dawn

• n. 黎明；开端
• vt. 破晓；出现；被领悟
• n. (Dawn)人名；(西)道恩

1. the first light of day;

"we got up before dawn"

"they talked until morning"

2. the earliest period;

"the dawn of civilization"

"the morning of the world"

3. an opening time period;

"it was the dawn of the Roman Empire"

twilight, dawn, dusk

这些名词含有"黎明，黄昏"之意。

twilight： 指日落后或日出前的微明，但通常侧重于前者。

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。

It was terrible at first, especially getting up before dawn to catch that 6:30 train.

出自-2014年6月听力原文

Still, it is true that American families are growing closer at the dawn of this new millennium ( ' , 千年).

出自-2016年6月阅读原文

We went through a dramatic shift," says Dawn Watkins, the vice president for student affairs.

出自-2011年6月阅读原文

They had titles like Young vs Old, Gray Dawn and The Coming Generational Storm, and their message was blunt: health-care systems were heading for the rocks, pensioners were taking young people to the cleaners, and soon there would be intergenerational warfare.

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

At the crack of dawn, he would run up the slopes with his skis on, an unbelievably back-breaking activity.

2019年6月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section B

Still, it is true that American families are growing closer at dawn of this new millennium(千年).

2016年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

If the line segment angled dawn, as between day 4 and day 5, it would mean that the bird flew fewer kilometers than the day before.

2015年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

It was raining lightly when I arrived in Yangshuo just before dawn.

2015年高考英语全国卷1 语法填空 原文

Yet science has a cultural history, too, with roots going back to the dawn of civilization.

出自-2017年考研阅读原文

They start work at dawn .

天一亮他们就开始干活了。

牛津词典

It's almost dawn.

天快亮了。

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We arrived in Sydney as dawn broke (= as the first light could be seen) .

黎明时分我们到达悉尼。

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I woke up just before dawn.

我正好在拂晓前醒来。

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summer's early dawns

夏日早到的黎明

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He works from dawn till dusk (= from morning till night) .

他从早到晚地工作。

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the dawn of civilization/time/history

文明 / 时代 / 历史的开端

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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 following morning dawned bright and warm.

第二天一大早阳光和煦。

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A new technological age had dawned.

新技术时代已经开始。

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Slowly the awful truth dawned.

可怕的事实慢慢地清晰起来。

牛津词典

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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Nancy woke at dawn.

拂晓时分南希醒了。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

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。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

...the dawn of the radio age.

无线电时代的开端

柯林斯高阶英语词典

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。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

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。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

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。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

The next day dawned sombre and gloomy.

第二天拂晓时，天色阴沉昏暗。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

So you wouldn't consider this to be a normal rescue procedure.

那么这并不符合常规的营救程序,对吗?

电影对白

The cock is the harbinger of dawn.

雄鸡报晓.

《现代英汉综合大词典》

Dawn is beginning to show in the east.

东方露出了曙光.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

We got the order to saddle up just after dawn.

我们得到命令,天一亮就要上好马鞍.

《简明英汉词典》

Dawn began to break.

东方欲晓.

《现代英汉综合大词典》

Rise at dawn and sweep the courtyard.

黎明即起,洒扫庭除.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

来自PIE*dhegwh, 燃烧，发光，词源同day, yesterday. 引申义曙光，黎明。

dawn

dawn: [15] Dawn was originally formed from day. The Old English word dæg ‘day’ formed the basis of dagung, literally ‘daying’, a word coined to designate the emergence of day from night. In Middle English this became daiing or dawyng, which in the 13th to 14th centuries evolved to dai(e)ning or dawenyng, on the model of some such Scandinavian form as Old Swedish daghning. Then in the 15th century the -ing ending was dropped to produce dawn.
=> day

dawn (v.)

c. 1200, dauen, "to dawn, grow light," shortened or back-formed from dauinge, dauing "period between darkness and sunrise," (c. 1200), from Old English dagung, from dagian "to become day," from Proto-Germanic *dagaz "day" (cognates: German tagen "to dawn;" see day (n.)). Probably influenced by Scandinavian cognates (Danish dagning, Old Norse dagan "a dawning"). Related: Dawned; dawning.

dawn (n.)

1590s, from dawn (v.).

1. At dawn I woke him up and said we were leaving.

黎明时分，我把他叫醒，告诉他我们要走了。

来自柯林斯例句

2. I started work at dawn and returned only at nightfall.

我披星戴月地工作。

来自柯林斯例句

3. A breakfast will be served to those who last out till dawn!

坚持到天亮的能吃上早餐！

来自柯林斯例句

4. The business, founded by Dawn and Nigel, suffered financial setbacks.

唐和奈杰尔创办的企业在资金上遇到了一些问题。

来自柯林斯例句

5. Thousands of pounds worth of drugs were seized in dawn raids yesterday.

警方在昨天的凌晨突袭中缴获了价值数千英镑的毒品。

来自柯林斯例句