English Dictionary

shine

/ʃaɪn/

verb

(intransitive, copulative) To emit or reflect light so as to glow. / (intransitive, copulative) To reflect light. / (intransitive, copulative) To distinguish oneself; to excel.

The sun will shine brightly tomorrow.

意味（1）

(intransitive, copulative) 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.

意味（2）

(intransitive, copulative) To reflect light.

意味（3）

(intransitive, copulative) To distinguish oneself; to excel.

[…] I was grateful to you for giving him a year’s schooling—where he shined at it—and for putting him as a clerk in your counting-house, where he shined still more.

意味（4）

(intransitive, copulative) To be effulgent in splendour or beauty.

So proud she shyned in her Princely state.

意味（5）

(intransitive, copulative) 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.

意味（6）

(intransitive, copulative) To be immediately apparent.

意味（7）

(transitive) To create light with (a flashlight, lamp, torch, or similar).

As Jenks shined the large spotlight on the water, he saw a few bubbles and four long wakes leading away from an expanding circle of blood.

意味（8）

(transitive) To cause to shine, as a light or by reflected light.

He [God] doth not rain wealth, nor shine honour and virtues, upon men equally.