dawn
noun/dɔːn/
/dɔːn/
Idioms - [uncountable, countable] the time of day when light first appears
黎明；拂晓；破晓；天亮 - at dawn 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).
黎明时分我们到达了悉尼。 - 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。 - The plane took off, leaving London behind in a blue-grey dawn.
飞机起飞，在蓝灰色的黎明中离开伦敦。
Extra ExamplesTopics Timec1- Dawn was breaking over the valley.
黎明降临山谷。 - She awoke to another glorious dawn.
她醒来时又是一个美好的黎明。 - He always got up to greet the dawn.
他总是在拂晓时分起床，迎接黎明的到来。 - Be prepared for cold nights and foggy dawns in the mountains next week.
为下周山区的寒冷夜晚和有雾的黎明做好准备。 - Ammunition was seized during a dawn raid on the house.
在凌晨时份对住户的突击搜查行动中缴获了一批弹药。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- grey/gray
- early
- greet
- see
- watch
- …
- break
- come
- come up
- …
- light
- sky
- chorus
- …
- at dawn
- before dawn
- by dawn
- …
- (at) the crack of dawn
- from dawn to dusk
- at dawn They start work at dawn.
- [singular] dawn (of something) the beginning or first signs of something
开端；曙光；萌芽 - 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 dawn of a golden age in European art
欧洲艺术黄金时代的黎明
Extra Examples- We are seeing the dawn of a new era.
我们看到了新时代的曙光。 - This sudden success may prove to be a false dawn.
这次的突然成功可能只是一线虚幻的曙光。 - This appointment marked the dawn of a productive era in her scientific career.
这一任命标志着她进入了科研生涯的高产阶段。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- false
- new
- mark
- signal
- see
- …
- dawn of
- the dawn of civilization/time/history
Word Originlate 15th cent. (as a verb): back-formation from Middle English dawning alteration of earlier dawing, from Old English dagian ‘to dawn’, of Germanic origin.
Idioms
at the crack of dawn
- (informal) very early in the morning
黎明；破晓；清晨 - I have to get up at the crack of dawn.
我必须在黎明时分起床。
- I have to get up at the crack of dawn.
break of day/dawn
- (literary) the moment in the early hours of the morning when it begins to get light
破晓；黎明