twilight
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Danh từ
noun- 1.
(countable, uncountable)The soft light in the sky seen before the rising and (especially) after the setting of the sun, occasioned by the illumination of the earth’s atmosphere by the direct rays of the sun and their reflection on the earth.
Near-synonym: half-light
I could just make out her face in the twilight.
Đồng nghĩa: half-light
- 2.
(countable, uncountable)The time when said light is visible; the period between daylight and darkness.
It was twilight by the time I got back home.
- 3.
(countable, uncountable)Any faint light through which something is seen.
- 4.
(countable, uncountable)(astronomy) The time when the sun is less than 18° below the horizon.
- 5.
(broadly, countable, figuratively, uncountable)(figurative, by extension) An in-between or fading condition through which something is perceived.
The twilight of one's life
, Book IV, Chapter XIV The twilight […] of probability.
Tính từ
adjective- 1.
(not comparable)Pertaining to or resembling twilight; faintly illuminated; obscure.
- 2.
(not comparable)Synonym of mesopelagic (“Describing the pelagic zone of the ocean between the photic epipelagic and the aphotic bathypelagic zones, characterized by very minimal light.”)
twilight zone
Đồng nghĩa: mesopelagic
Động từ
verb- 1.
(poetic, transitive)To illuminate faintly.
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dwóh₁ ine-pro From Middle English twilight, twyelyghte, equivalent to twi- + light, literally ‘second light, half-light’. Cognate to twa licht, twylicht, twielicht (twilight), twilecht, twelecht (twilight), tweelicht, Zwielicht. Compare twēone lēoht.