We know we just shadow the way we ought to be.

我们知道我们总是行不出我们本该有的样子。

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It was very late and everyone had left the cafe except an old man who sat in the shadow the leaves of the tree made against the electric light.

时间很晚了，大家都离开餐馆，只有一个老人还坐在树叶挡住灯光的阴影里。

youdao

The ship's sail cast a shadow on the water.

船帆在水面上投下一片影子。

《牛津词典》

He left the cold, black shadow of the lander and stepped into the blinding white light of the sun.

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And that's fine, because inside of curly braces can you redeclare variables with the same name if you intend to quote unquote shadow the previous variable.

那是可以的，因为,在花括号里面，你可以重新定义一个,相同名字的变量,如果你想引用之前的变量。

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Even the expulsion of Satan from heaven was not sufficient to prove beyond a shadow of a doubt the legitimate authority of God.

即使是将撒旦逐出天堂也不足以,无可置疑的证明上帝的至高权威。

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He insisted that no shadow ministers should shadow the area they covered in government.

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The result is that the electron shadow and the positron shadow are separated.

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Britain has no intention of doing this, but the euro-zoners will surely insist that the pound shadow the euro in some way.

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