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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• First, sovereign debt service costs are set to soar, overshadowing those for programmes, such as environmental protection and some social services, and, unlike past successful fiscal adjustments, no country can lower interest rates as a palliative.
  首先，主权债务清偿成本势将大幅上升，超过诸如环境保护和一些社会服务等项目的偿债成本。而且，不像以往那些成功的财政调整，今后没有哪个国家能够把下调利率作为一种权宜之计。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• On the other hand, it is necessary to keep sober-minded, and warn of the potential overshadowing or even loss of Chinese cultural identity due to English cultural hegemony.
  另一方面，应该保持清醒的头脑，警惕英语文化霸权对中国自身文化的消弱。
• 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%；