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工作学习 / English / word of the day, crepuscular \kri-PUS-kyuh-lur\, adjective:
1. Pertaining to twilight; glimmering; hence, imperfectly clear or luminous.
2. (Zoology) Flying in the twilight or evening, or before sunrise;-- said certain birds and insects.
A faint crepuscular light extending beyond the cusps of the planet.
--G. F. Chambers, Astronomy
I saw a large brown insect, a crepuscular hawkmoth, quivering as it tried to plunge into the illusory depths of the mirror.
--Andrei Makine, Dreams of My Russian Summers
The crepuscular realm of the writer's own reveries.
--Henry James, Hawthorne
This semihistorical and crepuscular period.
--Sir G. C. Lewis
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