twilight

['twailait]

n.黄昏, 微光, 含糊不清, 衰落时期

n.

1. 微明; 薄暮; 微光[U]

2. 黄昏; 黎明[U]

These animals begin the night's hunt at twilight.

这些动物在黄昏时分开始一夜的觅食。

3. 衰退期; (人的)暮年, 晚期[the S]

The old man is in the twilight of his career.

这老人已经进入了他生涯的晚期。

4. 朦胧状态; 模糊状态[S]

For three days the patient lay in a twilight of fever.

病人发烧整整三天, 一直迷迷糊糊。

a.

1. 曙暮光的; 微明的; 昏暗的

2. 衰落时期的; 暮年的, 晚期的

The old man spent most of his twilight years working on his autobiography.

老人暮年的大部分时间都在写他的自传。

词形变化

动词过去式: twigged | 动词过去分词: twigged | 动词现在分词: twigging | 动词第三人称单数: twigs |

词义辨析

同义:

n.薄暮, 黄昏, 傍晚, 微光

dusk  late afternoon  shank of the evening  evening  eventide  evenfall  sundown  sunset  moonrise  day's end  decline of day  edge of night  edge of darkness  nightfall  half light  faint light  gloam  gauzy light of dawn  premonition of dawn

a.朦胧的, 模糊的, 阴暗的, 阴郁的

crepuscular  dim  obscure  faint  pale  dusky  shadowy  shady  umbrageous  dark  darkish  darksome  gloomy  lowering  tenebrous  

同义参见:

night  dawn  

英英释义

名词 twilight:

the time of day immediately following sunset

同义词：dusk, gloaming, gloam, nightfall, evenfall, fall, crepuscule, crepuscle

the diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon but its rays are refracted by the atmosphere of the earth

a condition of decline following successes

形容词 twilight:

lighted by or as if by twilight

同义词：dusky, twilit

补充

twilighttwilight英:[ˈtwailait] 美:[ˈtwaɪˌlaɪt]n.1.黄昏; 黎明You'll most likely see these animals at twilight.黄昏时分你很可能会看到这些动物。

例句

1. He flew out into the deepening autumn twilight.他冲进了渐浓的秋日暮色中。 2. I couldn't quite make out the shapes in the twilight.在朦胧的暮色中, 我看不清那些人影。 3. They returned at twilight.他们黄昏时分回来了。 4. Now both men are in the twilight of their careers.现在两个男人的事业都处于没落期。 5. I am getting old. I am in the twilight of my life.我老了, 到生命的暮年了。 6. He was brought up in the twilight years of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.他成长于奥匈帝国的衰落时期。 7. McClellan ended up blind and virtually immobile, living a twilight existence.麦克莱伦最后失明了, 几乎寸步难行, 过着一种模模糊糊的生活。 8. a pleasant walk in the woods at twilight.黄昏时美好的林中散步。 9. he was in the twilight of his career.他处于事业的晚期。 10. The sun set and twilight fell.太阳落山，暮色降临。 11. in the autumn twilight在秋天的暮光中 12. We had to stop working at twilight. [=dusk]黄昏时分我们不得不停止工作。 13. a twilight baseball game [=a game played at twilight]黄昏时分的棒球赛 14. We heard the birds chirping in the twilight hours.黄昏时分我们听到鸟儿啾啾地鸣叫。 15. He's in the twilight of his career. [=the last part of his career]他的职业生涯正在落幕。 16. He became less radical in his twilight years.他晚年的时候不那么激进了。