overshadow
pronunciation
UK [ˌəʊvəˈʃædəʊ]
US [ˌoʊvərˈʃædoʊ]
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- vt.
- 使失色
- 使阴暗
- 夺去…的光辉
- 遮阴
Word Origin
overshadow 使蒙上阴影，使黯然失色
over-,在上，shadow,阴影。即在上面的阴影，使蒙上阴影。
Example
- 1. The increasing violence of that conflict is threatening to overshadow much of the other good work .
- 冲突引起的暴力事件在增加，这给其他有益的工作带来了阴影。
- 2. It was at this point that mr. jackson 's bizarre private life began to overshadow his music .
- 正是在这个时候，迈克.杰克逊的音乐生涯被他奇异的私人生活蒙上了阴影。
- 3. The fallout over tibet and growing anti-western sentiment in china is threatening to overshadow today 's inauguration of a new top-level dialogue between beijing and brussels in the chinese capital .
- 西藏事件的影响，以及中国国内日益升温的反西方情绪，可能给今天在北京开幕的新一轮中欧高层对话蒙上阴影。
- 4. Ore successful work surrounding the errors tends to overshadow the goofs .
- 但周围的工作较为成功的错误往往掩盖了懒。
- 5. That issue is now sure to overshadow next month 's eu-russia summit .
- 这一事情必将让下个月的欧盟-俄罗斯峰会黯然失色。
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