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A drink — usually alcoholic — that you have in the early evening, around the time the sun is going down. The word is not really about the drink itself but about the occasion: sitting outside at the end of the day, watching the light go, glass in hand, work finished. It is most at home in British English and especially in southern and eastern Africa, where 'sundowners' (usually plural) is a standing social habit — 'come over for sundowners'. Safari lodges and hotels use it constantly. It sounds relaxed and slightly colonial-nostalgic; Americans mostly do not say it. Countable: 'a sundowner', 'a few sundowners'. Two warnings about other meanings you may stumble on: in old Australian slang a 'sundowner' was a tramp who turned up at a farm at , too late to work but in time for a free meal; and in medicine 'sundowning' describes confusion that gets worse in the evening in people with dementia. Different things — read the context.
黃昏小酌、傍晚喝的（那杯）酒（英式用法，非洲旅遊、渡假村常見，美國人少講）
組成sundown + -er. The '-er' here does not mean a person doing something; it names the thing that belongs to that time — the drink of sundown.
原始詞典資料9 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。
sundownernoun
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obsoleteAn itinerant worker, such as a swagman, who arrives at a farm too late in the day to do any work, but readily accepts food and lodging.
- What he saw was not usual in this part of Australia - a sundowner, a bush waif who tramps from north to south or from east to west, never working, cadging rations from the far-flung homesteads and having the ability of the camel to do without water, or find it.
- Like the Australian sundowners, some of these trampers were suspected of never wanting to find a job.
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obsoleteAn itinerant worker, a swagman.
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nauticaltransportA sea captain who shows harsh discipline by requiring all hands to be on board by sundown.
- Arrogant, aloof, and suspicious, a “sundowner,” or strict disciplinarian, King inspired respect in many but affection in few.
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medicinesciencesA patient, usually demented, who tends to become agitated in the evening.
- These patients may improve by day only to relapse at night (nocturnal delirium or sundowner's syndrome).
- They generally occur in the evening or at night in the form of "sundowner" syndrome, as a result of diminished sensory input and social isolation and/or exposure to an unfamiliar environment (e.g., the hospital).
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A cocktail consumed at sunset, or to signify the end of the day.
- The cocktail, the universal “sherry and bitters” and sundowner will have to be retained.
- Mrs. Lowe-Island […] had imagined the Sports Club as a large shadowy veranda, with native servants standing like willing statues around the walls, plenty of sundowners, and that laughter which is the result of personal comment […].
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A cocktail party held in the early evening.
- The Sundowner is basically a cocktail party with a buffet on a riverbank in the bush.
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A physician employed by the government who practises for private fees after his official hours.
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Any worker who practises for private fees after official hours.
- These "sundowners" hold jobs in other — usually related — trades, and do their servicing nights and weekends.
- […] according to Home Furnishings Daily, “Public exposure of the sundowners provides strong support for our campaign for state licensing of TV technicians. […]
另外 1 個記錄的用法
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A northerly offshore wind which occurs in California along the southern Pacific slope of Santa Ynez Mountains when a region of high pressure is north of the area (the coast of which trends east to west), often preceding or following a Santa Ana and typically occurring at night and ceasing during the day (hence the name).
- […] Sundowners originate as a high pressure nudges onto the coast of San Luis […]
- […]winds, and "sundowners" (a dry north wind descending into southern California coastal valleys west of Los Angeles at sunset, displacing moist sea breezes). Extensive burning also occurs during heat waves caused by seaward retreat[…]
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。