dawn
- n.黎明;曙光;破晓;拂晓;开端;萌芽
- vi.开始;变得明朗;开始清楚
复数： dawns 过去式： dawned 现在分词： dawning 过去分词： dawned 第三人称单数： dawns
dawnnoun
黎明；拂晓；破晓
the time of day when light first appears
They start work at dawn .
天一亮他们就开始干活了。
It's almost dawn.
天快亮了。
We arrived in Sydney as dawn broke (= as the first light could be seen) .
黎明时分我们到达悉尼。
I woke up just before dawn.
我正好在拂晓前醒来。
summer's early dawns
夏日早到的黎明
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
the dawn of civilization/time/history
文明 / 时代 / 历史的开端
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。
the moment in the early hours of the morning when it begins to get light
very early in the morning
verb
开始
to begin
The following morning dawned bright and warm.
第二天一大早阳光和煦。
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
Slowly the awful truth dawned.
可怕的事实慢慢地清晰起来。
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
Suddenly it dawned on me that they couldn't possibly have met before.
我突然明白他们以前不可能见过面。
dawn
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N-VAR 黎明;拂晓
Dawn is the time of day when light first appears in the sky, just before the sun rises.Nancy woke at dawn.
拂晓时分南希醒了。
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N-SING 开端;起始阶段
The dawn of a period of time or a situation is the beginning of it.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。
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VERB 初现;出现;开始形成
If something is dawning, it is beginning to develop or come into existence.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。
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...the dawning of the space age...
太空时代的开始
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VERB (一天）到来，开始
When you say that a particular day dawned, you mean it arrived or began, usually when it became light.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。
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at the crack of dawn→ see:crack
noun
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- the earliest period
- the dawn of civilization
- the morning of the world
- Synonym: morning
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- the first light of day
- we got up before dawn
- they talked until morning
- Synonym: dawning morning aurora first light daybreak break of day break of the day dayspring sunrise sunup cockcrow
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- an opening time period
- it was the dawn of the Roman Empire
verb
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- become light
- It started to dawn, and we had to get up
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- become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions
- It dawned on him that she had betrayed him
- she was penetrated with sorrow
- Synonym: click get through come home get across sink in penetrate fall into place
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- appear or develop
- The age of computers had dawned
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He was awakened at dawn by the sound of crying .
黎明时他被哭喊声吵醒。
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They attacked the enemy positions at dawn .
黎明时分，他们向敌军阵地发起进攻。
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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。
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The area was inhabited long before the dawn of recorded history .
早在有历史记载之前很久这个地区就有人居住了。
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A new technological age had dawned .
新技术时代已经开始。
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Dawn was breaking when they finally left .
他们终于离开时正是破晓时分。
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They start work at dawn .
天一亮他们就开始干活了。
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I puzzled over the problem for ages before the light suddenly dawned .
我对这个问题冥思苦想了很久才豁然开朗。
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The following morning dawned bright and warm .
第二天一大早阳光和煦。
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At dawn the army attacked the town .
军队在拂晓时向这座城镇发动攻击。
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Soldiers stormed into the city at dawn .
士兵在拂晓时分攻进城里。
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It 's almost dawn .
天快亮了。
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Suddenly it dawned on me that they couldn 't possibly have met before .
我突然明白他们以前不可能见过面。
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He works from dawn till dusk .
他从早到晚地工作。
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New York buzzes from dawn to dusk .
纽约从早到晚都熙熙攘攘的。
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They were arrested during a dawn raid .
在一次清晨的突击搜查中，他们都被捕了。
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Slowly the awful truth dawned .
可怕的事实慢慢地清晰起来。
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The troops landed at dawn .
部队已在黎明登陆。
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We woke at dawn .
我们在黎明醒来。
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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。
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These days all sorts of people were up at the crack of dawn
这些天所有人都一大早就起来。
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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。
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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。
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I started work at dawn and returned only at nightfall .
我披星戴月地工作。
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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。
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The day dawned sunless and with a low cloud base .
黎明时分天气阴沉，云幕低垂。
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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。
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It gradually dawned upon me that I still had talent and ought to run again
我渐渐明白了自己还有才能，应该再次参加竞选。
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They continued the search as dawn broke .
天放亮后他们继续搜寻。
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The next day dawned , thankfully with a drop in wind and waves .
幸运的是，第二天天亮时，风浪平静了些。
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