n. 荫, 阴暗, 遮光物, 灯罩, 帘, 浓淡, 微量, 底纹

vi. 渐变

vt. 使阴暗, 使渐变, 遮蔽, 微减

[计] 底纹

[化] 色光

[经] 价格或条件上的少许让步

Shade \Shade\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Shaded}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Shading}.]
1. To shelter or screen by intercepting the rays of light; to
keep off illumination from. --Milton.

I went to crop the sylvan scenes,
And shade our altars with their leafy greens.
--Dryden.

2. To shelter; to cover from injury; to protect; to screen;
to hide; as, to shade one's eyes.

Ere in our own house I do shade my head. --Shak.

3. To obscure; to dim the brightness of.

Thou shad'st
The full blaze of thy beams. --Milton.

4. To pain in obscure colors; to darken.

5. To mark with gradations of light or color.

6. To present a shadow or image of; to shadow forth; to
represent. [Obs.]

[The goddess] in her person cunningly did shade
That part of Justice which is Equity. --Spenser.


Shade \Shade\ (sh[=a]d), n. [OE. shade, shadewe, schadewe, AS.
sceadu, scead; akin to OS. skado, D. schaduw, OHG. scato,
(gen. scatewes), G. schatten, Goth. skadus, Ir. & Gael.
sgath, and probably to Gr. sko`tos darkness. [root]162. Cf.
{Shadow}, {Shed} a hat.]
1. Comparative obscurity owing to interception or
interruption of the rays of light; partial darkness caused
by the intervention of something between the space
contemplated and the source of light.

Note: Shade differs from shadow as it implies no particular
form or definite limit; whereas a shadow represents in
form the object which intercepts the light. When we
speak of the shade of a tree, we have no reference to
its form; but when we speak of measuring a pyramid or
other object by its shadow, we have reference to its
form and extent.

2. Darkness; obscurity; -- often in the plural.

The shades of night were falling fast. --Longfellow.

3. An obscure place; a spot not exposed to light; hence, a
secluded retreat.

Let us seek out some desolate shade, and there
Weep our sad bosoms empty. --Shak.

4. That which intercepts, or shelters from, light or the
direct rays of the sun; hence, also, that which protects
from heat or currents of air; a screen; protection;
shelter; cover; as, a lamp shade.

The Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand. --Ps.
cxxi. 5.

Sleep under a fresh tree's shade. --Shak.

Let the arched knife well sharpened now assail the
spreading shades of vegetables. --J. Philips.

5. Shadow. [Poetic.]

Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue. --Pope.

6. The soul after its separation from the body; -- so called
because the ancients it to be perceptible to the sight,
though not to the touch; a spirit; a ghost; as, the shades
of departed heroes.

Swift as thought the flitting shade
Thro' air his momentary journey made. --Dryden.

7. (Painting, Drawing, etc.) The darker portion of a picture;
a less illuminated part. See Def. 1, above.

8. Degree or variation of color, as darker or lighter,
stronger or paler; as, a delicate shade of pink.

White, red, yellow, blue, with their several
degrees, or shades and mixtures, as green only in by
the eyes. --Locke.

9. A minute difference or variation, as of thought, belief,
expression, etc.; also, the quality or degree of anything
which is distinguished from others similar by slight
differences; as, the shades of meaning in synonyms.

New shades and combinations of thought. --De
Quincey.

Every shade of religious and political opinion has
its own headquarters. --Macaulay.

{The Shades}, the Nether World; the supposed abode of souls
after leaving the body.


Shade \Shade\ (sh[=a]d), v. i. [See {Shade}, n.]
To undergo or exhibit minute difference or variation, as of
color, meaning, expression, etc.; to pass by slight changes;
-- used chiefly with a preposition, as into, away, off.

This small group will be most conveniently treated with
the emotional division, into which it shades. --Edmund
Gurney.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]