基本词汇
n.面纱;面罩;掩饰物
vt.使戴面纱;遮蔽
vi.戴面纱
过去式: veiled 过去分词: veiled 现在分词: veiling 第三人称单数: veils
详情解释
双解释义
英英释义
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网络解释
noun
1. a garment that covers the head and face
Synonym: head covering
2. a vestment worn by a priest at High Mass in the Roman Catholic Church
a silk shawl
Synonym: humeral veil
3. the inner membrane of embryos in higher vertebrates (especially when covering the head at birth)
Synonym: caulembryonic membrane
4. a membranous covering attached to the immature fruiting body of certain mushrooms
Synonym: velum
veil的反义词
verb
1. make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing
e.g. a hidden message
a veiled threat
Synonym: obscureblot outobliteratehide
2. to obscure, or conceal with or as if with a veil
e.g. women in Afghanistan veil their faces
1. 面纱;面罩
A veil is a piece of thin soft cloth that women sometimes wear over their heads and which can also cover their face.
e.g. She's got long fair hair but she's got a veil over it...
她有一头金色的长发,但她用头巾包住了。
e.g. She swathes her face in a veil of decorative muslin.
她用装饰性的薄纱遮住了脸。
2. 掩盖物;遮蔽物
You can refer to something that hides or partly hides a situation or activity as a veil .
e.g. The country is ridding itself of its disgraced prime minister in a veil of secrecy...
这个国家暗地里正试图把失势的首相赶下台。
e.g. The chilling facts behind this veil of silence were slow to emerge.
沉默背后的骇人真相慢慢显露出来。
3. (薄雾等)幕障
You can refer to something that you can partly see through, for example a mist, as a veil.
e.g. The eruption has left a thin veil of dust in the upper atmosphere...
火山爆发在高层大气中留下了一层薄薄的尘土。
e.g. He recognized the coast of England through a veil of mist...
透过薄雾他认出了那是英格兰的海岸线。
4. 隐瞒;避而不谈
If you draw a veil over something, you stop talking about it because it is too unpleasant to talk about.
e.g. The clamour to draw a veil over the minister's extra-marital activities reeks of hypocrisy.
想要掩饰部长婚外情的喧嚣叫嚷之声让人倍感虚伪。
1. 幕幛面纱:vei) 检查 | veil 幕幛;面纱 | veil 幕幛面纱
2. 隐藏:submarine: 水下的、海底的 | veil: 隐藏 | evolve: 进化、发展
3. 翳影,模糊:Vee-thread 三角螺纹 | veil 翳影,模糊 | vein 纹理
常用例句
词汇搭配
经典引文
In this veil the men live and sleep.
出自:C. G. SeligmanHer navy hat with velvet band And net veil down.
出自:AtlanticHis robe..o'er his head Ulysses drew, behind its ample folds Veiling his face.
出自:W. CowperThe clouds..veiling the sun.
出自:A. RadcliffeThe upper windows were veiled by a coating of frost.
出自:M. de la Roche