obscure
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英[əb'skjʊə]
|美[əb'skjʊr]
adj.昏暗的,朦胧的;晦涩的,不清楚的;隐蔽的;不著名的,无名的
vt.使…模糊不清,掩盖;隐藏;使难理解
n.某种模糊的或不清楚的东西
日语:あいまいな
法语:obscur
德语:obskur
韩语:애매하게 하다
俄语:oscuro
牛津词典
adj.
- 无名的;鲜为人知的
not well known
- an obscure German poet
一个名不见经传的德国诗人 - He was born around 1650 but his origins remain obscure.
他生于1650年前后,但身世不详。
- 费解的;难以理解的
difficult to understand
- I found her lecture very obscure.
我觉得她的讲座非常费解。 - For some obscure reason , he failed to turn up.
他莫名其妙地没有如期露面。
verb
- 使模糊;使隐晦;使费解
to make it difficult to see, hear or understand sth
- The view was obscured by fog.
雾中景色朦胧。 - We mustn't let these minor details obscure the main issue.
我们不能让枝节问题掩盖主要问题。
词形变化
过去分词:obscured 第三人称单数:obscures 现在分词:obscuring 过去式:obscured 形容词比较级:obscurer
中文词源
obscure 使费解,模糊
来自拉丁语obscurus,黑暗的,遮盖的,来自ob-,在上,表强调,-scurus,遮盖的,来自PIE*skeu,遮盖,隐藏,词源同sky,house,hide.引申词义使费解,模糊。
双语例句
- These obscure groups were of little account in national politics.
这些名不见经传的团体在国内政界无足轻重。
- The derivation of its name is obscure
其名字的由来鲜为人知。
- His writing is so diffuse and obscure that it is difficult to make out what it is he is trying to say.
他的文章含混晦涩,让人看后不知所云。
- Rumour, myth and hearsay obscure the truth after months of bloodshed.
杀戮持续了数月后,真相在谣言、谎话和传闻的遮掩下变得模糊不清。
- The origin of the custom is obscure
这一习俗的起源鲜为人知。
- The hymn was written by an obscure Greek composer for the 1896 Athens Olympics.
这首赞歌是希腊一位名不见经传的作曲家为1896年的雅典奥运会创作的。
- The contracts are written in obscure language
这些合同的语言晦涩难懂。
- Richard's statement was disgracefully obscure.
理查德的声明隐晦费解,真是丢人。
- Trees obscured his vision; he couldn't see much of the Square's southern half
树木遮挡了他的视线,南半广场的一大部分他都无法看清。
- One wall of the parliament building is now almost completely obscured by a huge banner.
议会大楼的一面墙现在几乎被一条巨型横幅完全盖住了。
- This issue has been obscured by recent events.
最近发生的一些事件使这一问题变得混淆不清。
- The cold breeze moved through the bushes around him, whispering just loud enough to obscure the chanting
冷飕飕的风吹动着他周边的矮树丛,沙沙声刚好盖过了吟唱的声音。
- There are more obscure poems written and printed every year than clear ones.
每年创作和发表的诗篇,含蓄不露的比明朗的多。
- The meaning is still obscure to me.
我对这意义还很模糊。
- Your ideas seem very obscure to me.
你的观点很叫我费解。
- The bus stopped at an obscure little town.
公共汽车停在一个不知名的小城里。
- The room is too obscure for reading.
这房间太昏暗了,无法看书。
- The point of his speech is obscure.
他发言的要点模糊不清。
- Don't allow one error to obscure great merits.
不以一眚掩大德。
- There are many minor and obscure poets in the age of elizabeth.
伊丽莎白时代有许多不知名的诗人。
- Dictionaries are still good for obscure usages and etymologies.
字典依然擅长于不常用的用法和词源。
- This feature uses an obscure aspect of the C language to simplify the specification of message level or priority.
这个特性使用了C语言的一种模糊方面来简化消息级别和优先级的规范。
- Unfortunately, this isn't ideal because it involves fairly obscure knowledge and lots of defensive system administration.
遗憾地是,这并不是理想的方法,因为它涉及相当模糊的知识和大量防御系统管理工作。
- I had only an obscure view of it.
对这事我仅有一种模糊的想法。
- Our knowledge is fairly obscure and extremely limited to this one new social group.
对这样一个新的社会群体,我们的认识都是比较模糊和极其有限的。
- Who masked his hatred of Germans behind his obscure pseudo-sciences.
把他对德国人的憎恨隐藏在了他所谓的科学中。
- An explanation or definition of an obscure word in a text.
对文本中生僻词的解释或定义。
- Her poetry is full of obscure literary allusions.
他的诗里用了很多晦涩的文学典故。
- Explained the difficult words and obscure symbols;
解释那些难懂的词和难解的符号;
- Hopes which obscure, but cannot do thee wrong!
它们遮掩了你,但不会对你不公!
语源
late Middle English: from Old French obscur, from Latin obscurusdark, from an Indo-European root meaning cover