dusk: [OE] In Anglo-Saxon times, dusk was an adjective meaning ‘dark in colour’ (a sense preserved today in the derived adjective dusky [16]). Its modern noun use ‘twilight’ is not recorded until as recently as the early 17th century. The Old English form of the word was dox, which was descended from the same ultimate Indo-European ancestor as Latin fuscus ‘dark’ (source of English obfuscate [16]). => dun, obfuscale
dusk (n.)
c. 1200, dosk "obscure, to become dark," perhaps from Old English dox "dark-haired, dark from the absence of light" (cognate with Swedish duska "be misty," Latin fuscus "dark," Sanskrit dhusarah "dust-colored;" also compare Old English dosan "chestnut-brown," Old High German tusin "pale yellow") with transposition of -k- and -s-, perhaps via a Northumbrian variant (compare colloquial ax for ask). But OED notes that "few of our words in -sk are of OE origin." A color word originally; the sense of "twilight" is recorded from 1620s.
雙語例句
1. The lighthouse beam was quite distinct in the gathering dusk.
燈塔的光束在漸濃的暮色中清晰可見。
來自柯林斯例句
2. Dusk was deepening as they drove back to the lights of Shillingham.
他們驅(qū)車返回華燈初上的希靈漢姆時(shí)，暮色漸濃。
來自柯林斯例句
3. As the dusk shaded into night, we drove slowly through narrow alleys.
夜幕漸漸降臨，我們驅(qū)車在狹窄的胡同里緩慢前行。
來自柯林斯例句
4. At dusk we pitched camp in the middle of nowhere.
黃昏時(shí)，我們?cè)诿Ｃ；囊爸性鸂I(yíng)。
來自柯林斯例句
5. By dusk we were dog-tired and heading for home.