dawn

英 [dɔːn]

美 [dɔːn]

n. 黎明; 拂晓; 破晓; 开端; 曙光; 萌芽
v. 开始; 变得明朗; 开始清楚

过去式：dawned　第三人称单数：dawns　过去分词：dawned　现在分词：dawning　复数：dawns　

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短语动词

dawn on dawn upon
1. 被领悟；被理解；被想到

短语用例

dawn on sb

使开始明白；使渐渐领悟；使开始理解
if sth dawns on you , you begin to realize it for the first time
1. They start work at dawn .
  天一亮他们就开始干活了。
2. It's almost dawn.
  天快亮了。
3. We arrived in Sydney as dawn broke (= as the first light could be seen) .
  黎明时分我们到达悉尼。
4. I woke up just before dawn.
  我正好在拂晓前醒来。
5. summer's early dawns
  夏日早到的黎明
6. He works from dawn till dusk (= from morning till night) .
  他从早到晚地工作。

习惯用语

break of day/dawn

破晓；黎明
the moment in the early hours of the morning when it begins to get light

at the crack of dawn

黎明；破晓；清晨
very early in the morning

牛津词典

noun

黎明；拂晓；破晓
the time of day when light first appears
1. They start work at dawn .
  天一亮他们就开始干活了。
2. It's almost dawn.
  天快亮了。
3. We arrived in Sydney as dawn broke (= as the first light could be seen) .
  黎明时分我们到达悉尼。
4. I woke up just before dawn.
  我正好在拂晓前醒来。
5. summer's early dawns
  夏日早到的黎明
6. He works from dawn till dusk (= from morning till night) .
  他从早到晚地工作。
开端；曙光；萌芽
the beginning or first signs of sth
1. the dawn of civilization/time/history
  文明 / 时代 / 历史的开端
2. Peace marked a new dawn in the country's history.
  和平使这个国家的历史翻开了新的一页。

verb

开始
to begin
1. The following morning dawned bright and warm.
  第二天一大早阳光和煦。
2. A new technological age had dawned.
  新技术时代已经开始。
变得明朗；开始清楚
to become obvious or easy to understand
1. Slowly the awful truth dawned.
  可怕的事实慢慢地清晰起来。

柯林斯词典

N-VAR 黎明;拂晓
Dawnis the time of day when light first appears in the sky, just before the sun rises.
1. Nancy woke at dawn.
  拂晓时分南希醒了。
N-SING 开端;起始阶段
The dawn ofa period of time or a situation is the beginning of it.
1. We can only guess what went through the mind of a man who could look back to the dawn of powered flight.
  一个能够回想起动力飞行初始阶段的人那时脑子里想了些什么，我们只能够猜测而已。
2. ...the dawn of the radio age.
  无线电时代的开端
VERB 初现;出现;开始形成
If somethingis dawning, it is beginning to develop or come into existence.
1. Throughout Europe a new railway age, that of the high-speed train, has dawned...
  新的铁路时代——高速铁路时代，在整个欧洲已经开始出现。
2. A new era seemed to be about to dawn for the coach and his young team...
  对于那名教练和他的年轻球队来说，一个崭新的时代似乎即将到来。
3. Now there is a dawning realisation that drastic action is necessary.
  现在人们开始意识到必须采取断然的行动。
VERB (一天）到来，开始
When you say that a particular daydawned, you mean it arrived or began, usually when it became light.
1. When the great day dawned, the first concern was the weather...
  当那个不同寻常的日子到来时，大家首先关注的是天气。
2. The next day dawned sombre and gloomy.
  第二天拂晓时，天色阴沉昏暗。
at the crack of dawn→ see:crack

英英释义

noun

the earliest period
1. the dawn of civilization
2. the morning of the world
Synonym:morning
the first light of day
1. we got up before dawn
2. they talked until morning
Synonym:dawningmorningaurorafirst lightdaybreakbreak of daybreak of the daydayspringsunrisesunupcockcrow
an opening time period
1. it was the dawn of the Roman Empire

verb

become light
1. It started to dawn, and we had to get up
become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions
1. It dawned on him that she had betrayed him
2. she was penetrated with sorrow
Synonym:clickget throughcome homeget acrosssink inpenetratefall into place
appear or develop
1. The age of computers had dawned

双语例句

Now there is a dawning realisation that drastic action is necessary.
现在人们开始意识到必须采取断然的行动。
The revels often last until dawn.
狂欢常常持续到黎明。
They continued the search as dawn broke.
天放亮后他们继续搜寻。
Dawn came, the sea calmed but the cold was as bitter as ever.
破晓之际，海面平静了下来，但是寒冷依旧。
I aim to be off the lake before dawn, so let's get moving
我计划黎明前从湖畔出发，大家马上行动起来吧。
In the summer, when we returned to Canada, we revisited this lake at dawn.
夏天我们回到加拿大后，在黎明时分重游了这个湖泊。
Dawn is beginning to show in the east.
东方露出了曙光。
I often start work at the crack of dawn when there is a big order to get out.
有大笔订单要处理时，我经常会清晨便开始工作。
When the great day dawned, the first concern was the weather
当那个不同寻常的日子到来时，大家首先关注的是天气。
Southern acquired 11.2 per cent of Sweb in a dawn raid on Monday.
美国南方电力公司在星期一的开盘抢购中收购了英国西南电力公司11.2%的股份。