shade

noun

1. protective covering that protects something from direct sunlight

e.g. they used umbrellas as shades
as the sun moved he readjusted the shade

2. a representation of the effect of shadows in a picture or drawing (as by shading or darker pigment)

3. a quality of a given color that differs slightly from another color

e.g. after several trials he mixed the shade of pink that she wanted

Synonym: tinttincturetone

4. a mental representation of some haunting experience

e.g. he looked like he had seen a ghost
it aroused specters from his past

Synonym: ghostspookwraithspecterspectre

5. a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude

e.g. without understanding the finer nuances you can't enjoy the humor
don't argue about shades of meaning

Synonym: nuancenicetysubtletyrefinement

6. a slight amount or degree of difference

e.g. a tad too expensive
not a tad of difference
the new model is a shade better than the old one

Synonym: tad

7. a position of relative inferiority

e.g. an achievement that puts everything else in the shade
his brother's success left him in the shade

8. relative darkness caused by light rays being intercepted by an opaque body

e.g. it is much cooler in the shade
there's too much shadiness to take good photographs

Synonym: shadinessshadowiness

verb

1. pass from one quality such as color to another by a slight degree

e.g. the butterfly wings shade to yellow

2. vary slightly

e.g. shade the meaning

3. protect from light, heat, or view

e.g. Shade your eyes when you step out into the bright sunlight

4. represent the effect of shade or shadow on

Synonym: fill in

5. cast a shadow over

Synonym: shadowshade off

1. (色彩的)浓淡，深浅，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.

e.g. In the mornings the sky appeared a heavy shade of mottled gray...
清晨，天空呈现出斑驳的深灰色。
e.g. The walls were painted in two shades of green.
墙壁是用深浅两种绿色油漆的。

2. 阴凉处;背阴;(树)阴
Shade is an area of darkness under or next to an object such as a tree, where sunlight does not reach.

e.g. Temperatures in the shade can reach forty-eight degrees celsius at this time of year...
一年中的这个时间,背阴处的温度可达到 48 摄氏度。
e.g. Alexis walked up the coast, and resumed his reading in the shade of an overhanging cliff.
亚历克西斯顺着海岸前行，走到一处悬崖下的阴凉地又重新开始阅读。

3. 给…遮挡(光线);荫蔽
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.

e.g. ...a health resort whose beaches are shaded by palm trees...
海滩上棕榈树成阴的疗养胜地
e.g. Most plants prefer to be lightly shaded from direct, hot sunlight...
大多数植物都要尽量避免强光直射。

4. (为避免强光照射而)遮挡,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.

e.g. You can't look directly into it; you've got to shade your eyes or close them altogether...
你不能直视它，必须遮住眼睛或索性闭上。
e.g. I had to stop at the traffic lights and put down the sun visor to shade my eyes from the light.
我不得不在红绿灯处停车，然后放下遮阳板来遮挡阳光。

5. (绘画的)暗部，阴影部分
Shade is darkness or shadows as they are shown in a picture.

shade的近义词

e.g. ...Rembrandt's skilful use of light and shade to create the atmosphere of movement.
伦勃朗为营造一种动态效果而对光线和阴影的巧妙运用

6. (抽象事物的)细微差别,不同方面
The shades of something abstract are its many, slightly different forms.

e.g. ...the capacity to convey subtle shades of meaning.
能表达意思上的各种微妙差别的能力
e.g. ...literally dozens of newspapers of every shade of opinion.
确实很多报纸观点各异

7. 逐渐变成;渐渐与…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.

e.g. As the dusk shaded into night, we drove slowly through narrow alleys...
夜幕渐渐降临，我们驱车在狭窄的胡同里缓慢前行。
e.g. The tail feathers are dark blue at their bases, shading to pale blue at their tips.
尾羽的根部呈深蓝色，到了尾尖就渐变成淡蓝色。

8. 太阳镜;墨镜
Shades are sunglasses .

9. 同 lampshade
A shade is the same as a lampshade .

10. 窗帘;卷帘
A shade is a piece of stiff cloth or heavy paper that you can pull down over a window as a covering.

e.g. Nancy left the shades down and the lights off.
南希放下窗帘，关了灯。

11. 魂灵;幽灵
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.

e.g. His writing benefits from the shade of Lincoln hovering over his shoulder.
他的写作得益于他感到已故的林肯一直在他身后激励着他。

12. see also: shaded;shading

13. 有点;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.

shade的近义词

e.g. The first two goals were a shade fortunate...
头两个进球都有点碰巧。
e.g. He found her charming, but perhaps just a shade too ingenuous for him...
他觉得她很迷人，但对他来说可能又有点太过天真。

14. (演出等的)富于变化，多层次
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.

e.g. ...a faltering, artless voice that is pleasant enough, if rather lacking in light and shade.
尽管缺乏层次变化，但听上去仍比较悦耳的有些颤抖、未作修饰的嗓音。

15. 使黯然失色;使相形见绌
To put someone or something in the shade means to be so impressive that the person or thing seems unimportant by comparison.

e.g. ...a run that put every other hurdler's performance in the shade.
一次让其他所有跨栏运动员的表现都相形见绌的赛跑

1. 阴影：在都柏林,他最近刚刚把自己的新小说<>(Shade)交给出版社. 故事用一个女孩的眼睛来描写她在自家花园里被园丁杀死的过程,是尼尔?乔丹响应读者号召写的一本恐怖小说. 因为有的读者们在看过感受<>的诡秘气氛之后,

2. 暗：特别体现在<>(Stero World)、W.I.T、<>(Shade)等这些作品中. 当然他们并不是唯一一支受到'碎瓜'影响的年轻乐队. 另外值得一提的是<>(Sweet 16)这首歌曲的词作整个就是另类摇滚版的<>[Janie's Got A Gun,

3. 灯罩：照明装置采用了打开灯罩(Shade)便会自动亮灯,而合上以后灯便会熄灭的开合式开关. 灯罩的开合角度可以在约25度到90度之间进行调节. 另外该产品还配备了万一倒下可以同时切断照明和离子发生设备电源的功能.

4. 遮蔽：导入的toString方法被ImportDuty从Object那里继承而来的具有相同名字的方法所遮蔽(shade)了[JLS 6.3.1]. 遮蔽与遮掩(谜题68)非常相像,二者的关键区别是一个声明只能遮蔽类型相同的另一个声明:一个类型声明可以遮蔽另一个类型声明,