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黄昏たそがれ (tasogare)

dusk

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黄昏 (たそがれ, tasogare) is a bonus vocabulary word meaning “dusk”.

Kanji in this word

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私わたしはたそがれの海うみが大好だいすきです

I love the sea at dusk.

われわれの文明ぶんめいの黄昏たそがれに。

We find ourselves in the twilight of our civilization.

「四六時中」の語源は、四時(早晨・午時・晡時・黄昏)と六時をあわせたもの。

The word 'shirokujichu' (meaning all the time) is derived from the four times of the day known as 'shiji' (early morning, noon, late afternoon and dusk) in combination with the six times of the day known as 'rokuji.'

というわけで、ひんやりした黄昏の下、ぼくらは死に向かって車を走らせていた。

So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.

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