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twi.light5twaI7laItn [U]the period just before it becomes completely dark in the evening暮光，暮色; 黄昏; 暮年，晚期I could make out a dark figure in the twilight.暮色中我能辨清一个黑影。They descended the stairs and went out into a thickening twilight.他们走下楼梯, 走进变浓的暮色中去。The streets became increasingly eerie in a fake twilight created by a smog of mist and smoke.笼罩在由迷雾和炊烟造成的虚假暮光中的街道变得越来越恐怖了。(fig.) Keith is only one of several players in the twilight of (= in the last years of/at the end of) his career.凯斯是几个快结束体育生涯的队员之一。Twilight is used to describe a way of life characterized by uncertainty and difficult or slightly illegal situations, which is on the edge of normal society.暮年; 衰落的生活, 败落颓废的生活The remaining inhabitants of this once-prosperous market town have got used to a twilight existence.这个曾经繁华的商业重镇的残留居民已经习惯了暮气沉沉的生活。He said that leaving a secure job for'the twilight world of pop music'was a mistake.他说抛弃稳固的工作参加‘流行音乐昏暗的世界’ 是一个错误。I'm not just talking about people well into their twilight years (= the last years of their lives).我不仅仅谈论进入暮年的人们。The twilight zone is an area where two different ways of life or states of existence meet.（介于两种生活方式和生存状态之间的）过渡区域; 过渡状态，模糊状态the twilight zone between life and death弥留之际There are hundreds of thousands of old people living in that long twilight zone of extreme debilitation and touched by senility.成千上万的老人生活在极度虚弱和老态龙钟的漫长暮年里。"The Twilight Zone" (title of a television series of horror stories, 1950s-)《生死界》（恐怖电视连续剧）
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