veil的意思

基本释义

• n 面纱；面罩；遮蔽物；托词

  a thin piece of material that women wear to cover their faces at formal occasions or for religious reasons

• v 遮蔽；掩饰；以面纱遮掩；用帷幕分隔

  to cover something with a veil

例句

1. She lifted her veil with both hands.

   她用双手揭开面纱。

2. a bridal veil

   新娘的面纱

3. She dropped her veil.

   她摘下面纱。

4. The veil she was wearing obscured her features.

   她戴的面纱遮掩了她的面容。

5. Everything was wrapped in a veil of evening light.

   一切都在夜幕的笼罩之下。 (

6. 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。

短语

• under the veil of 以…为借口

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英英释义

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

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