| 单词 | crepuscule |
| 释义 | crepuscule (once / 347627 pages) n Crepuscule is twilight or dusk. It’s that period of not quite dark and not quite light, right after sunset. Night is dark, while day is light (as long as it’s not cloudy). Then there are times when it’s mixed: like crepuscule. Crepuscule is a time of partial darkness, as the sun has just set. This in-between time is also called dusk. In fact, English is blessed with many words that mean dusk — such as evenfall, gloam, gloaming, and nightfall — but when you want to set a poetic tone, crepuscule (which comes from Latin) is hard to beat. WORD FAMILYcrepuscule USAGE EXAMPLESThe best are the Monk ballads “Ugly Beauty” and “Crepuscule With Nellie”: slow and distorted, filthy and graceful. New York Times(Jul 13, 2012) A few of the older streets lie in perpetual crepuscule, being vaulted by gigantic elms and limes as opaque as arches of masonry. Wolfe, Theodore F. (Theodore Frelinghuysen), A Literary Pilgrimage Among the Hau...(2012) But could he manage it for 30 seconds during a damp crépuscule in deepest Staffordshire? The Guardian(Jul 29, 2011) n the time of day immediately following sunset Syn|Hypo|Hyper crepuscle, dusk, evenfall, fall, gloam, gloaming, nightfall, twilight night a shortening of nightfall hour, time of day clock time |
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