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Lit by twilight — that soft, dim, half-dark light just after the sun goes down, or just before it comes up. A twilit room, a twilit street, twilit hills: everything is visible but nothing is bright, colours go grey-blue, and edges lose their sharpness. This is a literary word. You will find it in novels, poems and careful descriptive writing; almost nobody says it out loud. In ordinary speech people say 'in the twilight' or 'half-dark' instead. Note the spelling — it is twilit, not 'twilighted'; the ending copies 'lit', the past form of 'light'.
被暮色照著的、暮光中的(文學用語)
組成twilight + lit. Twilight itself is twi- ('two', or 'half') + light — the light between day and night. 'Lit' is the past participle of 'light', so twilit is literally 'lighted by twilight'.
原始詞典資料2 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。
twilitadj/ˈtwaɪlɪt/
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Illuminated by or as if by twilight; half-lit.
- He was like someone lying in twilit, formless, preëxistence, and stretching out his hands lovingly towards many-coloured, many-sounding life.
- The effect of the closing inside the booths was to turn the line of concessions into a twilit tunnel.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形:
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。