twilight的意思|twilight的解释-里氏词典

twilight ['twailait]

n. 暮光, 曙光, 黎明, 黄昏, 微光, 朦胧状态

a. 微明的

[医] 朦胧

twilight

[ noun ]

the time of day immediately following sunset

<noun.time>

he loved the twilight

they finished before the fall of night

the diffused light from the sky when the sun is below the horizon but its rays are refracted by the atmosphere of the earth

<noun.phenomenon>

a condition of decline following successes

<noun.state>

in the twilight of the empire

[ adj ]

lighted by or as if by twilight

<adj.all>

The dusky night rides down the sky/And ushers in the morn

the twilight glow of the sky

a boat on a twilit river

Twilight \Twi"light`\, n. [OE. twilight, AS. twi- (see {Twice})
+ le['o]ht light; hence the sense of doubtful or half light;
cf. LG. twelecht, G. zwielicht. See {Light}.]
1. The light perceived before the rising, and after the
setting, of the sun, or when the sun is less than 18[deg]
below the horizon, occasioned by the illumination of the
earth's atmosphere by the direct rays of the sun and their
reflection on the earth.

2. faint light; a dubious or uncertain medium through which
anything is viewed.

As when the sun . . . from behind the moon,
In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds. --Milton.

The twilight of probability. --Locke.

Twilight \Twi"light`\, a.
1. Seen or done by twilight. --Milton.

2. Imperfectly illuminated; shaded; obscure.

O'er the twilight groves and dusky caves. --Pope.

WHAT WERE the bellwethers of the middle and twilight years of Margaret Thatcher's Britain?
Gun salvos and prayer calls from minarets echoed throughout the Persian Gulf at twilight Wednesday to herald the beginning of Eid al-Fitr, the feast of the fast-breaking.
Other conservatives, though, argue that with the approaching twilight of the Reagan era, economic issues should be secondary.
But about four hours later, in the murky twilight that passes for night during Alaska summers, the fish escaped _ leaving Ploeger and everyone else wondering how big it really was.
But when I pack up my bags in Washington, don't expect me to be happy to hear all this talk about the twilight of my life.
"We are in a gray twilight zone," agreed Sun Won Sohn, chief economist for Norwest Corp. in Minneapolis.
Honda gave up on offbeat ads last year, after several of its scooter commercials went beyond left field into the twilight zone.
Actress Anne Ramsey, whose grotesque character in "Throw Momma From the Train" won her an Oscar nomination and a following in the twilight of her career, died of throat cancer.
In the twilight of Nov. 28, 9-year-old Juanita Martinez was struck by a car and killed as the driver rushed to work.
However, he may be in the twilight of his recording career.
While most actors would be happy to seem ageless as they hit the twilight years, it was Burt Lancaster's special grace always to seem full of the ages.
A staple of prime-time TV in the 1950s, wrestling had been in the twilight zone of weekend syndication.
I recalled a watch-tower on its summit, a barrack block half way up its face and a wire fence running at right angles to the river. This time the rock loomed up in the last flicker of twilight.
I needed Irish whimsy and soft Celtic twilight. Hibernian at-one-ness is not achieved just like that.
Long after it has sunk below the horizon, feluccas continue to glide and swirl on the river below like swallows on a twilight hunt. 10.30pm.
It was the twilight of the aristocracy and the dawn of the peasant - when the rumba met the revolutionary and more than just the music died.
But the appearance of calm on twilight sidewalks crowded with card players and watermelon vendors masks deep political undercurrents.
Here, perhaps, lay the answer: A catholic mission to old English vicarages, conducted in twilight with two tame females in tow. Perhaps it began as something of the sort, but by late July the three had become five.
It's at this point that Taiwan's Central Bank enters a financial twilight zone.
At 11:32 p.m. EDT, the astronauts passed through an area called the equigravisphere, a "twilight zone" in which the gravitational influence of the Earth and moon is about equal.
He said he rushed to the 11-acre dump in the twilight after hearing a radio report the fire was out.
A twilight inaugural extravaganza at the stately Lincoln Memorial on Wednesday was marked by a flyover of Navy jets, a massive fireworks display and music by the Beach Boys and other groups.
Assumptions ingrained since childhood, for old and young, are being overturned. Coming to terms with the break-up of the Union demands a psychological step of the imagination which is too great an emotional exertion for many in their twilight years.
Prior to their Olympic return, the pair had been in the twilight of their career but winning will almost certainly revitalise it.
He didn't run very far." Director Ingmar Bergman is turning 70, having reached what he calls the twilight of his career but basking in a run of theater successes.
It lays out the twilight bedsit world as a fluorescent ground plan, like the glowing ruins of an old domestic settlement worn down to the foundations.
The contrail was the result of a "twilight phenomenon," said Master Sgt. Bruce Zielsdorf, a Vandenberg spokesman.
So they divided the court, lowered some of the ceilings, closed off most of the skylights, and turned the galleries into twilight zones.
His magnanimous mood enables him to skip over incidents which have become some of the most enduring tales in that curious, twilight world of academic mythology.

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