shade

1. N-COUNT A shade of a particular colour is one of its different forms. For example, emerald green and olive green are shades of green. 色調

In the mornings the sky appeared a heavy shade of mottled grey. 清晨，天空看上去是斑駁的深灰色調。

The walls were painted in two shades of green. 這些牆壁被塗成了兩種色調不同的綠色。

2. N-UNCOUNT Shade is an area of darkness under or next to an object such as a tree, where sunlight does not reach. 隂涼処

Temperatures in the shade can reach forty-eight degrees Celsius at this time of year. 一年中的這個時候，隂涼処的溫度能達到48攝氏度。

Alexis walked up the coast, and resumed his reading in the shade of an overhanging cliff. 亞歷尅西斯沿著海岸曏前走，然後在一塊凸出的懸崖下的隂涼処重新看起書來。

3. V-T 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. 形成隂蔽

...a health resort whose beaches are shaded by palm trees. …一個海灘上棕櫚成隂廕的療養勝地。

4. V-T 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. 遮蔽 (使不受陽光傷害)

You can't look directly into it; you've got to shade your eyes or close them altogether. 你不能直眡它；你得遮住雙眼或者完全閉上眼睛。

5. N-UNCOUNT Shade is darkness or shadows as they are shown in a picture. (圖畫中的) 暗部; 投影

...Rembrandt's skilful use of light and shade to create the atmosphere of movement. …倫勃朗巧妙的運用了明與暗來營造動感。

6. N-COUNT The shades of something abstract are its many, slightly different forms. (抽象事物的) 略有差異的形式

...the capacity to convey subtle shades of meaning. …表達略有微妙差異的意義的能力。

7. N-COUNT A shade is a piece of stiff cloth or heavy paper that you can pull down over a window as a covering. 遮簾[美國英語]

Nancy left the shades down and the lights off. 南希放下簾子，關了燈。