n.
- 微明;薄暮;微光[U]
- 黃昏;黎明[U]These animals begin the night's hunt at twilight.
這些動物在黃昏時分開始一夜的覓食。
- 衰退期;(人的)暮年,晚期[the S]The old man is in the twilight of his career.
這老人已經進入了他生涯的晚期。
- 朦朧狀態;模糊狀態[S]For three days the patient lay in a twilight of fever.
病人發燒整整三天,一直迷迷糊糊。
a.
- 曙暮光的;微明的;昏暗的
- 衰落時期的;暮年的,晚期的The old man spent most of his twilight years working on his autobiography.
老人暮年的大部分時間都在寫他的自傳。
辨析
同義:
n.薄暮,黃昏,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 dawna.朦朧的,模糊的,陰暗的,陰鬱的
crepuscular dim obscure faint pale dusky shadowy shady umbrageous dark darkish darksome gloomy lowering tenebrous同義參見:
dawn