- 1黃昏、薄暮（傍晚天還沒全黑的那段）
Dusk is the time of day when the sky is becoming less bright, before it is fully dark. The sun has gone, or is almost gone. Street lights come on; it gets harder to see faces. It is later than sunset, and earlier than true night. Dawn is the sister time in the morning; dusk is only the evening slide into dark. People also say twilight, which can be morning or evening; dusk is the evening one. Though actually, some speakers use dusk a little loosely for any gloomy half-light, even indoors, but the home meaning is that outdoor evening hour. It is a quiet, slightly literary word. Children might just say “it's getting dark.”
From the word’s history
From Middle English dosk, from Old English dox 'dark, swarthy'; cognate with Latin fuscus 'dark, dusky'.
源自古英文 dox「暗的」，和拉丁文 fuscus「暗色的」同源。
組成From Middle English dosk, dusk(e) (“dusky”), from Old English dox (“dark”), from a Germanic word for dark or smoky, going back to an old root for smoke, mist, and haze. Related to dye, dust, and dun. Doublet of the rare word fuscous.
同家族的字
- duskydusk + -y — darkish in colour, like the light at dusk
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
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duskadj詞源 1/dʌsk/
- 1
Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.
- A pathless desert, dusk with horrid shades.
dusknoun詞源 1/dʌsk/
- 1
The time after the sun has set but when the sky is still lit by sunlight; the evening twilight period.
- Witnessing the dusk gives a feeling of solace.
- We caught a beautiful view of the dusk.
- 2
A darkish colour.
- Whose dusk set off the whiteness of the skin.
- 3
The condition of being dusky; duskiness
duskverb詞源 2/dʌsk/
- 1
To begin to lose light or whiteness; to grow dusk.
- I see the air benighted And all the dusking dales, And lamps in England lighted,
- 2
To make dusk.
- After the sun is up, that shadow which dusketh the light of the Moone must needs be under the earth.
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