生活中有很多令人捉摸不透的人和事，

不过也有很多时候因为某些人的一句话，

或者一个场景，

我们便能恍然大悟，豁然开朗！

这样的感觉简直是太美妙了！

那么你知道"恍然大悟"用英语怎么说？

大家来和精华一起来学习下吧。

●01.   the penny drops

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the penny drops的意思是： 恍然大悟，豁然开朗

She looked confused for a moment, then suddenly the penny dropped.

她一开始看起来有些不解，后来恍然大悟。

When Jakc drew the diagram, the penny dropped, and everything became clear to me.

当jack画图表时，我恍然大悟，对我来说一切都变得清晰。

●02.   it hit me

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恍然大悟；突然明白

【解释】

When a feeling or an idea hits you,

it suddenly affects you or comes into your mind. 使突然意识到

【例句】

It hit me that I had a choice.

我突然意识到我可以有所选择。

I wondered all day long how to solve this problem and it suddenly hit me — I had to do it the other way around.

我整天都在想如何解决这个问题，

突然间我恍然大悟—我必须反过来做才行。  

●03.  it/sth clicks/clicked with sb that...

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恍然大悟

【解释】

click v.发出咔嚓声；(用鼠标)点击

When you suddenly understand something,

you can say that it clicks.

【例句】

When I saw the television report, it all clicked.

当我看到电视报道时，

一下就恍然大悟了。

It finally clicked with me ，

that I should start working out.

最终我突然意识到，我要开始锻炼了。

The teacher’s explanation of sine and cosine really clicked with me—I think I finally understand it now.

老师对sin和cos的讲解让我恍然大悟，

我现在终于明白了。

●04.  dawn on sb (that…)

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意思是：使开始明白；使渐渐领悟；

使开始理解。

Dawn 作名词时，可以作可数名词和不可数名词，意为”拂晓，破晓”等，

相当于 daybreak 或 sunrise 等；

常见的搭配有 at dawn（在黎明时分），

the dawn of sth（什么的曙光、开端或萌芽），

和 from dawn to dusk（从早到晚）等，例如：

She slept fitfully throughout the night and arose before dawn.

她整夜断断续续地睡觉，黎明前就起床了。

We woke at dawn.

我们黎明醒来。

We worked from dawn to dusk, seven days a week.

我们一周工作七天，从早到晚。

dawn on sb 意为“使开始明白；使渐渐领悟；使开始理解”，后面常接 that 从句，而且句中主语常常是形式主语 it，例如：

The solution finally dawned on him.

他终于明白了解决办法。

It began to dawn on her that she was lost.

她开始意识到她迷路了。