false dawn

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A thin ambient light which precedes true dawn, typically by around an hour, in certain parts of the world.
    — The moon was low down, and there was just the glimmer of the false dawn that comes about an hour before the real one.
  2. Something engendering premature hope; a promising sign which in fact leads to nothing. figuratively
    — As Congo nears the 50th anniversary of its independence from Belgium on June 30th, Mr Chebeya’s murky death suggests that 2006 was a false dawn.

词形变化

false dawns plural

词源

From false + dawn, calque of Arabic صُبْح كَاذِب (ṣubḥ kāḏib).
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