dawn1/dɔn; dɔːn/n [U] 1 the time of day when light first appears 黎明﹐拂晓: at dawn We were up at dawn. 我们天一亮就起床了。As dawn broke (=it started to get light) the rain stopped. 破晓时分雨停了。2 the dawn of civilization/time etc the time when something began or first appeared 文明/时间等的开端
dawn2v [I] if day or morning dawns, it begins 天亮﹐破晓: The morning dawned fresh and clear. 清晨空气清新﹐晴空万里。dawn on sbphr v if a fact dawns on you, you realize it for the first time 使开始明白,使开始领悟: It dawned on me that Jo had been right all along. 我开始明白乔一直都是对的。