dawn on
phrasal verbdawn on somebody
- [no passive]
if something dawns on you, you begin to realize it for the first time 使开始明白;使渐渐领悟;使开始理解 - it dawns on somebody that…
Suddenly it dawned on me that they couldn't possibly have met before. 我突然明白他们以前不可能见过面。
Extra ExamplesIt slowly dawned on me that he might have been mistaken. 我慢慢明白他可能是弄错了。 It was beginning to dawn on her that she had been fooled. 她开始明白自己被骗了。
- it dawns on somebody that…