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

• 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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The first section analyzes her narrative strategies of forming multiple-editions of history by apposing different angles of view to show the constraints that narrative style plays on history, and further illustrates the neglect and overshadowing of main current of history to individual lives and life values.
  第一节分析严歌苓通过以并置视角形成多版本历史的叙事策略展示叙述方式对历史的制约，进一步说明主流历史话语对个体生活和生命价值的忽视遮蔽。
• 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%；