dusk /ˈdʌsk/
薄暮,傍晚,黃昏(a.)微暗的(vt.)(vi.)(使)微暗
Dusk a. Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky.
A pathless desert, dusk with horrid shades. --Milton.
Dusk, n.
1. Imperfect obscurity; a middle degree between light and darkness; twilight; as, the dusk of the evening.
2. A darkish color.
Whose duck set off the whiteness of the skin. --Dryden.
Dusk, v. t. To make dusk. [Archaic]
After the sun is up, that shadow which dusketh the light of the moon must needs be under the earth.
Dusk, v. i. To grow dusk. [R.]
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dusk
n : the time of day immediately following sunset; "he loved the
twilight"; "they finished before the fall of night" [syn:
twilight, gloaming, nightfall, evenfall, fall,
crepuscule, crepuscle]