shadow是什么意思

详细释义

• 0 an area of darkness, caused by light being blocked by something -- 陰影，影子

  • The children were playing, jumping on each other's shadows. 孩子們正在嬉戲，跳來跳去踩彼此的影子。

  • Jamie followed his mother around all day like a shadow. 傑米像影子一樣整天跟著他母親。

  • The sun shone through the leaves, casting/throwing shadows on the lawn. 陽光透過樹葉，在草地上投下陰影。

  • This corner of the room is always in shadow (= slight darkness). 房間的這個角落總是有點暗。

  • Someone jumped out of the shadows and grabbed my handbag. 有個人從陰暗處竄出，搶走了我的手袋子。

  • She put on some make-up to cover the dark shadows under her eyes. 她化了點妝來掩蓋她眼睛下的黑眼圈。

  • His workshop was in the shadow of the great church of San Paolo Maggiore. 他的工作坊離聖保羅大教堂很近。

  • We are all living under the shadow of war. 我們都生活在戰爭的陰影中。

• 1 a small amount -- 一點點，一絲

  • It is a tragic story, but there is a shadow of hope. 那是一個悲慘的故事，但仍有一絲希望。

  • There isn't a shadow of doubt that you've made the right decision. 毫無疑問，你作出的決定是正確的。

  • This is without a shadow of a doubt the best movie I've seen all year. 毫無疑問，這是我整年來看過最好的一部電影。

• 2 someone who follows another person everywhere -- 跟蹤者，盯梢者；形影不離的人

  • "I think we have a shadow on our tail," muttered the detective. 「我認爲有人在跟蹤我們，」偵探低聲說。

  • Ever since he was able to walk, Stephen has been his older brother's shadow (= has followed him and copied his actions). 自從史蒂芬會走路之後，就一直和他哥哥形影不離。

• 3 to follow closely -- 尾隨；跟蹤

  • The police think that the robbers shadowed their victims for days before the crime. 警方認爲搶劫者是跟蹤了被害人幾天之後才犯案的。

  • The euro has closely shadowed the dollar. 歐元緊跟在美元之後。

  • Your first week in the job will be spent shadowing one of our more experienced employees. 你工作的第一週將會跟隨我們其中一位經驗豐富的員工學習。

• 4 to produce a shadow -- 投下陰影；產生陰影

  • We came across a glade shadowed by large trees. 我們偶然發現了一塊被大樹遮蔽的空地。

• 5 to make a person unhappy or to make their life less happy -- 使（某人）不快樂

  • Mental illness had shadowed him for more than a decade. 十年來他的人生一直被精神疾病所困擾。

• 6 used in the title of important politicians in the main opposition party (= the party not in government) -- （用於主要反對黨的要員的頭銜中）影子的

  • the Shadow Foreign Secretary 影子外交大臣

  • the Shadow Cabinet 影子內閣