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.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。
• 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.
  1. 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。
• 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.
  1. 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。
  2. 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。

双语例句

• 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。
• Utility applications are visually attractive, but in a way that enhances the information they display without overshadowing it.
  实用程序有吸引人的视觉效果，在某种程度上，这种效果加强了信息的呈现，而不是遮蔽呈现。
• 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 result showed that the survival rates were different due to the different overshadowing measures.
  结果表明：栽植方式相同，但遮阴方法不同，其移栽成活率也不尽相同。
• 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。
• The outflows led to weaker private banking earnings, overshadowing a slow recovery in investment banking.
  这些资金流出导致私人银行业务盈利趋弱，给投行业务的缓慢复苏蒙上阴影。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。