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sunset

/suhn-set/US // ˈsʌnˌsɛt //UK // (ˈsʌnˌsɛt) //

日落,夕阳,落日,夕阳西下

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the setting or descent of the sun below the horizon in the evening.
    • : the atmospheric and scenic phenomena accompanying this.
    • : the time when the sun sets.
    • : the close or final stage of any period.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : old; declining: sunset industries.
    • : of, relating to, or characteristic of a sunset law: to add sunset restrictions to a bill.

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Examples

  • The final amendment will have the city’s ordinance sunset if AB 3216 goes into effect at the state level.

  • Thanks to their size, any one of these can easily double as a bathing suit cover up—the material is lightweight enough to tie at the hip—or as a blanket, after sunset.

  • Paying for that, Ikhrata told me, would require a one cent countywide sales tax with no sunset.

  • He and Aguilar, the 16-year-old CEO, work from before sunrise to after sunset, but on occasion they decompress with Ping-Pong or an episode or two of a TV show — often HBO’s Silicon Valley, where they see themselves.

  • If you’re looking for great plain sunsets and a down to earth community, Denver is calling you home.

  • We wrote Before Sunset and Before Midnight while we were working on Boyhood, and all those films are all about time.

  • “We shoot at Sunset Gower Studios, and you can see the street through the gate,” he says.

  • But in 2013, the Van Gogh Museum finally overcame its reservations and authenticated Sunset at Montmajour.

  • “On the whole I kind of quite like my films without watching them every night like Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard,” he said.

  • “One club I worked at, Sunset Strip, they caught a 15-year-old girl trying to audition,” Sharky recalled.

  • In dry weather, they are now to be watered with lukewarm water softly showered upon them, between sunset and twilight.

  • Every evening, at sunset, the gates were closed, and during the night no one was allowed to pass through in either direction.

  • The prophets had long been painting the visionary dawn with pigments of that glorious sunset.

  • He heard himself speaking in an even tone about the view, the river, the gold of the coming sunset.

  • "I tell you," he said, and turned his head to look wistfully up at the eastern coulée-rim, all tinted with the blazing sunset.