明るくなりはじめて、物が次第に見えるようになった。

bright; colourful; cheerful; familiar (with); knowledgeable (about); fair (e.g. politics); clean

to become; to get; to grow; to be; to reach; to attain; to result in; to prove to be; to consist of; to be composed of; to succeed; to be complete; to change into; to be exchanged for; to play a role; to be promoted; to do ...

thing; object; article; stuff; substance; one's things; possessions; property; belongings; things; something; anything; everything; nothing; quality; reason; the way of things; used to emphasize emotion, judgment, etc.; used to indicate a common occurrence in the past (after a verb in past tense); used to indicate a general tendency; used to indicate something that should happen; item classified as ...; item related to ...; work of ...; cause of ...; cause for ...; somehow; somewhat; for some reason; really; truly

indicates sentence subject (occasionally object); indicates possessive (esp. in literary expressions); but; however; still; and

gradually (progress into a state); in sequence; in order; in turn

to have an audience; to meet; to see; to face (an enemy); to confront; to serve (esp. as one's wife)

appearing ...; looking ...; way to ...; method of ...ing; form; style; design; like; similar to; thing (thought or spoken)

at (place, time); in; on; during; to (direction, state); toward; into; for (purpose); because of (reason); for; with; by; from; as (i.e. in the role of); per; in; for; a (e.g. "once a month"); and; in addition to; if; although