shine
名词 n.
动词 v.
英 /ʃaɪn/
美 /ʃaɪn/
英文释义
名词 n.
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Brightness from a source of light.
— the distant shine of the celestial city
- Brightness from reflected light.
- Excellence in quality or appearance; splendour.
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Shoeshine.
— Take a shine. You need it.
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Sunshine (typically in contrast with rain).
— be fair or foul, or rain or shine
- Moonshine; an illicitly brewed alcoholic drink.
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A black person.
— "If you want your black head blown off, shine, you just make a move to stop us."
- The amount of shininess on a cricket ball, or on each side of the ball.
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A liking for a person; a fancy.
— She's certainly taken a shine to you.
- A caper; an antic; a row.
动词 v.
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To emit or reflect light so as to glow.
— The water shone pacifically; the sky, without a speck, was a benign immensity of unstained light; the very mist on the Essex marshes was like a gauzy and radiant fabric, hung from the wooded rises inland, and draping the low shores in diaphanous folds.
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To cause (something) to be smooth and shiny by rubbing; put a shine on (something); polish (something).
— He shined my shoes until they were polished smooth and gleaming.
- To polish a cricket ball using saliva and one’s clothing.
- To reflect light.
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To distinguish oneself; to excel.
— My nephew tried other sports before deciding on football, which he shone at right away, quickly becoming the star of his school team.
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To be effulgent in splendour or beauty.
— So proud she shyned in her Princely state.
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To be eminent, conspicuous, or distinguished; to exhibit brilliant intellectual powers.
— Few are qualified to shine in company; but it in most men's power to be agreeable.
- To be immediately apparent.
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To create light with (a flashlight, lamp, torch, or similar).
— I shone my light into the darkness to see what was making the noise.
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To cause to shine, as a light or by reflected light.
— in hunting, to shine the eyes of a deer at night by throwing a light on them
词汇关系
衍生词
ashine
beshine
fix the roof while the sun is shining
sea to shining sea
intershine
knight in shining armor
knight in shining armour
outshine
overshine
reshine
rise and shine
shine a light on
shine down on
shine down upon
shine light on
shine off
shine on
shiner
shine through
shine up
shining firmoss
shining ones
shining tubeshoulder
where the sun doesn't shine
where the sun don't shine
backshine
foreshine
anti-shine powder
candleshine
come rain or shine
cookie-shine
coreshine
cut a shine
dewshine
earthshine
eyeshine
fireshine
get one's shine box
monkeyshine
rain or shine
ringshine
seashine
shine box
shineful
shineless
shine muscat
shininess
Shinola
shiny
spit shine
spitshine
starshine
sylvanshine
take a shine to
take the shine out of
through-shine
wondershine
词源
词源 1
From Middle English shinen, schinen (preterite schon, past participle schinen), from Old English sċīnan (“to shine, flash; be resplendent”; preterite sċān, past participle sċinen), from Proto-West Germanic *skīnan (“to shine”), from Proto-Germanic *skīnaną (“to shine”).
Cognate with Dutch schijnen, German scheinen, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål skinne, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish skina, Faroese and Icelandic skína.
Cognate with Dutch schijnen, German scheinen, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål skinne, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish skina, Faroese and Icelandic skína.
词源 2
From the noun shine, or perhaps continuing Middle English schinen in its causative uses, from Old English scīn (“brightness, shine”), and also Middle English schenen, from Old English scǣnan (“to render brilliant, make shine”), from Proto-Germanic *skainijaną, causative of *skīnaną (“to shine”).
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