单词详解 

1. n.

A.黎明，拂晓 (the time at the beginning of the day when light first appear)

Farmers work from dawn till dark. 农民们从天亮一直工作到天黑。

B.开端，萌芽 (the time when something began or first appeared)

The war was ended and people looked forward to the dawn of much happier days.

大战结束了，人们盼望着更加美好的日子的来临。

2. vi.

A.破晓；（天）刚亮 (if day or morning dawns, it begins)

We were waiting for the day to dawn. 我们正在等待天明。

B.开始出现(literary if a period of time or situation dawns, it begins)

The space age dawned in the twentieth century. 太空时代开始于二十世纪。

相关词组

1. at dawn拂晓；天一亮

Tourists reached the mountaintop at dawn. 游客们于黎明时抵达山顶。

2. before dawn凌晨；黎明前；拂晓

Usually the darkest hour comes before dawn. 通常拂晓之前，是最黑暗的时刻。

3. dawn on开始被理解；渐渐明白

At what stage in his life did that idea first dawn on him?

在他人生的哪个阶段他开始顿悟的？

4. crack of dawn 破晓；黎明

My brother had to wake up at the crack of dawn to go to the airport.

弟弟得要在破晓时分就起床前往机场。

相关单词

名词复数：dawns

过去式：dawned

过去分词：dawned

现在分词：dawning

同义词：morning, origin

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词语辨析：dawn, dusk

dawn, dusk

这些名词含有“黎明，黄昏”之意。

dawn: 指天刚亮时的黎明，可作引申用。

dusk: 指接近夜晚的黄昏时刻。

词语详解

1. dawn: 指天刚亮时的黎明，可作引申用。

Tourists reached the mountaintop at dawn. 游客们于黎明时抵达山顶。

2. dusk: 指接近夜晚的黄昏时刻。

The city lights go on at dusk. 黄昏时候城市的灯就亮了。