shadow

Các nghĩa

1. bóng · bóng tối

   A dark image projected onto a surface where light (or other radiation) is blocked by the shade of an object.

   countable · uncountable

   My shadow lengthened as the sun began to set.

   The X-ray showed a shadow on his lung.

2. bóng tối, bóng râm

   Relative darkness, especially as caused by the interruption of light; gloom; obscurity.

   countable · uncountable

   I immediately jumped into shadow as I saw them approach.

   In secret shadow from the sunny ray, / On a sweet bed of lillies softly layd.

   Night's sable shadows from the ocean rise.

3. bóng râm, chỗ khuất

   An area protected by an obstacle (likened to an object blocking out sunlight).

   countable · uncountable

   The mountains block the passage of rain-producing weather systems and cast a "shadow" of dryness behind them.

4. bóng, hình bóng

   That which looms as though a shadow.

   countable · figuratively · uncountable

   I lived in her shadow my whole life.

   Don't look back. Nothing left to see, just leave those shadows to the past.

5. chút, một chút

   A small degree; a shade.

   countable · uncountable

   He did not give even a shadow of respect to the professor.

   I don't have a shadow of doubt in my mind that my plan will succeed.

   no variableness, neither shadow of turning

6. hình bóng mờ nhạt

   An imperfect and faint representation.

   countable · uncountable

   He came back from war the shadow of a man.

   The neopagan ritual was only a pale shadow of the ones the Greeks held thousands of years ago.

   the law having a shadow of good things to come

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• shadows plural