1UNIMPORTANTto make someone or something else seem less important 使〔别的人或事〕顯得較不重要,使相形見绌[黯然失色]
Her interest in politics began to overshadow her desire to be a poet.
她對政治的興趣開始蓋過了想當詩人的願望。
The achievement of the men’s team was overshadowed by the continuing success of the women’s team.
男子組的成績在女子組的連連勝利面前相形見绌。
2WORRIEDto make an occasion or period of time less enjoyable by making people feel sad or worried 〔因使人感到難過或憂慮而〕給〔某一場合或某段時間〕蒙上陰影
The threat of war overshadowed the summer of 1939.
戰爭的威脅給1939年的夏天蒙上了陰影。
3BIGif a tall building, mountain etc overshadows a place, it is very close to it and much taller than it 〔高樓、高山等〕遮蔽,遮擋〔周圍某處〕
a dark valley overshadowed by towering peaks
被高聳的山峰遮蔽的幽暗山谷
Examples from the Corpus
overshadow• Tim felt constantly overshadowed by his older brother.• He has been overshadowed by Kevin Hardy, the top defensiveprospect in the draft.• Gore has assiduously cultivated his eventualpresidentialcandidacy without undercutting or overshadowing Clinton.• The first was that the adjoining bungalow would not be overshadowed, either practically or figuratively, by the new house.• But even this sad circumstance was overshadowed for me by political events of the week.• It would be overshadowed if it did.• Rumors of financialmalpracticeovershadowed the President's inauguration ceremony.• An impressive 25-storyskyscraperovershadows the temple next door.• It was an anxiety so consuming that it overshadowed what actually happened once the war came.