dusk

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /dʌsk/    美 /dʌsk/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The time after the sun has set but when the sky is still lit by sunlight; the evening twilight period. countable,uncountable
    — Witnessing the dusk gives a feeling of solace.
  2. A darkish colour. countable,uncountable
    — Whose dusk set off the whiteness of the skin.
  3. The condition of being dusky; duskiness countable,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To begin to lose light or whiteness; to grow dusk. intransitive
    — I see the air benighted And all the dusking dales, And lamps in England lighted,
  2. To make dusk. transitive
    — After the sun is up, that shadow which dusketh the light of the Moone must needs be under the earth.
形容词 adj.
  1. Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.
    — A pathless desert, dusk with horrid shades.

词形变化

dusker comparative duskest superlative dusks plural dusks present,singular,third-person dusking participle,present dusked participle,past dusked past

词汇关系

近义词
nightfall smokefall vespers cockshut crepusculum dark dimmity duckish dusk mirkning night sun sundown sunset
反义词
dawn daybreak
下位词
astronomical dusk civil dusk nautical dusk
衍生词
adusk duskdarter dusk-flat duskhawk duskish duskless dusklight duskly duskness dusktime predusk
相关词
early morning first light postdawn morning midday afternoon midnight in .

词源

词源 1
From Middle English dosk, dusk(e) (“dusky”, adj.), from Old English dox (“dark, swarthy”), from Proto-Germanic *duskaz (“dark, smoky”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwes-, related to *dʰewh₂- (“smoke, mist, haze”). Cognate to Latin fuscus (“dark, dusky”), Sanskrit धूसर (dhūsara, “dust-colored”), Old Irish donn (“dark”). Related to dye, dust and dun (see these for more).
词源 2
From Middle English dusken, from Old English doxian.
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