| 单词 | conceal |
| 释义 | con·ceal 1. < confessing … things a woman ought to conceal — Thomas Hardy > 2. < it grew so thickly as to conceal the roof — Richard Jefferies > Synonyms: < Sophia had held the telegram concealed in her hand and its information concealed in her heart — Arnold Bennett > < Elizabeth was forced to conceal her lover from her father — Virginia Woolf > < politeness may conceal a legitimate wish that dare not put itself in bald speech — R.P.Blackmur > conceal may indicate any hiding or masking of any motive, from reprehensible secrecy to aesthetic improvement < conceal a murder > < conceal a scar > < concealing a scratch on a piece of furniture > < conceal a bad odor > It need not suggest covering. It often implies a certain design or artfulness. hide may differ from conceal in suggesting less conscious intent and artfulness, and hence less effectiveness, but occasionally more urgency < hidden things that had never been concealed, that had merely been dropped away into forgotten corners and out-of-the-way places — Elizabeth M. Roberts > < with these consoling words he tried to hide from her the doubt that had entered his mind — Morley Callaghan > It is less applicable than conceal to senses other than sight. bury suggests concealment in a low place by covering, especially by heaping something amorphous < loot buried under the ground > or, in more figurative senses, it suggests relegation to obscurity < I would myself be half buried in shadows and in darkness — Sherwood Anderson > secrete is likely to have an increased suggestion of highly purposive, secretive, stealthy concealment < she could scarcely … overcome the suspicion of there being many chambers secreted — Jane Austen > < and in mere sound secretes his inmost sense — Walter de la Mare > cache suggests use of storage places affording security or protection as well as concealment, sometimes in the ground. screen suggests protection or concealment from observation or danger by that which screens from a viewer's eyes < screened himself under a bush and waited — Thomas Hardy > < the idea of a woman's appealing to her family to screen her husband's business dishonor — Edith Wharton > ensconce, in this sense, implies the security of concealment in a raised or walled area < bounded into the vehicle and sat on a stool, ensconced from view — Thomas Hardy > < he ensconced the boy in a cubbyhole — Peggy Bacon > |
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