Picture the sky just before morning: the black to grey, the first thin light showing at the edge of the world. Dawn is that first light — the moment a day begins.
From the word’s history
Dawn is bound up with 'day' (Old English dagian 'to become day') — the word for first light grows straight out of the word for the day itself.
dawn 和 day 同源(古英語 dagian,意思是『天亮起來』);講第一道光的這個字,就是從『白天』那個字長出來的。
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原始詞典資料8 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Dawnname
- 1
A female given name from English, sometimes given to a girl born at dawn.
- "Thomas, if it's a boy," she said, "after my uncle. But if it's a girl I'd like something fancy for a first name." "What about Dawn?" she said. "I like the sound of Dawn. Then Mary for a second name. Dawn Mary Parker, it sounds sweet."
- Dawn, go away, I’m no good for you.
dawnverb/dɔːn/
- 1
To begin to brighten with daylight.
- A new day dawns.
- In the end of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene[…]to see the sepulchre.
- 2
To start to appear or become obvious.
- I don’t want to be there when the truth dawns on him.
- The realization dawned on him that few would pass that final exam.
- 3
To begin to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand.
- when life awakes, and dawns at every line
- in dawning youth
dawnnoun/dɔːn/
- 1
The morning twilight period immediately before sunrise.
- 2
The rising of the sun.
- Every act of a Roman, from birth to death, from dawn to night, was controlled and supervised by some presiding deity.
- 3
The time when the sun rises.
- She rose before dawn to meet the train.
- 4
The earliest phase of something.
- The dawn of civilization didn't imply twilight of barbarity.
- In the Edinburgh area, Leith and neighbouring Granton have only one terminal station where formerly there were four, and the long-established ferry from Granton to Burntisland, the history of which stretches back to the dawn of Scottish railways, is no more.
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