overshadow
overshadow 英 [ˌəʊvəˈʃædəʊ] 美 [ˌoʊvərˈʃædoʊ]
vt. 使失色；使阴暗；遮阴；夺去…的光彩
进行时:overshadowing 过去式:overshadowed 过去分词:overshadowed 第三人称单数:overshadows 名词复数:overshadows
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- vt. 使失色；使阴暗；遮阴；夺去…的光彩
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1. And she says while the world is right to be concerned about a possible flu pandemic, it should not let these worries overshadow or interrupt other vital health programs.
她还说，尽管世界目前担心可能发生的流感疫症，这些担忧不应该遮挡或者干扰我们实施其它生命攸关的健康计划。
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2. At the same time, though, we do not want our story to overshadow the critical plight of these desperate defectors.
同时，我们不希望我们的故事掩盖了那些绝望的出逃者的严重的生存困境。
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3. The researchers think that this occurred about a century ago, just when commercial agriculture was replacing subsistence farming and maize started to overshadow indigenous crops in Africa.
这组科学家认为这发生在大约一个世纪之前，就在商业农业取代生存农业、而玉米开始取代非洲本土作物的时候。
- overshadow (v.) Old English ofersceadwian "to cast a shadow over, obscure;" see over + shadow (v.). It was used to render Latin obumbrare in New Testament, as were Middle High German überschatewen, Middle Dutch overschaduwen, Gothic ufarskadwjan. Figurative sense is from 1580s. Related: Overshadowed; overshadowing.
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