twilight

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twi·light /ˈtwaɪlaɪt/ noun

1 [uncountableU]DNLIGHT the small amount of light in the sky as the day ends 暮色，黄昏的天色

in the twilight

The end of the cigarette glowed in the twilight.

烟头在暮色中发着幽幽的红光。

2 [uncountableU]TMC the time when day is just starting to become night 黄昏时分，薄暮时分 SYN dusk

at twilight

romantic walks along the beach at twilight

黄昏时分浪漫的海边漫步

3 [singular]OLD/NOT YOUNG the period just before the end of the most active part of someone’s life 〔人生的〕暮年时期

twilight of

in the twilight of her acting career

她演艺生涯的晚期

Depression in the twilight years (=the last years of your life) is usually related to illness.

晚年的精神抑郁通常与疾病有关。

4 twilight world literarySTRANGE a strange situation involving mystery, dishonesty etc 朦胧世界；阴暗世界

twilight world of

the twilight world of espionage

神秘的间谍世界

Examples from the Corpus

twilight world• The inescapable presence of doubt is a constant reminder of our responsibility to truth in a twilight world of truth and half-truth.• Theirs was a twilight world of hushed voices, concealed books and illegal exhibitions.• ACCORDING to acquaintances who move in the twilight world of Private Eye, the satirical magazine is hoping for a Conservative victory.• Terri, in the twilight world of the zombie, was writing the three words over and over again.• I came to realize that the twilight world actually existed unseen, but in parallel, with everyone else's world.• the twilight world of New York punk clubs

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twilight• The inescapable presence of doubt is a constant reminder of our responsibility to truth in a twilight world of truth and half-truth.• Theirs was a twilight world of hushed voices, concealed books and illegal exhibitions.• It was almost twilight when they tied up at the Angle Inlet boatyard.• The sun is never visible; it is eternal twilight.• Why demand attention now, when the Bulls are in what should be a glorious twilight?• These women dwelt in a land where all was dim and shrouded in twilight.• In the twilight and without my glasses, I couldn't really tell.• The twilight sky was lavender and dark enough that Venus was out, hung above a freshly minted sickle moon.• We stayed outside till twilight.

in the twilight• Both looked eerie in the twilight.• The hermeneutics of the cross ought to lead us to quite different theological conclusions about living faithfully in the twilight of modernity.• The end glowed in the twilight.• It had come again this night, glazing over the hills in the twilight.• The other is in the twilight of a memorable run.• She could barely make out the figure of a man in the twilight.• I wish I could stay in the twilight and never have to move, never have to talk to anyone.• I know she likes the blossoms of the apple trees in the twilight, but they are long gone.• It is because at this time the warning light is more easily visible in the twilight than in the daylight.

twilight of• the twilight of the Victorian age

Origin twilight

(1400-1500) twi- “two, twice” (from Old English) + light

twi·light noun

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