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黎明,拂晓;开始,发端破晓;开始,初现;渐被理解或感知

资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Dawn \Dawn\, n.
   1. The break of day; the first appearance of light in the
      morning; show of approaching sunrise.

            And oft at dawn, deep noon, or falling eve.
                                                  --Thomson.

            No sun, no moon, no morn, no noon, No dawn, no dusk,
            no proper time of day.                --Hood.

   2. First opening or expansion; first appearance; beginning;
      rise. ``The dawn of time.'' --Thomson.

            These tender circumstances diffuse a dawn of
            serenity over the soul.               --Pope.

Dawn \Dawn\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Dawned}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Dawning}.] [OE. dawnen, dawen, dagen, daien, AS. dagian to
   become day, to dawn, fr. d[ae]g day; akin to D. dagen, G.
   tagen, Icel. daga, Dan. dages, Sw. dagas. See {Day}.
   [root]71.]
   1. To begin to grow light in the morning; to grow light; to
      break, or begin to appear; as, the day dawns; the morning
      dawns.

            In the end of the Sabbath, as it began to dawn
            toward the first day of the week, came Mary
            Magdalene . . . to see the sepulcher. --Matt.
                                                  xxviii. 1.

   2. To began to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand.
      ``In dawning youth.'' --Dryden.

            When life awakes, and dawns at every line. --Pope.

            Dawn on our darkness and lend us thine aid. --Heber,

资料来源 : WordNet®

dawn
     n 1: the first light of day; "we got up before dawn"; "they
          talked until morning" [syn: {dawning}, {morning}, {aurora},
           {first light}, {daybreak}, {break of day}, {break of
          the day}, {dayspring}, {sunrise}, {sunup}, {cockcrow}]
          [ant: {sunset}]
     2: the earliest period; "the dawn of civilization"; "the
        morning of the world" [syn: {morning}]
     3: an opening time period; "it was the dawn of the Roman
        Empire"

dawn
     v 1: become clear or enter one's consciousness or emotions; "It
          dawned on him that she had betrayed him"; "she was
          penetrated with sorrow" [syn: {click}, {get through}, {come
          home}, {get across}, {sink in}, {penetrate}, {fall into
          place}]
     2: appear or develop; "The age of computers had dawned"
     3: become light; "It started to dawn, and we had to get up"