词汇 | dawn upon |
释义 | Phr V dawn upon dawns, dawning, dawned dawn on/upon sb if a fact dawns on you, you realize or understand something after a period of time when you did not realize or understand itThen it dawned on me that my exams were only 2 weeks away.It was when I saw them talking at Michelle's party that the truth suddenly dawned on me. ! Dawn upon is more formal than dawn on and is mostly used in writing. dawn on/upon sb if something dawns on you, you realize it for the first timeit dawns on sb (that) It suddenly dawned on Steve that he'd been making a complete fool of himself. Then it dawned on me that I was totally wasting my time in this job.sth dawns on sb The size of the task in front of us was slowly dawning on me.■ SIMILAR TO: strike (redirected from dawn upon) dawn (up)on (one)To occur to one. Once I pulled up to the bank, it dawned on me that I had forgotten my wallet. Did it just dawn on you that throwing the ball in the house might be a bad idea, or did you have that realization before breaking mom's vase? dawn (up)on someoneFig. [for a fact] to become apparent to someone; [for something] to be suddenly realized by someone. (Upon is formal and less commonly used than on.) Then it dawned upon me that I was actually going to have the job. On the way home, it dawned on me that I had never returned your call, so when I got home I called immediately. dawn onAlso, dawn upon. Become evident or understood, as in It finally dawned on him that he was expected to call them, or Around noon it dawned upon me that I had never eaten breakfast. This expression transfers the beginning of daylight to the beginning of a thought process. Harriet Beecher Stowe had it in Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852): "The idea that they had either feelings or rights had never dawned upon her." [Mid-1800s] dawn onor dawn uponv. To begin to be perceived or understood by someone; become apparent to someone: It dawned on me that I had forgotten to pick up some milk. A possible motive for the crime dawned upon the detective. |
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