dawn

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反義詞

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復(fù)數(shù):?dawns;第三人稱單數(shù):?dawns;過去式:?dawned;過去分詞:?dawned;現(xiàn)在分詞:?dawning;

dawn 黎明

來自PIE*dhegwh, 燃燒，發(fā)光，詞源同day, yesterday. 引申義曙光，黎明。

dawn: dawn: [15] Dawn was originally formed from day. The Old English word d?g ‘day’ formed the basis of dagung, literally ‘daying’, a word coined to designate the emergence of day from night. In Middle English this became daiing or dawyng, which in the 13th to 14th centuries evolved to dai(e)ning or dawenyng, on the model of some such Scandinavian form as Old Swedish daghning. Then in the 15th century the -ing ending was dropped to produce dawn.
=> day
dawn (v.): c. 1200, dauen, "to dawn, grow light," shortened or back-formed from dauinge, dauing "period between darkness and sunrise," (c. 1200), from Old English dagung, from dagian "to become day," from Proto-Germanic *dagaz "day" (cognates: German tagen "to dawn;" see day (n.)). Probably influenced by Scandinavian cognates (Danish dagning, Old Norse dagan "a dawning"). Related: Dawned; dawning.
dawn (n.): 1590s, from dawn (v.).

1. At dawn I woke him up and said we were leaving.: 黎明時(shí)分，我把他叫醒，告訴他我們要走了。

3. A breakfast will be served to those who last out till dawn!: 堅(jiān)持到天亮的能吃上早餐！

4. The business, founded by Dawn and Nigel, suffered financial setbacks.: 唐和奈杰爾創(chuàng)辦的企業(yè)在資金上遇到了一些問題。

5. Thousands of pounds worth of drugs were seized in dawn raids yesterday.: 警方在昨天的凌晨突襲中繳獲了價(jià)值數(shù)千英鎊的毒品。