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核心畫面

Picture the sky just before morning: the black to grey, the first thin light showing at the edge of the world. Dawn is that first light — the moment a day begins.

可以想成清晨前的天空：黑一點一點退成灰，第一道微光從地平線邊緣透出來。dawn 就是這第一道光，一天正要開始的那個瞬…更多收起可以想成清晨前的天空：黑一點一點退成灰，第一道微光從地平線邊緣透出來。dawn 就是這第一道光，一天正要開始的那個瞬間。

From the word’s history

Dawn is bound up with 'day' (Old English dagian 'to become day') — the word for first light grows straight out of the word for the day itself.

dawn 和 day 同源（古英語 dagian，意思是『天亮起來』）；講第一道光的這個字，就是從『白天』那個字長出來的。

etymonline.com/word/dawn

Three branches

天亮·字面的第一道光

這一組就是字面上的天亮——天空第一道光出現的那個時刻，名詞是那個時間點，動詞是它亮起來的動作。

daybreak · noun · B2

The time at the start of the day, when the first light appears in the sky.

黎明／破曉

開端·某事物的開始

把天亮的畫面借去講抽象的事：任何東西的『第一道光』——一個時代、一段時期、一個新局面剛剛揭開的時候。

beginning, onset · noun · B2

The point in time when something new is just coming into existence.

開端／起源

恍然明白·心裡的光

同樣是『光進來』，只是這次亮的是腦袋：本來一片模糊，某個念頭忽然照進來、看清楚了。

dawn on someone · verb · B2

If a fact or idea dawns on you, you suddenly begin to understand or realize it for the first time.

恍然明白

原始詞典資料8 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Dawnname

  • 1

    A female given name from English, sometimes given to a girl born at dawn.

    • "Thomas, if it's a boy," she said, "after my uncle. But if it's a girl I'd like something fancy for a first name." "What about Dawn?" she said. "I like the sound of Dawn. Then Mary for a second name. Dawn Mary Parker, it sounds sweet."
    • Dawn, go away, I’m no good for you.

dawnverb/dɔːn/

  • 1

    To begin to brighten with daylight.

    • A new day dawns.
    • In the end of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene[…]to see the sepulchre.
  • 2

    To start to appear or become obvious.

    • I don’t want to be there when the truth dawns on him.
    • The realization dawned on him that few would pass that final exam.
  • 3

    To begin to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand.

    • when life awakes, and dawns at every line
    • in dawning youth

dawnnoun/dɔːn/

  • 1

    The morning twilight period immediately before sunrise.

  • 2

    The rising of the sun.

    • Every act of a Roman, from birth to death, from dawn to night, was controlled and supervised by some presiding deity.
  • 3

    The time when the sun rises.

    • She rose before dawn to meet the train.
  • 4

    The earliest phase of something.

    • The dawn of civilization didn't imply twilight of barbarity.
    • In the Edinburgh area, Leith and neighbouring Granton have only one terminal station where formerly there were four, and the long-established ferry from Granton to Burntisland, the history of which stretches back to the dawn of Scottish railways, is no more.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。