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dusk

/duhsk/US // dʌsk //UK // (dʌsk) //

傍晚时分,黄昏时分,黄昏,傍晚时份

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the state or period of partial darkness between day and night; the dark part of twilight.
    • : partial darkness; shade; gloom: She was barely visible in the dusk of the room.

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Examples

  • Everyplace, here in the eastern Coachella Valley, looked gorgeous … for 20 minutes at dusk.

  • So if you have an unobstructed view to the west, you can catch Mars, the moon, Mercury and Venus lined up vertically in the dusk for the next two nights.

  • She grew more restless around dusk, knowing it was dawn back home, and that her WeChat messages could light up any minute with bad news.

  • From midmorning to dusk people cluster around the fire pits outside the lodge, eating, drinking and laughing.

  • The civil dusk of an old year and era merges and moves through night into the civil dawn of a new one.

  • If Blake is to make his escape at dusk, what time does the sun set?

  • Around them, Kansas City glowed in the midsummer dusk; ahead of them glimmered the future.

  • With dusk approaching, the massive crowd marched north on Florissant.

  • As dusk approaches, a fog creeps up the slope of the mountain and swallows the sprawling city below—just like Pablo promised.

  • The town center was still clear of Ukrainian security forces at dusk.

  • The handkerchief glimmered on the counter, more white than anything else in that grey dusk.

  • "I shall like it," answered Hugh, glad that his face should be hidden by the dusk, in these moments of waiting.

  • His chin, thrust slightly forward in a manner almost aggressive, showed the dusk of close-shaven hair.

  • And she thanked Heaven that in the dusk and in the shadow where she stood he could but ill make out her face.

  • The revelation was made soon after tea, when she sidled close up to him as they paced slowly along the sea-front in the dusk.