veil的中文翻译是什么意思
veil
n. 面纱; 掩饰; 覆盖物; 托词
vt. 用面纱遮盖; 掩饰; 用帷幕分隔; 隐匿
veil的柯林斯释义
N-COUNT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.
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。
She swathes her face in a veil of decorative muslin.
她用装饰性的薄纱遮住了脸。
N-COUNT掩盖物;遮蔽物
You can refer to something that hides or partly hides a situation or activity as a veil .
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。
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。
N-COUNT（薄雾等）幕障
You can refer to something that you can partly see through, for example a mist, as a veil.
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。
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。
PHRASE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.
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。
veil的英文释义
Noun
1. a garment that covers the head and face
2. the inner embryonic membrane of higher vertebrates (especially when covering the head at birth)
3. a vestment worn by a priest at High Mass in the Roman Catholic Church; a silk shawl
Verb
1. to obscure, or conceal with or as if with a veil;
- women in Afghanistan veil their faces
2. make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing;
- a hidden message
- a veiled threat
veil的短语
beyond the veil
死后未知世界
draw a veil over
避而不谈；隐瞒
take the veil
当修女
veil的场景例句
She raised her veil.
她掀起面罩.
A battle is a veil through which it is not wise to peer.
战役是一层面纱,透过它盯着看是不明智的.
The top of his head is the veil line crossing Mona Lisa's forehead.
他的头顶正好是蒙娜·丽莎前额的面纱边线.
Unfortunately, the details of his theory are often kept in veil.
不幸的是, 他的大部分理论都被遮掩在厚厚的面纱之后.
Moslem women used to veil their faces before going into public.
信奉伊斯兰教的妇女出门之前往往用面纱把脸遮起来.