pre-dawn

pre-dawn — 形容詞

1. happening or taking place in the dark hours just before the sun rises above the

1.形容詞B1
釋義

黎明前的

日出前發生的

happening or taking place in the dark hours just before the sun rises above the horizon.

例句

The farmers began their pre-dawn milking before the roosters crowed.

農民在公雞啼叫之前就開始了黎明前的擠奶工作。

A pre-dawn fog covered the valley, hiding the river from view.

一層黎明前的薄霧籠罩了山谷，讓人看不見河流。

attributive: pre-dawn + noun (fog)

常見搭配
  • pre-dawn hours
  • pre-dawn raid
  • pre-dawn sky
  • pre-dawn light
  • pre-dawn flight
同義詞
  • early-morning

    less specific; can refer to any time early in the morning, not only the period before sunrise

反義詞
  • post-dawn

    referring to the period after sunrise; much less common

  • daytime

    the full period of daylight, not limited to the early hours

文法句型

pre-dawn + noun

用法筆記

Attributive only — pre-dawn always comes directly before the noun it describes (a pre-dawn raid, not ✱the raid was pre-dawn). Often hyphenated, though the closed form predawn is also common in American English.

常見錯誤

The sky was pre-dawn when we left.
We left in the pre-dawn darkness.
pre-dawn is an attributive adjective and cannot be used after a linking verb.

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常用片語

  • in the pre-dawn hours
  • during a pre-dawn raid

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