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dusk

noun
🔊/dʌsk/
🔊/dʌsk/
 [uncountable]
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  1. the time of day when the light has almost gone, but it is not yet dark黄昏；傍晚
    • at dusk The street lights go on at dusk.街灯在黄昏时分亮起来。🔊🔊
    • I’ve been on the go from dawn to dusk.从黎明到黄昏我一直在旅途中。
    • She arrived home as dusk was falling.傍晚时分，她回到家。
    • The lamps twinkled in the gathering dusk.灯光在渐浓的夜色中闪烁。
    compare dawn, twilightTopics Timec1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • gathering
    dusk + verb
    • approach
    • fall
    • settle
    • …
    preposition
    • after dusk
    • at dusk
    • before dusk
    • …
    phrases
    • from dawn to dusk
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    Word OriginOld English dox ‘dark, swarthy’ and doxian ‘darken in colour’, of Germanic origin; related to Old High German tusin ‘darkish’; compare with dun. The noun dates from the early 17th cent. The change in form from -x to -sk occurred in Middle English.