veils
n. (繪畫)層式法(在白色背景上塗一層薄而透明的油色,使,背景加染色彩,並能保持光澤的效果); 面紗( veil的名詞複數 ); 掩飾; 覆蓋物; 薄薄的遮蓋層
v. 用面紗遮蓋( veil的第三人稱單數 ); 遮蓋,掩飾
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。
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。
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。
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。
It's just the Great Northwest , wearing me down, stripping off the layers like Solomon's seven veils.
只是大西北把我制服了, 剝去了一層層象所羅門七層面紗似的東西.
I wore this veil because he used to be so crazy about veils.
我帶著這個因為他常常為這個而瘋狂.
I knew at sunset I would meet the ascending veils of dread.
我知道會在黃昏見到那令人畏懼的幕布升起.
On windy days some women wear veils on the street.
有風的日子,一些女士上街時戴著面紗.
Regular order will not be less than 100 veils.
經常為了將不會少於100面紗.