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afterlight

/af-ter-lahyt, ahf-/US // ˈæf tərˌlaɪt, ˈɑf- //

后光,余光,余晖,余辉

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the light visible in the sky after sunset; afterglow.
    • : a view of past events; retrospect.

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Examples

  • My conduct, as well as yours, when we look at it calmly in an afterlight, was quite extraordinary.

  • The deodars sank waist deep into filmy shadow, and the yellow afterlight lay silently among the branches.

  • The sun had set some time since, but the landscape was still clear in the mellow afterlight.

  • But it was evening now and the valley beneath us was brimmed up with the glow of the afterlight.

  • Alppain had set, but the whole northern sky was plunged into the minor key by its afterlight.