the dawn of civilization/time etcBEGINNINGthe time when something began or first appeared 文明的开端/宇宙初开等 People have been falling in love since the dawn of time. 亘古以来就有爱情。
► see thesaurus at beginningthe dawn of civilization/time etc• Once, long ago, at the dawn of time, he had persuaded man to disobey in a garden.• Since the dawn of time, roughly a hundred billion human beings have walked the planet Earth.
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