Verb:

1. be greater in significance than;

   "the tragedy overshadowed the couple's happiness"
   

2. make appear small by comparison;

   "This year's debt dwarfs that of last year"
   

3. cast a shadow upon;

   "The tall tree overshadowed the house"
   

• A stuffed ferret, whose death..had overshadowed..one Easter holiday.

  出自：E. Waugh

Large oak trees overshadow the garden.

高大的栎树把花园遮得很暗。

They traveled to a village overshadowed by mountains.

他们旅游到了一个被山影笼罩的村庄。

His recent death overshadowed the family gathering.

他最近去世给家庭聚会蒙上了阴影。

Her new book will overshadow all her earlier ones.

她的这部新作将会使她的早期作品黯然失色。

Despite her professional success, she is always overshadow by her husband.

尽管她事业有成，但和丈夫相比总觉逊色。

Her childhood was overshadowed by her mother's incarceration in a psychiatric hospital.

她的母亲被关在精神病院，这给她的童年蒙上了阴影。

His triumph was overshadowed by an uneasy sense of foreboding.

他的胜利因为一种令人不安的不祥预感蒙上了阴影。

His last years were overshadowed by financial worry.

他生命的最后几年穷困潦倒，十分惨淡。

He had always been overshadowed by his elder sister.

他与他姐姐相比总是相形见绌。

Mary was sometimes overshadowed by the more talkative members of the family.

有时家中更健谈的人使玛丽显得黯然失色.

Heavy clouds overshadowed the mountain.

厚厚的云层遮掩了大山.

His disappearance overshadowed the family.

他的失踪给家庭蒙上了一层阴影.

He overshadowed all his comrades.

他使所有同僚都黯然失色.

Their gaieties were overshadowed by the sad news.

这不幸的消息使他们的欢乐蒙上一层阴影.

She said stations should be in the open, near housing, not overshadowed by trees or walls.

她说车站应该建在住宅区附近的开阔地带，而不应为树木或墙壁所遮挡。

A leaf before the eye shuts out Mount Tai -- have one's view of the important overshadowed by the trivial.

一叶蔽目,不见泰山.

Hester is overshadowed by her younger and more attractive sister.

赫斯特在她那年轻而且姿色更胜一筹的妹妹面前黯然失色。

Those concerns were overshadowed by subsequent events.

随后发生的事使之前所关注的那些问题显得无足轻重。

All other laurels are overshadowed by hers.

所有的荣誉与她所获得的相比都黯然失色.

The huge brick house which Banker White had built on Buckey Street had overshadowed it.

银行家怀特在白克埃街上建的大砖屋,使它黯然失色.