网易公开课VOA短语系列about eclipse

• solar eclipse日食
• lunar eclipse月食

some caltures believed it would be

- an sign that the world was ending.
- a battle that different animals in the sky while attempting to eat up the sun or moon.
- culture belief to deeply think about the past.

• eclipse derived from a Greek word which means
  • to leave,
  • to abandon,
  • to forsake (give up) an usual place.
  • fail to appear.
• the new product eclipsed quickly its all earlier products.(the new product has the best advantage against the earlier release)
• sth eclipsed other things盖过风头
• sb eclipsed another one盖过某人

because they do something better.

• outshining （synonyms）同义词

you are going to outshine everything you older brother has done.

• cast a shadow on sb
• live in the shadow of sb
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