shadowy

英 ['ʃædəʊɪ] 美['ʃædoi]
  • adj. 朦胧的;有阴影的;虚无的;暗黑的

TEM4CET6低频词畅通词汇

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.

期刊摘选

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.

期刊摘选

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.

期刊摘选

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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