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1 | if a day or morning dawns, it begins to get light 破晓;天亮 |
| The big day dawned with a howling wind and heavy rain. 那个重大的日子天一亮就狂风咆哮,大雨倾盆。 |
| 1a | if something such as a new period in history dawns, it begins 开始;出现 | | The camera age was just dawning, and none of us had ever had our pictures taken before. 照相机时代刚刚到来,以前我们没人照过相。 | |
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2 | if something such as a thought or a feeling dawns, you begin to realize , understand , or feel it 开始明白;开始理解 |
| +that The realization dawned that few of them would survive. 开始意识到他们当中很少人会活下来。 |
PHRASAL VERBS |
- | ˈdawn on |
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| dawn on sb: if something dawns on you , you realize it for the first time 意识到;理解 |
| It was several months before the truth finally dawned on me. 好几个月后我才终于明白了真相。 |
| it dawns on sb that Little by little it dawned on Archie that his wife was not coming back. 阿奇逐渐开始意识到他妻子不会回来了。 |
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