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单词 twilight
释义
twilight
noun
uk
/ˈtwaɪ.laɪt/us
/ˈtwaɪ.laɪt/

twilightnoun(EVENING)

[U]
theperiodjust before itbecomescompletelydarkin theevening:
黄昏时分，薄暮时分
I could make out adarkfigureinthetwilight.暮色中我能辨认出一个黑影。
picture of twilight
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Days & times of day
  • afternoon
  • afternoons
  • am
  • arvo
  • at the crack of dawnidiom
  • happy hour
  • high noon
  • hour
  • in broad daylightidiom
  • in the dead of night/winteridiom
  • night
  • nocturnal
  • nocturnally
  • noon
  • noontime
  • o'clock
  • the witching hour
  • wee small hours
  • workday
  • working day
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Darkness & becoming dark

twilightnoun(FINAL PART)

the twilight ofsomethingliterary
thefinalpartof aperiod:
晚期
Iknewhim when he wasinthe twilight of hiscareer.我在他职业生涯的晚期才认识他。
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Stages & phases
  • beta
  • early-stage
  • early-term
  • in phase/out of phaseidiom
  • interstage
  • landmark
  • leg
  • multi-phase
  • multi-step
  • multiphasic
  • partway
  • period
  • phase
  • point
  • shovel-ready
  • stage
  • step
  • stepping stone
  • tertiary
  • the home straight

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Ends and endings

Idiom

twilight years
twilight
adjective
literary
uk
/ˈtwaɪ.laɪt/us
/ˈtwaɪ.laɪt/
used todescribea way oflifethatinvolvesillegalorimmoralactivities, and is on theedgeofnormalsociety:
（生活）处于社会边缘的，不安稳的
Theremaininginhabitantsof this once-prosperoustownhave got used to a twilightexistence.这个曾经繁华的商业重镇里遗留下的居民已经习惯了动荡不安的生活。
Leaving asecurejobfor the twilightworldofpopmusicmay have been amistake.抛弃安稳的工作进入充满未知的流行音乐界也许是个错误。
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Strange, suspicious and unnatural
  • aberrant
  • abnormal
  • abnormally
  • add
  • Alice-in-Wonderland
  • freakishness
  • funnily
  • funnily enoughidiom
  • ghostliness
  • ghoul
  • perverse
  • perversely
  • perversity
  • perverted
  • pervy
  • unorthodox
  • wack
  • wackadoodle
  • wackiness
  • wacky
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Idiom

twilight zone
(Definition oftwilightfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

twilight| American Dictionary

twilight
noun[U]
us
/ˈtwɑɪˌlɑɪt/
thelowleveloflightwhen it is late in theday, just before thedarknessofnight, or thisperiodof theday
fig.Twilight is also any lateperiod, when the end of something is near:
Thebookpresentsacompellingportraitof thesingerin the twilight of hercareer.
(Definition oftwilightfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoftwilight

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We recognise our responsibility to those living on the edges and margins, the twilights and shadows of our society.
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The shadows are full of worshippers and beautiful things that live in their misty twilights.
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Their discourse was one of 'twilight' and ' decline ' as far as the autocracy was concerned, not of its liberalization.
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The light refers to the long summer twilights and the aurora australis (southern lights).
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Twilight's magic is not strong enough to stop it, though they can get some of the phenomena somewhat under control.
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Sandhya literally means transition moments of the day namely the two twilights: dawn and dusk and the solar noon.
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The difference in daylength between this definition and civiltwilightis about 1 h at 41x latitude.
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The short night was not long passing, it being merely atwilightof an hour or so.
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Their main concern was the theory of trepidation, the obliquity of the ecliptic, - as well as the determination of the beginning of dawn andtwilight.
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Of the two geometries most likely to be the generator of the curves p1 -p4, one has to be adopted; there is notwilightzone of either/or.
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First, the understanding of accounting in context breaks with the narrowly technical and highly ethnocentric understandings of accounting that inhabit thetwilightworld between theory and practice.
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The appearance of colors intwilight.
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Fish behaviour by day, night andtwilight.
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He says that there are 650,000 slums and a total of 2,750,000 slums andtwilighthouses, so his definition allows a certain amount of looseness.
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Much that happens now in the sort of dim industrialtwilightmight well be brought into the clear light of day.
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