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gloaming

/gloh-ming/US // ˈgloʊ mɪŋ //UK // (ˈɡləʊmɪŋ) //

阴霾,阴郁,阴郁的,阴沉

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : twilight; dusk.

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Examples

  • The camera turns to follow them as, joined by the ad hoc choir on the porch, they cross a vast meadow in the gloaming, singing lustily all the while.

  • On muddy embankments in gloaming forest, you might feel your knees wobble as adolescent gorillas inch to within a foot of where you stand to paw your neighbor’s tripod.

  • But that great-come-and-get-it day-is still shimmering in the mists of the gloaming.

  • To his left, in the gloaming, was a man staring straight at the crowd like a secret serviceman looking for assassins.

  • She tried to peer through the gloaming, and feared her father and mother would mark her troubled eagerness and guess its cause.

  • And so they had still a peaceful gloaming, these two old people, when their changeful day of life was drawing to a close.

  • Only it was like the dawn rather than the gloaming, Katie said, because of the soft brightness that shone on them both.

  • The figure of a man, who in the gray gloaming looked well-dressed, was approaching Mysie, and she was slowly moving to meet him.

  • In the gray quick gloaming the moors and the hills, viewed from the train, seemed to him a country without hope.