Overshadow
[əʊvə'ʃædəʊ] or ['ovɚ'ʃædo]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) cast a shadow upon; 'The tall tree overshadowed the house'.
(verb.) be greater in significance than; 'the tragedy overshadowed the couple's happiness'.
整理:蒂娜--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To throw a shadow, or shade, over; to darken; to obscure.
(v. t.) Fig.: To cover with a superior influence.
丹尼斯校對
解釋/意思:
v.t. to throw a shadow over: to shelter or protect.
克莱尔手打
例句/造句/用法:
- From it sprang that tree of Christianity whose broad arms overshadow so many distant lands to-day. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Then arose Thebes, a city not fifty miles from Athens, to overshadow Sparta. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- In her old age she saw Rome built; she saw it overshadow the world with its power; she saw it perish. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- They were warlike little nations and defied, in those days, governments that overshadow them now as mountains overshadow molehills. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Gnarled and twisted trees spring from the old walls every where, and beautify and overshadow the gray battlements with a wild luxuriance of foliage. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The shade was screwed down so as to overshadow her face. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- A great square house, with a heavy portico darkening the principal windows, as its master's heavy brows overshadowed his eyes. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- It was overshadowed by a dome so mighty that its own height was snubbed. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- His chin dropped upon his hand, and his white hair overshadowed his face: Have you spoken to Lucie? 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- The period of which I write was an overshadowed one in British history, and especially in the history of the northern provinces. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- For a time this new acquirement seems to have overshadowed their earlier achievement of drawing, and possibly it checked the use of gesture. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Oh, well, no wonder mine were overshadowed by Beaufort's, said Archer irritably. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- A landing-place overshadowed by a willow, and a pleasure-boat lying moored there among some stakes, caught his eye as he passed along. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- There was a large beech-tree overshadowing the place, and the small, sharp, triangular beech-nuts lay scattered thickly on the ground. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- I would say: I saw there a country which has no overshadowing Mother Church, and yet the people survive. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
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