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单词 dawn on
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dawn on


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dawn

noun1. The first appearance of daylight in the morning:aurora, cockcrow, dawning, daybreak, morn, morning, sunrise, sunup.2. The initial stage of a developmental process:beginning, birth, commencement, genesis, inception, nascence, nascency, onset, opening, origin, outset, spring, start.verbTo begin to appear or develop:appear, arise, commence, emerge, originate.phrasal verb
dawn on or upon
To come as a realization:register, sink in, soak in.
Translations
明白真相

dawn

(doːn) verb (especially of daylight) to begin to appear. A new day has dawned. See also dawn on below. 黎明 黎明 noun1. the very beginning of a day; very early morning. We must get up at dawn. 黎明 黎明2. the very beginning of something. the dawn of civilization. 開端 开端ˈdawning noun the act of beginning. the dawning of a new day / a new age. 開端 开端dawn on to become suddenly clear to (a person). It suddenly dawned on me what he had meant. 明白真相 明白真相

dawn on


dawn (up)on (one)

To occur to one. Once I pulled up to the bank, it dawned on me that I had forgotten my wallet. Did it just dawn on you that throwing the ball in the house might be a bad idea, or did you have that realization before breaking mom's vase?See also: dawn

dawn (up)on someone

Fig. [for a fact] to become apparent to someone; [for something] to be suddenly realized by someone. (Upon is formal and less commonly used than on.) Then it dawned upon me that I was actually going to have the job. On the way home, it dawned on me that I had never returned your call, so when I got home I called immediately.See also: dawn, on

dawn on

Also, dawn upon. Become evident or understood, as in It finally dawned on him that he was expected to call them, or Around noon it dawned upon me that I had never eaten breakfast. This expression transfers the beginning of daylight to the beginning of a thought process. Harriet Beecher Stowe had it in Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852): "The idea that they had either feelings or rights had never dawned upon her." [Mid-1800s] See also: dawn, on

dawn on

or dawn uponv. To begin to be perceived or understood by someone; become apparent to someone: It dawned on me that I had forgotten to pick up some milk. A possible motive for the crime dawned upon the detective.See also: dawn, on

dawn on (someone), to

To perceive or understand for the first time. See light dawned. See also: dawn, on
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