sunset的意思|sunset的解释-里氏词典

sunset ['sʌn`sɛt]

n. 日落, 晚年

sunset

[ noun ]

the time in the evening at which the sun begins to fall below the horizon

<noun.time>

atmospheric phenomena accompanying the daily disappearance of the sun

<noun.phenomenon>

the daily event of the sun sinking below the horizon

<noun.event>

[ adj ]

of a declining industry or technology

<adj.all>

sunset industries

providing for termination

<adj.all>

a program with a sunset provision

Sunset \Sun"set"\, Sunsetting \Sun"set`ting\, n.
1. The descent of the sun below the horizon; also, the time
when the sun sets; evening. Also used figuratively.

'T is the sunset of life gives me mystical lore.
--Campbell.

2. Hence, the region where the sun sets; the west.

{Sunset shell} (Zo["o]l.), a West Indian marine bivalve
({Tellina radiata}) having a smooth shell marked with
radiating bands of varied colors resembling those seen at
sunset or before sunrise; -- called also {rising sun}.

The Jewish holiday Passover concludes at sunset.
Negotiations began at daybreak and continued until sunset.
"How do you compete on canvas with a Montana sunset or wind-swept wheat fields with the shading and the shadows and shapes?
After 5 p.m. its time for more maneuvers, and then a stop for dinner sometime after the eagerly awaited sunset.
But that was published in 1952, when the island was a British protectorate. Some 30 years later I sat on the balcony of the club and watched the dhows drift by at sunset.
Businessmen may find themselves chatting to the prime minister across the cabinet table, but there will be no places for the unions. Mr Major is not talking about subsidies for sunset industries.
Several thousand people applauded as the 21-foot open boat, named Papyrela for the Greek word for papyrus and made of yellow papyrus stems lashed together with rope, slipped away from the dockside at sunset.
There are several operators who will fly you around both the Rock and the Olgas at sunset for a few dollars more.
The California gray whales swam off into the sunset Wednesday on what was hoped would be a long journey to their winter home off Baja California.
While awaiting sunset over the sea, they are entertained by offbeat performances, such as housecats jumping through flaming hoops or a man who balances a bicycle on his nose.
Astronauts also will photograph the sky immediately after sunset and after sunrise to measure the brightness of Earth's atmosphere at those times.
Then, threading the alpine valleys to the St. Gotthard, it would pick up speed below the high sunset for the long run downhill in the dusk to Lugano, and to my hard-won hotel room in Milan.
The mosquito bites only between sunset and dawn.
'I'm riding off into the sunset and will probably turn up as a belly dancer in Libya,' he adds. Although his pay-off is probably in the Pounds 200,000 bracket, TSW's greatest tribute is not trying to replace him.
"You don't want a women to think she can walk into the sunset eating a lot of calcium," he said. "She won't be protected." The study was conducted on 301 women with low dietary calcium intake.
Four Canadian and nine Soviet skiers set off Thursday under a hazy, primrose-colored Arctic sunset to cross the North Pole and make a statement about East-West cooperation.
'In the US, oil is seen as a sunset industry.
In a country with annualised inflation running at close to 1,000 per cent, a rate-per-mile agreed at breakfast-time is likely to look meagre by sunset. For the first-time tourist in Rio - a dwindling species - things can be bewildering.
It exploded while the market was filled with shoppers on the seventh day of Islam's holy month of Ramadan, when devout Moslems fast from sunrise to sunset.
The planet, the familiar "star" of the morning or evening, appears just before dawn or just after sunset as a brilliant, unblinking point of light.
Rosh Hashana marks the beginning of a period of self-examination and repentance that ends with the fast day of Yom Kippur that begins at sunset Sept. 28.
By the time he starts work in the fields, he will have been up since 5 in the morning and he will not rest until sunset. Gathering crops is hard work for a nine-year-old boy, especially after a morning of chores and schoolwork.
'The rise in tensions could lead to riots,' he adds. By sunset, most of the workers are back from their jobs.
Japan, Canada and the U.S. multinationals also are jointly pressing the Bush administration to accept a "sunset" provision in the GATT code, which would require member countries to terminate anti-dumping duties after a specific period of time.
It was sunset, and light winds wisped through the blue-collar neighborhood on the west side of sagging Interstate 880 in Oakland.
The dawn of peace in the 8-year-old Iran-Iraq war is likely to be a sunset for the hopes of rebels in each country, diplomats say.
'We could sunset the whole thing three years ahead of schedule,' he said. Mr Casey expects his agency will receive another 50 failed thrifts by the end of next September, the deadline for failed institutions to be handled by the RTC.
Above the Arctic Circle, Sunday's sunset was the last glimpse of the sun for 65 days.
The broadcasts reminded people that a curfew began at 6 p.m. Although the curfew has been widely ignored, the crowd began slowly to disperse after sunset.
Tamraz, 48, checked into the seaside west Beirut Summerland Hotel shortly before sunset.

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