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

• 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。
• In the minds of most Chinese, the word Harvard is synonymous with educational excellence-to the point of overshadowing other equally top-notch Western institutions of higher education except maybe Oxford and Cambridge.
  在很多中国人的心里，哈佛就是优秀教育的同义词&甚至超过了除牛津和剑桥之外的同等级西方高校。
• 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%；
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 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。