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IELTS BNC: 9876 COCA: 6896

twilight

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Related topics: Nature, Chronology
twi·light /ˈtwaɪlaɪt/ ●○○ noun  
1  [uncountableU]DNLIGHT the small amount of light in the sky as the day ends 暮色，黄昏的天色
in the twilight
 The end of the cigarette glowed in the twilight.
烟头在暮色中发着幽幽的红光。
2  [uncountableU]TMC the time when day is just starting to become night 黄昏时分，薄暮时分 SYN dusk
at twilight
 romantic walks along the beach at twilight
黄昏时分浪漫的海边漫步
3  [singular]OLD/NOT YOUNG the period just before the end of the most active part of someone’s life 〔人生的〕暮年时期
twilight of
 in the twilight of her acting career
她演艺生涯的晚期
 Depression in the twilight years (=the last years of your life) is usually related to illness.
晚年的精神抑郁通常与疾病有关。
4  twilight world literarySTRANGE a strange situation involving mystery, dishonesty etc 朦胧世界；阴暗世界
twilight world of
 the twilight world of espionage
神秘的间谍世界
Examples from the Corpus
twilight world• The inescapable presence of doubt is a constant reminder of our responsibility to truth in a twilight world of truth and half-truth.• Theirs was a twilight world of hushed voices, concealed books and illegal exhibitions.• ACCORDING to acquaintances who move in the twilight world of Private Eye, the satirical magazine is hoping for a Conservative victory.• Terri, in the twilight world of the zombie, was writing the three words over and over again.• I came to realize that the twilight world actually existed unseen, but in parallel, with everyone else's world.• the twilight world of New York punk clubs
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twilight• The inescapable presence of doubt is a constant reminder of our responsibility to truth in a twilight world of truth and half-truth.• Theirs was a twilight world of hushed voices, concealed books and illegal exhibitions.• It was almost twilight when they tied up at the Angle Inlet boatyard.• The sun is never visible; it is eternal twilight.• Why demand attention now, when the Bulls are in what should be a glorious twilight?• These women dwelt in a land where all was dim and shrouded in twilight.• In the twilight and without my glasses, I couldn't really tell.• The twilight sky was lavender and dark enough that Venus was out, hung above a freshly minted sickle moon.• We stayed outside till twilight.
in the twilight• Both looked eerie in the twilight.• The hermeneutics of the cross ought to lead us to quite different theological conclusions about living faithfully in the twilight of modernity.• The end glowed in the twilight.• It had come again this night, glazing over the hills in the twilight.• The other is in the twilight of a memorable run.• She could barely make out the figure of a man in the twilight.• I wish I could stay in the twilight and never have to move, never have to talk to anyone.• I know she likes the blossoms of the apple trees in the twilight, but they are long gone.• It is because at this time the warning light is more easily visible in the twilight than in the daylight.
twilight of• the twilight of the Victorian age
Origin twilight
(1400-1500) twi- “two, twice” (from Old English) + light
twi·light noun
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IELTS BNC: 9876 COCA: 6896
twilight

noun

ADJECTIVE | TWILIGHT + NOUN | PREPOSITION | PHRASES ADJECTIVE➤gathering漸濃的暮色TWILIGHT + NOUN➤sky暮色中的天空◇They gazed up at the twilight sky.他們凝視着暮色中的天空。➤hour (often figurative) 凌晨；黃昏時分◇in the twilight hour before dawn天亮前微明時分◇He had the courage to spend his twilight hours acknowledging his misdeeds.他有勇氣在暮年承認了自己的種種惡劣行徑。➤world (figurative) 朦朧世界◇the twilight world of the occult神秘學的朦朧世界➤zone (figurative) 過渡區域◇the twilight zone between living and merely existing生活和生存之間的模糊地帶➤years (figurative) 暮年◇a forgotten man who spent his twilight years alone在垂暮之年孤獨生活的被遺忘的老人PREPOSITION➤at twilight, in the twilight, into the twilight黃昏時；在暮色中；進入暮色中◇She stared into the gathering twilight.她凝視着漸濃的暮色。PHRASES➤in the twilight of your career, life, etc.在事業的沒落期、在生命的晚期等
IELTS BNC: 9876 COCA: 6896
twilight noun
⇨ night 2
IELTS BNC: 9876 COCA: 6896

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