dawn on

英 [dɔːn ɒn]

美 [dɔːn ɑːn]

被领悟; 被理解; 被想到

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 被领悟;被理解;被想到
  If a fact or ideadawns onyou, you realize it.
  1. It gradually dawned upon me that I still had talent and ought to run again...
     我渐渐明白了自己还有才能，应该再次参加竞选。
  2. Then the chilling truth dawned on Captain Gary Snavely.
     接着加里·斯内夫利船长意识到了这个令人不寒而栗的事实。

双语例句

• He is back at his home at the North Pole before dawn on Christmas morning, tired but very happy after his very speedy sweep around the world.
  在圣诞节清晨破晓之前，他回到在北极的家里。
• Only gradually did it dawn on us that no supplies ever came down the road.
  后来我们才恍然大悟，原来从来没有补给物资顺这条路运送下来过。
• Just before dawn on September 1, island children carry their households 'wreaths down to the shore, the old year's wreaths and the new ones, and they throw the old ones out to sea.
  9月1日黎明前，岛上的孩子们把家里的新旧花环都拿到海边。
• The truth began to dawn on him.
  他开始明白那个道理。
• Yes, for some couch potatoes, the reality and fears may dawn on them gradually.
  的确，对于一些电视迷来说，将会渐渐理解现实的残酷。
• Only by degrees did it dawn on him.
  他是慢慢才明白的。
• At dawn on the wedding day, the bride puts on new dothes, wears a pair of red shoes and waits for the so called good luck woman to dress her hair in the style of a married woman.
  在婚礼当天的清晨，新娘会穿上新妆，头戴凤冠，脚穿红婚鞋，等待喜婆为她盘头。
• Shortly before dawn on Sunday, Georgia's Interior Ministry said that Russian bombers had begun striking military facilities adjacent to the civilian airport at Tbilisi.
  不久，破晓前，对周日，格鲁吉亚的内政部说，俄罗斯轰炸机已开始引人注目的军事设施附近的民用机场在第比利斯。
• Then Saigon's method of doing battle began to dawn on us.
  不久，西贡的作战手法渐渐显露出来。
• It happened before dawn on the day that Vertamae was to have put her then-8-year-old grandson on a flight to Chicago where his father would have been waiting.
  意外发生在黎明时分，那天维塔美本来正准备把8岁大的奥斯卡送上前往芝加哥的飞机，他父亲本来是要去接机的。