dawn on
phrasal verbdawn on somebody
- [no passive] if something dawns on you, you begin to realize it for the first time
使开始明白;使渐渐领悟;使开始理解 - it dawns on somebody that… Suddenly it dawned on me that they couldn't possibly have met before.
我突然明白他们以前不可能见过面。
- It slowly dawned on me that he might have been mistaken.
我慢慢明白他可能是弄错了。 - It was beginning to dawn on her that she had been fooled.
她开始明白自己被骗了。
- it dawns on somebody that… Suddenly it dawned on me that they couldn't possibly have met before.