veil的中文翻譯是什麼意思
veil
n. 面紗; 掩飾; 覆蓋物; 託詞
vt. 用面紗遮蓋; 掩飾; 用帷幕分隔; 隱匿
veil的柯林斯釋義
N-COUNT面紗;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...
她有一頭金色的長髮，但她用頭巾包住了。
She swathes her face in a veil of decorative muslin.
她用裝飾性的薄紗遮住了臉。
N-COUNT掩蓋物;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...
這個國家暗地裡正試圖把失勢的首相趕下臺。
The chilling facts behind this veil of silence were slow to emerge.
沉默背後的駭人真相慢慢顯露出來。
N-COUNT（薄霧等）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...
火山爆發在高層大氣中留下了一層薄薄的塵土。
He recognized the coast of England through a veil of mist...
透過薄霧他認出了那是英格蘭的海岸線。
PHRASE隱瞞;避而不談
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.
想要掩飾部長婚外情的喧囂叫嚷之聲讓人倍感虛偽。
veil的英文釋義
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的短語
beyond the veil
死後未知世界
draw a veil over
避而不談；隱瞞
take the veil
當修女
veil的場景例句
She raised her veil.
她掀起面罩.
A battle is a veil through which it is not wise to peer.
戰役是一層面紗,透過它盯著看是不明智的.
The top of his head is the veil line crossing Mona Lisa's forehead.
他的頭頂正好是蒙娜·麗莎前額的面紗邊線.
Unfortunately, the details of his theory are often kept in veil.
不幸的是, 他的大部分理論都被遮掩在厚厚的面紗之後.
Moslem women used to veil their faces before going into public.
信奉伊斯蘭教的婦女出門之前往往用面紗把臉遮起來.