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Comprehensive Chinese-English Dictionary

阴影 [yīnyǐng]
  1. 1. shadow; shade
    肺部有阴影
    have a shadow on one's lungs
    树木的阴影
    shadows of trees

Contemporary Standard Chinese Dictionary

阴影 [yīnyǐng]
  1. 1. 阴暗的影子;比喻不愉快不顺利的事情
    透视发现肺部有阴影
    她自幼生活在疾病的阴影里。

Examples

肺部有阴影
have a shadow on one's lungs
她刚刚新寡,还没从失去丈夫的阴影中走出来。
She is newly widowed, and still in the shadow of her husband's death.
阴影
她自幼生活在疾病的阴影里。
He stepped out of the shadows and gave me such a fright.
他从阴影中走了出来,吓了我一跳。
The news about her neighbor's death put a shadow over the rest of the day.
她那一天剩下的光景都被邻居的死讯罩上了一层阴影

Collocations

树木的阴影
the shadow of trees
失败的阴影
the shadow of failure
阴影部分
shadow
蒙上阴影
be shrouded by shadows
阴影笼罩
be shrouded by shadows

Word Decomposition


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