| 词汇 | shadowy |
| 释义 | shadowy adjective uk /ˈʃæd.əʊ.i/ us /ˈʃæd.oʊ.i/ dark and full of shadows: 多阴影的;阴暗的，幽暗的 She was startled by a sudden movement in the shadowy hallway.幽暗的走廊中突然有动静，把她吓了一跳。 with little or no light darkShe peered down the dark hallway. darkenedWe arrived late and had to make our way to our seats in a darkened theatre. dimHe sat in a dim corner of the waiting room. shadowyI was afraid to walk down the dim, shadowy corridor. pitch blackIt was pitch black on our street after the power outage. used to refer to someone or something about which little is known: 不详的，鲜为人知的 The English king, Arthur, is a somewhat shadowy figure who may not have even existed.英格兰国王亚瑟是个有些扑朔迷离的人物，可能这个人并不存在。 They are members of some shadowy extremist group.他们是某个神秘极端主义组织的成员。 Darkness & becoming dark blackness crepuscular darkened darkness dim dimly dimness dingily dingy inky pitch darkness pitchy plunge someone/something into darkness semi-darkness shade shaded shadow silhouette silhouetted twilight You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Unknown and unfamiliar shadowy | American Dictionaryshadowy adjective us/ˈʃæd·oʊ·i/ causing or covered by shadows: Orchids hung from shadowy trees. Shadowy can also mean mysterious: These criminals have built a shadowy network of hard-to-trace bank accounts. Examples of shadowyshadowy However, the structures and dynamics of this government in waiting remain shadowy. Our understanding of the interrelationships between these shadowy brotherhoods is still far from clear. Private secretaries and litigation masters, who could move freely between both categories, belong to a shadowy underworld. A suggestive vision of an interlocking hierarchy of house types, reflecting the social pyramid begins to take shadowy shape. As we do so, the ' middle sort ', like other more recent shadowy creatures, tends to disappear before our eyes. The research into this shadowy world is the strength of this study. In blues and country music, echo and reverb effects were increasingly from this time onwards used to suggest shadowy, subterranean, marginal presences. More serious opposition came from outsiders and minorities, who led a shadowy existence on the periphery of the state. The watchmen, constables and beadles of the metropolis remain shadowy ®gures. Here before me lies a shadowy way leading to a strange, an unknown place. The father is sketched in as a shadowy figure in a dark winter coat. Ongoing moments, therefore, become a kind of obdurate baseline against which anything that involves more - patterns, forms, narratives - emerges as shadowy and unreal. The state remains a rather shadowy actor in the ecowelfare model - but apparently an important one if the model's core principles are to be properly embedded. We are straying into the shadowy area of musical and verbal identity, and the kinds of patterns of recognition that begin to enable us to construct such identities. Of delineation and psychological development not a trace, only vague, shadowy outlines, without physiognomies, without personality. See all examples of shadowy These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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