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(色彩的)濃淡，深淺，色度
A shade of a particular colour is one of its different forms. For example, emerald green and olive green are shades of green.
例句
In the mornings the sky appeared a heavy shade of mottled gray...
清晨，天空呈現出斑駁的深灰色。
The walls were painted in two shades of green.
墻壁是用深淺兩種綠色油漆的。
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陰涼處;背陰;(樹)陰
Shade is an area of darkness under or next to an object such as a tree, where sunlight does not reach.
例句
Temperatures in the shade can reach forty-eight degrees celsius at this time of year...
一年中的這個時間,背陰處的溫度可達到 48 攝氏度。
Alexis walked up the coast, and resumed his reading in the shade of an overhanging cliff.
亞歷克西斯順著海岸前行，走到一處懸崖下的陰涼地又重新開始閱讀。
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VERB
給…遮擋(光線);蔭蔽
If you say that a place or person is shaded by objects such as trees, you mean that the place or person cannot be reached, harmed, or bothered by strong sunlight because those objects are in the way.
例句
...a health resort whose beaches are shaded by palm trees...
海灘上棕櫚樹成陰的療養勝地
Most plants prefer to be lightly shaded from direct, hot sunlight...
大多數植物都要盡量避免強光直射。
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VERB
(為避免強光照射而)遮擋,遮住(眼睛)
If you shade your eyes, you put your hand or an object partly in front of your face in order to prevent a bright light from shining into your eyes.
例句
You can't look directly into it; you've got to shade your eyes or close them altogether...
你不能直視它，必須遮住眼睛或索性閉上。
I had to stop at the traffic lights and put down the sun visor to shade my eyes from the light.
我不得不在紅綠燈處停車，然后放下遮陽板來遮擋陽光。
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(繪畫的)暗部，陰影部分
Shade is darkness or shadows as they are shown in a picture.
例句
...Rembrandt's skilful use of light and shade to create the atmosphere of movement.
倫勃朗為營造一種動態效果而對光線和陰影的巧妙運用
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(抽象事物的)細微差別,不同方面
The shades of something abstract are its many, slightly different forms.
例句
...the capacity to convey subtle shades of meaning.
能表達意思上的各種微妙差別的能力
...literally dozens of newspapers of every shade of opinion.
確實很多報紙觀點各異
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VERB
逐漸變成;漸漸與…分辨不清
If something shades into something else, there is no clear division between the two things, so that you cannot tell where or when the first thing ends and the second thing begins.
例句
As the dusk shaded into night, we drove slowly through narrow alleys...
夜幕漸漸降臨，我們驅車在狹窄的胡同里緩慢前行。
The tail feathers are dark blue at their bases, shading to pale blue at their tips.
尾羽的根部呈深藍色，到了尾尖就漸變成淡藍色。
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太陽鏡;墨鏡
Shades are sunglasses .
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同 lampshade
A shade is the same as a lampshade .
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窗簾;卷簾
A shade is a piece of stiff cloth or heavy paper that you can pull down over a window as a covering.
例句
Nancy left the shades down and the lights off.
南希放下窗簾，關了燈。
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魂靈;幽靈
The shade of a dead person is their spirit, which is thought to be still alive in some way and in contact with the real world.
例句
His writing benefits from the shade of Lincoln hovering over his shoulder.
他的寫作得益于他感到已故的林肯一直在他身后激勵著他。
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PHRASE
有點;略微
If you say that something is, for example, a shade unusual or a shade disappointing, you mean that it is slightly unusual or disappointing.
例句
The first two goals were a shade fortunate...
頭兩個進球都有點碰巧。
He found her charming, but perhaps just a shade too ingenuous for him...
他覺得她很迷人，但對他來說可能又有點太過天真。
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PHRASE
(演出等的)富于變化，多層次
If you say that there is light and shade in something such as a performance, you mean you like it because different parts of it are different in tone or mood.
例句
...a faltering, artless voice that is pleasant enough, if rather lacking in light and shade.
盡管缺乏層次變化，但聽上去仍比較悅耳的有些顫抖、未作修飾的嗓音。
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PHRASE
使黯然失色;使相形見絀
To put someone or something in the shade means to be so impressive that the person or thing seems unimportant by comparison.
例句
...a run that put every other hurdler's performance in the shade.
一次讓其他所有跨欄運動員的表現都相形見絀的賽跑
Noun
1. relative darkness caused by light rays being intercepted by an opaque body;
"it is much cooler in the shade""there's too much shadiness to take good photographs"2. a quality of a given color that differs slightly from a primary color;
"after several trials he mixed the shade of pink that she wanted"3. protective covering that protects something from direct sunlight;
"they used umbrellas as shades""as the sun moved he readjusted the shade"4. a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude;
"without understanding the finer nuances you can't enjoy the humor""don't argue about shades of meaning"5. a position of relative inferiority;
"an achievement that puts everything else in the shade""his brother's success left him in the shade"6. a slight amount or degree of difference;
"a tad too expensive""not a tad of difference""the new model is a shade better than the old one"7. a mental representation of some haunting experience;
"he looked like he had seen a ghost""it aroused specters from his past"8. a representation of the effect of shade in a picture or drawing (as by shading or darker pigment)
Verb
1. cast a shadow over
2. represent the effect of shade or shadow on
3. protect from light, heat, or view;
"Shade your eyes when you step out into the bright sunlight"