Meanings (ES + gloss)
brillar • lucir
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…
‘No. I only opened the door a foot and put my head in. The street lamps shine into that room. I could see him. He was all right. Sleeping like a great grampus. Poor, poor chap.’
brillar • sobresalir
To distinguish oneself; to excel.
My nephew tried other sports before deciding on football, which he shone at right away, quickly becoming the star of his school team.
“[…] 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.”
alumbrar
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.
I shone my light into the darkness to see what was making the noise.
Phrases
beshinefix the roof while the sun is shiningknight in shining armorknight in shining armouroutshinerise and shinesea to shining seashine a light onshine down onshine down uponshine light onshine offshine onshine throughshine upshinershining firmossshining onesshining tubeshoulderwhere the sun doesn't shinewhere the sun don't shine