Overshadow

(verb.) cast a shadow upon; 'The tall tree overshadowed the house'.

(verb.) be greater in significance than; 'the tragedy overshadowed the couple's happiness'.

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• From it sprang that tree of Christianity whose broad arms overshadow so many distant lands to-day. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Then arose Thebes, a city not fifty miles from Athens, to overshadow Sparta. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• In her old age she saw Rome built; she saw it overshadow the world with its power; she saw it perish. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• They were warlike little nations and defied, in those days, governments that overshadow them now as mountains overshadow molehills. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Gnarled and twisted trees spring from the old walls every where, and beautify and overshadow the gray battlements with a wild luxuriance of foliage. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The shade was screwed down so as to overshadow her face. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• A great square house, with a heavy portico darkening the principal windows, as its master's heavy brows overshadowed his eyes. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• It was overshadowed by a dome so mighty that its own height was snubbed. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• His chin dropped upon his hand, and his white hair overshadowed his face: Have you spoken to Lucie? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• The period of which I write was an overshadowed one in British history, and especially in the history of the northern provinces. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• For a time this new acquirement seems to have overshadowed their earlier achievement of drawing, and possibly it checked the use of gesture. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Oh, well, no wonder mine were overshadowed by Beaufort's, said Archer irritably. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• A landing-place overshadowed by a willow, and a pleasure-boat lying moored there among some stakes, caught his eye as he passed along. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• There was a large beech-tree overshadowing the place, and the small, sharp, triangular beech-nuts lay scattered thickly on the ground. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• I would say: I saw there a country which has no overshadowing Mother Church, and yet the people survive. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.

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