dusk

noun

/dʌsk/

[uncountable]

词汇	dusk
释义	dusk noun /dʌsk/ /dʌsk/ [uncountable] 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.我从早到晚都在奔波。 She arrived home as dusk was falling.黄昏降临时，她回到了家。 The lamps twinkled in the gathering dusk.灯光在渐浓的夜色中闪烁。 compare dawn, twilightTopics Timec1 Collocations Dictionaryadjective gathering dusk + verb approach fall settle … preposition after dusk at dusk before dusk … phrases from dawn to dusk 词源Old 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.
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