| 词汇 | example_english_obscure |
| 释义 | Examples of obscureThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. The trials, too, which came and went, give the impression of a ' rise ' and then a ' decline ' of magic, obscuring its perennial and persistent nature. To just lump them under an umbrella label of ' borrowing ' or ' calquing ' is an oversimplification which obscures the different possible historical scenarios for each case. Thus, experimental effects on a highly sensitive and reliable measure may be obscured by averaging with less precise measures. The former gave way to the system of recursive rewrite rules in the 1960s, obscuring the formal similarity of the two processes. Such an apparently decisive choice of collective identity obscures the undercurrents of ideological struggle in the region. Hence, although this view is a fundamental one of which experienced topos theorists are fully aware, it tends to get obscured in the exposition. The sustained attention of constitutional scholars to constraints on state legislatures has obscured the ways delegates to constitutional conventions affirmed the prerogatives of the states. However, this sectoral diversity obscures some politically salient concentrations. He brings a magnifying glass to the complexities obscured by existing models. Coverage has remained stable but this obscures a narrowing gender gap in coverage. In realistic programs the algorithm can become entirely obscured by the dynamic-behaviour code. Afterwards, it became a process that obscured the line between music and 'otherness'. If an intrusive consonant is underlyingly present, it must be a final element, the presence of which is obscured in certain environments due to vocalisation. Stating meaning in any other way obscures it. The reported sectoral pattern thus obscures inherent deviations. To begin with, the use of probabilistic laws to describe sound changes is unhelpful in that it obscures the relationship between synchrony and diachrony. The problem in this case was that they looked at overall frequencies, combining all verbs, which may have obscured some of the lexically specific relationships. Obstruction to pulmonary venous return obscured by decreased pulmonary blood flow. The surfaces of the pendant are obscured both by oxidisation and by a modern sealant applied by the finder. In fact, interspecific size difference could be completely obscured by geographical variation. The evidence marshalled is fascinating and various, but the thrust of the argument is to some extent obscured, which is a pity. Most of the facies buccalis is obscured by matrix. The upper and lower parts of some fissure fills were also obscured by quarry scree. Furthermore, such approximate methods may help to elucidate the main nonlinear mechanism governing the phenomenon which might be obscured by numerical solutions. Evolutionary modification of the net transposition rate therefore obscures the mating system differences in element number outlined above. The right side is obscured by the matrix, which is reinforced by a material resembling car body filler. The use of tribal categories has obscured the tensions and differences within societies as well as the fluidity of inter-tribal boundaries. Until this adjustment is made the relationship of costs to these setting factors is obscured and statistically insignificant. By keeping these factors in mind, potentially important distinctions remain open to enquiry and are less likely to be obscured. The book's exclusive reliance on texts obscures some important facts. Focusing on change in hearing without adjusting f or baseline threshold obscures an effect of the absolute level of hearing on outcome. By this mixing operation, what was obscured was not the letters themselves, as in systems of substitution, but rather the connection between them. The elementary truth is obscured by their talk of a decreasing marginal value of an extra unit of pleasure. Readings were taken at 1-m intervals along each transect when the sun was obscured by continuous cloud cover or near the horizon. Where readings within 0.5 m of the sampling point were obscured by trees or fallen logs, the point was recorded as missing data. Partly as a result, other themes have been neglected or obscured. Richards points out that while the commodified object obscures its own history and origins, the museum provides such information on labels or in catalogs (60). The traditional division of the novel into two plots thus obscures key links between the domestic and the political. Subjects "shadowed" speech that was partially obscured by multispeaker babble. Like all charts, this one illuminates some points and obscures others. The pattern of dark and light coloration, so conspicuous in the young adult, is obscured and finally hidden. Such voices can be wilfully obscured by those who prefer not to hear them, but they cannot be kept silent forever. The voice may be fainter now, the call obscured by the bureaucracy, power politics, the sheer frustration which has intervened since that time. Equally, we cannot ignore the fact that the final fatal shootings occurred after nightfall obscured clarity still further. Any music carries with it claims for various traditions and legacies; it foregrounds certain influences and, just as importantly, obscures others. In animic systems the real relations of production are obscured by cultural meanings. As no medieval plaggen soil obscured the prehistoric landscape, this seemed to indicate that it had not been inhabited densely. One is that the stories and scenarios were each analysed separately, which may have obscured similarities in the crossover structures in the two sets. The structure and organization of the basic site report obscures agency by its very organization. The very tiny and dense tuberculated ornamentation on the external side of the skull roof obscures bone sutures. Far from obscuring the conceptual scheme, the notational scheme clari®es it wonderfully, as every formalism always does in science. A dominating southern nationalist interest represented the revolutionary political elite's realpolitik after 1920, though its pan-nationalist rhetoric obscured this. Walter does clearly summarize his thread on occasion, but often his argument is obscured or understated. Too often the spectrum of theological parties in the early twentieth century has been obscured by an oversimplified conservative-liberal dichotomy. The timespecific scale score may simply be obscuring important issues of measurement invariance over time. In these patients, fast retrograde conduction occurred through both the accessory pathway and atrioventricular node, obscuring differentiation of the two pathways. Consumers, care management and inspection : obscuring social deprivation and need. Pine-duff and oak-leaf litter sometimes obscured the ground sur face. However, that a confounding "stress" factor obscures the interpretation of an experimental result does not mean the theory need be abandoned. Additionally, the gradual diffusion of target-appropriate realizations has the further consequence of obscuring any presumed systematic relationship between the child's productions and the target system. Also, dependence on morphological criteria obscures the relevance of mood (not necessarily expressed morphologically), which is argued for here. A number of putative properties are suggested, some of which are invisible or completely obscured from a macroscopic viewpoint. Ironically, 'curating' the skeletal fragments they discovered only further obscured their locations. Often the appeal to national pride was too successful, with scientific objects obscured or reduced to an afterthought. The major disadvantage of the single frequency ' 2+1 ' method is that the desired dipolar oscillation may be obscured by hyperfine modulation artifacts. The mapping between the two may be obscured by other synchronic and diachronic factors yet to be identified. Given that mathematical notation usually obscures more than it reveals to non-mathematicians, the models also will be described in words. Extracting the consonants obscures information about clusters in the base form, since the result is simply a string of consonants. The insensitive phonetic transcription by previous researchers has therefore obscured a tonal distinction in the language. Perhaps more importantly, this way of construing unobservability obscures a crucial fact about the actual world. In particular, it obscures the fact that autonomy is both aspectual and comparative. Rather, some researchers viewed diffusion as a sort of noise that obscured the initiatives of progressive governors. As an expository device, the only problem with pure string reduction is that it obscures the full laziness of graph reduction. They may feel that excessive factoring down obscures the wood behind a thicket of trees. However, the true state of the world was obscured. However, as already indicated, a gap in the lexical inventory could indeed have obscured the hypothesized contingency. Extensions to more general walks are easily possible but involve more technical descriptions that might have obscured the exposition. Occasionally, a lack of clarity in the writing obscures the point being made. However, it must be kept in mind that this view of the data obscures the critical humanness factor. I am concerned that such a moral distinction is obscured in this nobly intended quest to provide whatever success we can find for our child. The anteriormost part of the neurocranium is obscured by the overlying maxilla, and the mor phology of the vomer cannot be observed. Unfortunately, the mechanism for thrust initiation is obscured due to high temperature recrystallization. The subaerial headwall scarp is covered by younger lavas, obscuring the exact location and dimension of the collapse structure. The notion of professionalization also obscures a second set of problems. Her work raises once again the question of how women may have responded to the fictional strategies that romanticized and obscured their social oppression. The ideal of scientific objectivity is a historically specific epistemic prejudice that obscures its own historical ground. The picture is obscured by the different public and private agencies seeking to divest themselves of the burden by distributing costs between one another. Differences at the lower end of the scale are obscured by the massive differences at the top end. The importance of boredom and aimlessness is very much obscured by most popular treatments of police work, whether in fictional or in documentary style. At the same time, while this arrangement helps to define ideal types, it also runs the risk of obscuring what the debate is really about. Rather than further non-dimensionalizing the evolution equations, we leave them as they are so that the results of the analysis are not obscured. The needs of subsistence production explain why a production-centred view of this family obscures the truth about the way it functioned. Thus, they helped to shape notions of consensus by defining limits of inclusion within mainstream politics and obscuring divisions within it. The framing of the book around each film means that the broader objectives of the project are sometimes obscured. They provide uniform frameworks to identify differences and similarities that would otherwise be obscured. Any categorisation of chronological age obscures the physiological, psychological and social diversity of older people. The funding incentive is only one tool for promoting such long-term goals, however, and its effects may be obscured by other major current policy initiatives. Such a categorization obscures the fact that many deposits contain elements characteristic of both and cannot be so clearly divided. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. 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