overshadowing
英 [ˌəʊvəˈʃædəʊɪŋ]
美 [ˌoʊvərˈʃædoʊɪŋ]
v. 使显得逊色; 使黯然失色; 使扫兴; 使蒙上阴影; 掩盖; 遮蔽
overshadow的现在分词
现在分词:overshadowing
柯林斯词典
- VERB 给…蒙上阴影;使扫兴
If an unpleasant event or feelingovershadowssomething, it makes it less happy or enjoyable.- Fears for the President's safety could overshadow his peace-making mission...
对总统安全的担忧可能会给他的调解使命蒙上阴影。 - Her childhood was overshadowed by her mother's incarceration in a psychiatric hospital.
她的母亲被关在精神病院,这给她的童年蒙上了阴影。
- Fears for the President's safety could overshadow his peace-making mission...
- VERB 使黯然失色;使相形见绌;使显得无足轻重
If youare overshadowed bya person or thing, you are less successful, important, or impressive than they are.- Hester is overshadowed by her younger and more attractive sister.
赫斯特在她那年轻而且姿色更胜一筹的妹妹面前黯然失色。
- Hester is overshadowed by her younger and more attractive sister.
- VERB (楼房、树木、大型建筑物等)遮蔽,遮挡
If one building, tree, or large structureovershadowsanother, it stands near it, is much taller than it, and casts a shadow over it.- He also designed one of the Edinburgh University towers that overshadows George Square...
他还设计了爱丁堡大学一座投影于乔治广场的塔楼。 - She said stations should be in the open, near housing, not overshadowed by trees or walls.
她说车站应该建在住宅区附近的开阔地带,而不应为树木或墙壁所遮挡。
- He also designed one of the Edinburgh University towers that overshadows George Square...
双语例句
- The satisfied rate for the existing vegetation is 73.2%, and the rate for planting trees, background woods and overshadowing trees is up to 62.2%.
对公园的现在植被状况的满意率为73.2%,要求多种植乔木林、背景林、遮荫树的游客人数比例达到62.2%; - What is more, the writer of this thesis also tries to demonstrate the existence of the death complex through the analysis of the three stages in life cycle: encountering the death, confronting the death and overshadowing the death.
除此之外,作者期待通过分析死亡的三个阶段:遭遇死亡,面临死亡以及超越死亡,以证明作者死亡情结在作品中的体现。 - True to his words, the military disclosed that it had just conducted its first test flight of a new stealth fighter, the j-20 overshadowing a visit to Beijing by Robert Gates, the US defence secretary.
果然如他所言,中国军方透露刚刚完成新式隐形战斗机歼20的首次试飞,这个消息给美国国防部长罗伯特盖茨(robertgates)访华蒙上了阴影。 - The close election and uncertain prospects for negotiations over the impending budget crisis are overshadowing the performance of markets and more optimistic recent economic data.
两位对手旗鼓相当,加上围绕日益迫近的预算危机的谈判存在不确定前景,打压了市场表现,也令近期变得更为乐观的经济数据黯然失色。 - Having the world's most comprehensive collection could make it the default first choice for book buyers, overshadowing Amazon. com's claim to be the world's biggest bookstore.
拥有世界上最综合的藏书可能让它成为图书购买者们默认的首选,令亚马逊(Amazon.com)全球最大书店的提法相形见绌。 - But in a blog post, Google claimed this overstated its influence when it came to online shopping sites, with Amazon and eBay overshadowing it in Germany.
不过,谷歌在一篇博客文章中声称,就在线购物网站而言,这种说法夸大了谷歌的影响力,比如在德国,亚马逊和eBay就令谷歌相形见绌。 - Chapter three will elaborate on the manifestations of the death complex in Moment in Peking, which is divided into three stages: encountering the death, confronting the death and overshadowing the death.
第三章主要探讨死亡情结在《京华烟云》的体现,包括三个阶段:遭遇死亡、面对死亡和超越死亡。 - Media coverage is saturated with ever more strident rhetoric over ever narrower issues, overshadowing the fundamental interests at stake.
媒体报道则充满越来越强硬的言论,针对的议题却越来越狭窄,遮盖了其中涉及的根本利益。 - From the17th century the decorative function of jewelry again came to the fore, overshadowing its symbolic significance.
7世纪起,珠宝的装饰功能再度领先,超过它的象征意义。 - In the minds of most Chinese, the word Harvard is synonymous with educational excellence-to the point of overshadowing other equally top-notch Western institutions of higher education except maybe Oxford and Cambridge.
在很多中国人的心里,哈佛就是优秀教育的同义词&甚至超过了除牛津和剑桥之外的同等级西方高校。