Shadow
['ʃædəʊ] or ['ʃædo]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) refuge from danger or observation; 'he felt secure in his father's shadow'.
(noun.) a premonition of something adverse; 'a shadow over his happiness'.
(noun.) an inseparable companion; 'the poor child was his mother's shadow'.
(noun.) a dominating and pervasive presence; 'he received little recognition working in the shadow of his father'.
(noun.) shade within clear boundaries.
(verb.) follow, usually without the person's knowledge; 'The police are shadowing her'.
(verb.) make appear small by comparison; 'This year's debt dwarfs that of last year'.
(verb.) cast a shadow over.
欧内斯特整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) Shade within defined limits; obscurity or deprivation of light, apparent on a surface, and representing the form of the body which intercepts the rays of light; as, the shadow of a man, of a tree, or of a tower. See the Note under Shade, n., 1.
(n.) Darkness; shade; obscurity.
(n.) A shaded place; shelter; protection; security.
(n.) A reflected image, as in a mirror or in water.
(n.) That which follows or attends a person or thing like a shadow; an inseparable companion; hence, an obsequious follower.
(n.) A spirit; a ghost; a shade; a phantom.
(n.) An imperfect and faint representation; adumbration; indistinct image; dim bodying forth; hence, mystical representation; type.
(n.) A small degree; a shade.
(n.) An uninvited guest coming with one who is invited.
(n.) To cut off light from; to put in shade; to shade; to throw a shadow upon; to overspead with obscurity.
(n.) To conceal; to hide; to screen.
(n.) To protect; to shelter from danger; to shroud.
(n.) To mark with gradations of light or color; to shade.
(n.) To represent faintly or imperfectly; to adumbrate; hence, to represent typically.
(n.) To cloud; to darken; to cast a gloom over.
(n.) To attend as closely as a shadow; to follow and watch closely, especially in a secret or unobserved manner; as, a detective shadows a criminal.
校對:露辛达
同義詞及近義詞：
n. [1]. Shade.[2]. Darkness, obscurity, gloom.[3]. Shelter, cover, protection, security.[4]. Type, image, adumbration, representation.
v. a. [1]. Shade.[2]. Darken, obscure, cloud.[3]. Typify, SHADOW FORTH, adumbrate.
杰弗里整理
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Umbration, reflection, image, sham, unsubstantiality, immaterial, phantom,attendant
ANT:Body, substance, materiality, form, principal
校對:伊薇特
解釋/意思:
n. shade caused by an object: darkness: shelter: security: favour: the dark part of a picture: an inseparable companion: a mystical representation: faint appearance: a ghost spirit: something only in appearance.—v.t to shade: to cloud or darken: to shade as a painting: to represent faintly: to hide conceal: (coll.) to attend like a shadow watch continuously and carefully.—ns. Shad′ow-fig′ure a silhouette; Shad′owiness the state of being shadowy or unsubstantial; Shad′owing shading: gradation of light and colour.—adj. Shad′owless.—n. Shad′ow-stitch in lace-making a very delicate kind of ladder-stitch used in fine open-work.—adj. Shad′owy full of shadow: dark: obscure: typical: unsubstantial: (rare) indulging in fancies.—Shadow of death approach of death: terrible disaster.
編輯:马克斯
例句/造句/用法:
- The world of sense is still depreciated and identified with opinion, though admitted to be a shadow of the true. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Her hands lay on the paddle like slumber, she only wanted to see him, like a crystal shadow, to feel his essential presence. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- While I was reading a shadow fell across the paper. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Their eyes glittered through their tangle of hair, their naked nostrils were full of shadow. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- The face of the hostess darkened with some shadow of perplexity, as she replied: 'Gaffer has never been where you have been. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Weary Hannah slept on, and no one but the sisters saw the pale shadow which seemed to fall upon the little bed. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- After a prolonged pause, he again asked, Is the shadow _quite_ gone? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- He stood in front of the fire, his long arms hanging by his sides, his cheeks, stubble-shadowed below the cheekbones, hollow in the firelight. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- In the seclusion of their monasteries, they speculated on the mysterious powers of Nature, then partially revealed to them, and shadowed forth images of their possible applications. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- Our lives, we see with a growing certitude, are fretted and shadowed and spoilt because there is as yet no worldwide law, no certain justice. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- As yet, little Dora was quite unconscious of my desperate firmness, otherwise than as my letters darkly shadowed it forth. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- The Professor conquered, but I cannot say that the laurels of this victory shadowed gracefully his temples. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- This immediately roused a poignant pity and allegiance in Gerald's heart, always shadowed by contempt and by unadmitted enmity. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Have you shadowed her? 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- It was as if from some aerial belfry, high up above the stir and jar of the earth, there was a bell continually tolling, 'All are shadows! 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- It threw a livid, unnatural circle upon the floor, while in the shadows beyond we saw the vague loom of two figures which crouched against the wall. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- The shadows were deepening, darkness was settling in. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- He forced back the gathering shadows of death, as he forced his clenched right hand to remain clenched, and to cover his wound. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- They came down the last two hundred yards, moving carefully from tree to tree in the shadows and now, through the last pines of the steep hillside, the bridge was only fifty yards away. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- The sun was low, and tall trees sent their shadows across the grassy walks where Mary was moving without bonnet or parasol. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Shadows, dark and heavy, struck again and again across the place where the heart of the moon had been, obliterating it altogether. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
手打:波莉