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predawn

/pree-dawn, pree-/US // priˈdɔn, ˈpri- //

天亮前,拂晓前,天亮之前,天亮前的

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the period immediately preceding dawn.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : noting the time immediately prior to dawn.

Examples

  • The Sprint is my choice for backcountry skiing, too, because it’s powerful enough to illuminate the trail if I’m off to a predawn start or stuck on the trail after dusk.

  • The start time for any precipitation, which isn’t fully guaranteed to show up, could be as early as around midnight or into the predawn.

  • If the precipitation materializes, it probably would begin very late Saturday night into the predawn hours Sunday and continue through around midday Sunday.

  • The forecast radar shown below, from the HRRR, indicates the snow breaks out predawn and continues into the evening.

  • Any snow locally should tend to end in the predawn period, but it may last through sunrise or shortly thereafter to the south in particular.

  • A predawn firefight has left at least one, and possibly as many as four pro-Russian activists dead.

  • By then, smoke was filling part of the ship, billowing up to the top decks in the predawn light.

  • Jessica Buchanan is safe after a daring predawn raid on the Somali pirate compound where she was held for four months.

  • Knowing that nothing was in sight but waiting was a letdown after the activity of the predawn hours.

  • After breakfast they stepped into the cold predawn blackness.