Shadowy
['ʃædəʊɪ] or ['ʃædoi]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) lacking in substance; 'strange fancies of unreal and shadowy worlds'- W.A.Butler; 'dim shadowy forms'; 'a wraithlike column of smoke' .
埃莉诺校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Full of shade or shadows; causing shade or shadow.
(a.) Hence, dark; obscure; gloomy; dim.
(a.) Not brightly luminous; faintly light.
(a.) Faintly representative; hence, typical.
(a.) Unsubstantial; unreal; as, shadowy honor.
手打:斯坦
同義詞及近義詞：
a. [1]. Shady, umbrageous, dark, obscure, dim, murky, gloomy.[2]. Unreal, unsubstantial, impalpable, visionary, imaginary, spectral, ghostly.
編輯:维尔玛
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Dim, cloudy, obscure, dark, murky, gloomy, mysterious,[See JUST_and_HONEST]
杰西卡校對
例句/造句/用法:
- I wonder, he said to himself, pausing for a moment in the shadowy avenue,—I wonder if my uncle is still alive. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- After a long examination I discovered what it was--the shadowy soldiers were all Germans! 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Howbeit, it wore itself out in a shadowy corner, and then the dressmaker came forth, and washed her face, and made the tea. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- There was no shadowy picture of his footsteps, in the garden that I dreamed of walking in all night. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- I did not like to walk at this hour alone with Mr. Rochester in the shadowy orchard; but I could not find a reason to allege for leaving him. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- What he saw, meanwhile, with the help of the lamp, was the faded shadowy charm of a room unlike any room he had known. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- There was a shadowy unreal Ursula, a whole shadow-play of an unreal life. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Gradually the object of fear sank beneath the horizon, and to the last shot up shadowy beams into the otherwise radiant air. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Gerald moved in his slow, observant, glistening-attentive motion down between the tables and the people whose shadowy faces looked up as he passed. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- So far as theory and details of working are concerned, there are a good many people still in the same shadowy frame of mind as the old Aberdeen postmaster, of whom the story is told. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- We walked through the shadowy plantation in silence. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- All was shadowy with coming summer. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Her form is transparent; every object or person beyond her being seen in shadowy but distinct outline. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- Allan Woodcourt pauses to look after him and note all this, with a shadowy belief that he has seen the boy before. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- It dates back to the shadowy ages of tradition, and was the birthplace of gods renowned in Grecian mythology. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
整理:鲁道夫