shadowy
英 ['ʃædəʊɪ]
美['ʃædoi]
- adj. 朦胧的;有阴影的;虚无的;暗黑的
英英释意
- 1. filled with shade;
- "the shady side of the street"
- "the surface of the pond is dark and shadowed"
- "we sat on rocks in a shadowy cove"
- "cool umbrageous woodlands"
- 2. lacking clarity or distinctness;
- "a dim figure in the distance"
- "only a faint recollection"
- "shadowy figures in the gloom"
- "saw a vague outline of a building through the fog"
- "a few wispy memories of childhood"
- 3. lacking in substance;
- "strange fancies of unreal and shadowy worlds"- W.A.Butler
- "dim shadowy forms"
- "a wraithlike column of smoke"
英文词源
- shadowy (adj.)
- late 14c., shadewy, "full of shadows," also "transitory, fleeting, unreal;" see shadow (n.) + -y (2). From 1797 as "faintly perceptible." Related: Shadowiness. Old English had sceadwig "shady."
实用场景例句
- Someone was waiting in the shadowy doorway.
- 有人守候在昏暗的门口。
牛津词典
- Shadowy figures approached them out of the fog.
- 从雾中模模糊糊出来几个人影,向他们走去。
牛津词典
- the shadowy world of terrorism
- 鲜为人知的恐怖主义世界
牛津词典
- I watched him from a shadowy corner.
- 我躲在一个阴暗的角落里观察他。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- ...a broad, shadowy room.
- 一间宽敞阴暗的房间
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- ...a tall, shadowy figure silhouetted against the pale wall.
- 灰白的墙上映出一个高大而模糊的人影
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- ...the shadowy shape of a big barge loaded with logs.
- 装满木材的巨大驳船的模糊轮廓
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- ...the shadowy world of spies.
- 间谍的神秘世界
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- ...a shadowy group calling itself the People's Army.
- 一个自称为“人民军队”的神秘组织
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- They dare not walk into the shadowy depths of the forest.
- 他们不敢走入森林中阴暗的深处.
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- Simba: What about that shadowy place?
- 辛巴: 那那些被阴影掩盖的地方 呢 ?
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- They crouched together on a shadowy hillside.
- 他们蹲在多荫的山坡上.
《简明英汉词典》
- " As we watch against the sunset on the sandy plain , Far , far away , shadowy Lingtao . "
- 平沙日 未没, 黯黯见临洮.
英汉 - 翻译样例 - 文学
- Pickpockets have always been a shadowy feature of New York's streets.
- 扒窃历来是纽约街头的一个阴暗面.
时文部分
- What about that shadowy place?
- 那有阴影的地方 呢 ?
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- Gaslights cast a shadowy glow.
- 煤气灯投下一片片幽暗的光.
辞典例句
- She saw a shadowy figure through the blind.
- 她透过帘子看到一个模糊的身影.
《简明英汉词典》
- Since her illness, other people had become shadowy and had no real existence for her.
- 自从她生病后, 其他人在她眼中变得很模糊,似乎不存在了.
《简明英汉词典》
- As I sit in a shadowy corner, I observe a slow and gradual elongation of his mouth.
- 坐在一个暗角落里我观察到他的嘴慢慢而逐渐地伸长.
《简明英汉词典》
- They say I am the most shadowy husband of all time.
- 他们说我总是最典型的陪衬丈夫.
辞典例句
- The donor dads were shadowy figures, guaranteed anonymity by the clinics.
- 捐精者都隐姓埋名.诊所也保证不透露他们的姓名.
时文部分
- This proved a very vague and shadowy frontier.
- 其实这是一条极其含糊、极不明确的界限.
辞典例句
- For the moment he had forgotten the shadowy figure of Goldstein.
- 他一时忘记了果尔德施坦因的阴影.
英汉文学
- I stood there in the dark shadowy forest that surrounded the old run down school.
- 黑暗中,我站在阴影幢幢的树林里,这片树林围绕着一座破旧废弃的学校.
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- You were all along'the shadowy third'in my short life with her.
- 在我跟她共同生活那个短短的期间,你就永远是一个“暗中的第三者. ”
辞典例句
- My heart has spread its sails to the idle winds for the shadowy island of Anywhere.
- 我的心向着阑珊的风张了帆,要到无论何处的荫凉之岛去.
辞典例句
- When our lives have faded, History will pronounce its cool, detached, and shadowy verdict.
- 在我们的生命消逝以后, 历史将作出冷静 、 公正而寓意深长的定论.
辞典例句
- My heart spread its sails to the idle winds for the shadowy island of Anywhere.
- 我的心迎着懒懒的风扬起了帆,想要往“无论何处”的阴凉之岛去.
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- My heart spread its sails the idle winds the shadowy island of Anywhere.
- 我的心扬起了白帆,乘着悠闲的风儿,驶向无名的小岛.
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