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.

可以想成清晨前的天空:黑一點一點退成灰,第一道微光從地平線邊緣透出來。dawn 就是這第一道光,一天正要開始的那個瞬間。

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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