to dusk 从(從)早到晚 (cóng zǎo dào wǎn)
(noun) 
Definition
daybreak
She woke at dawn.
Synonyms
daybreak
He got up every morning before daybreak.
morning
I started to lose hope of ever seeing the morning.
sunrise
The rain began towards sunrise.
dawning
daylight
He returned shortly after daylight.
aurora (poetic)
crack of dawn
sunup
cockcrow
dayspring (poetic)
(noun) 
Definition
the beginning of something
(literary) 
the dawn of the radio age
Synonyms
beginning
Think of this as a new beginning.
start
She demanded to know why she had not been told from the start.
birth
the birth of popular democracy
rise
origin
theories about the origin of life
dawning
unfolding
emergence
the emergence of new democracies in Central Europe
outset
Decide at the outset what kind of learning programme will suit you best.
onset
This drug slows down the onset of the disease.
advent
genesis
The project had its genesis two years earlier.
inception
Since its inception, the company has produced 53 different designs.
(verb) 
Definition
to begin to develop or appear
A new era seemed about to dawn.
Synonyms
begin
It began as a local festival.
start
The fire is thought to have started in an upstairs room.
open
They are now ready to open negotiations.
rise
develop
I developed a taste for the finer things in life.
emerge
He was waiting outside as she emerged from the building.
unfold
The outcome depends on conditions as well as how events unfold.
originate
The dish originated in North Africa.
(verb) 
Definition
to begin to grow light after the night
The next day dawned.
Synonyms
grow light
break
She was saved by bushes which broke her fall.
brighten
Her tearful eyes brightened with interest.
lighten
Here's a little something to lighten your spirits.

phrasal verb

See dawn on or upon someone

related words

related adjective auroral
related phobia eosophobia

Quotations

rosy-fingered dawn [Homer – Iliad]
For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation? [Thornton Wilder – The Bridge of San Luis Rey]

Additional synonyms

in the sense of birth
Definition
the beginning of something
the birth of popular democracy
Synonyms
beginning,
start,
rise,
source,
origin,
emergence,
outset,
genesis,
initiation,
inauguration,
inception,
commencement,
fountainhead
in the sense of break
Definition
to weaken the impact or force of
She was saved by bushes which broke her fall.
Synonyms
cushion,
reduce,
ease,
moderate,
diminish,
temper,
soften,
lessen,
alleviate,
lighten
in the sense of brighten
Definition
to make or become bright or brighter
Her tearful eyes brightened with interest.
Synonyms
light up,
shine,
glow,
gleam,
clear up,
lighten,
enliven

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