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Think of the light the sun gives between morning and dark — the light you see by without turning anything on. Its point is not only 'daytime' but 'visible': in daylight, things cannot hide.

可以想成太陽給的那層光：從天亮到天黑之間，屋裡、街上不用開燈就看得見東西的那種亮。daylight 的重點不只是「白…更多收起可以想成太陽給的那層光：從天亮到天黑之間，屋裡、街上不用開燈就看得見東西的那種亮。daylight 的重點不只是「白天」，還有「看得見」——這層光讓東西無所遁形。這個字除了本義之外，其餘用法都鎖在固定片語裡，而且全都偏口語。

原始詞典資料17 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。

daylightnoun/ˈdeɪlaɪt/

  • 1

    The natural light that is ambient in daytime, being mostly sunlight (both direct and indirect, on either sunny days or cloudy days).

    • Meronym: sunbeams
    • Near-synonyms: sunlight, sunshine
  • 2

    A light source that simulates daylight.

  • 3

    The intensity distribution of light over the visible spectrum generated by the Sun under various conditions or by other light sources intended to simulate natural daylight.

  • 4

    The period of time between sunrise and sunset.

    • burning daylight
    • wasting daylight
  • 5

    Daybreak.

    • We had only two hours to work before daylight.
    • Towards the following morning, the thermometer fell to 5°; and at daylight, there was not an atom of water to be seen in any direction.
  • 6

    Exposure to public scrutiny.

    • Budgeting a spy organization can't very well be done in daylight.
  • 7

    A clear, open space.

    • All small running backs instinctively run to daylight.
    • He could barely see daylight through the complex clockwork.
  • 8

    The space between platens on a press or similar machinery.

    • The minimum and maximum daylights on an injection molding machine determines the sizes of the items it can make.
另外 3 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    Emotional or psychological distance between people, or disagreement.

    • We completely agree. There's no daylight between us on the issue.
    • Sometimes hosts are a little saltier when the cameras aren’t rolling, but I don’t recall ever hearing any daylight between the views they express on-air and off.
  • 10

    Meaningful or noticeable difference or distinction between two things, especially concepts.

    • There's not much daylight between saying that the universe is God and saying that God doesn't exist.
  • 11

    The gap between the top of a drinking-glass and the level of drink it is filled with.

daylightverb/ˈdeɪlaɪt/

  • 1

    To expose to daylight

    • […] the Morlocks, subterranean for innumerable generations, had come at last to find the daylit surface intolerable.
    • […] she was not looking at the daylit, sunny world which she so wanted to see.
  • 2

    architectureTo provide sources of natural illumination such as skylights or windows.

  • 3

    To allow light in, as by opening drapes.

  • 4

    civil-engineeringengineeringnatural-sciencesTo run a drainage pipe to an opening from which its contents can drain away naturally.

  • 5

    To gain exposure to the open.

    • The seam of coal daylighted at a cliff by the river.
    • Tunnels were enlarged or daylighted and clearances generally greatly improved.
  • 6

    To moonlight (work a second, often illicit job) during the daytime.

    • But I find that we have a large number of service wives who are daylighting. Some of them are not only working in the evening, but also during the day.

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。