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词汇 mask
释义 mask
noun[ C ]
uk /mɑːsk/ us /mæsk/

masknoun[C] (FACE COVER)


B2
a covering for all or part of the face that protects, hides, or decorates the person wearing it: 面具,面罩
a gas mask防毒面具
a surgical mask外科手术口罩
Masks were compulsory on public transport for health reasons.
The bank robbers wore masks throughout the raid.劫匪抢劫银行过程中始终戴着面罩。
 
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You'll frighten the baby wearing that mask.你戴那个面具会吓着宝宝的。
The mask was so lifelike it was quite frightening.这个面具如此惟妙惟肖,还真是吓人。
We had to wear a protective mask and goggles.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Hats & scarves
ascot
balaclava
bandana
baseball cap
beanie
dicky bow
do-rag
driving cap
dunce's cap
dupatta
millinery
mitre
mortarboard
neckerchief
necktie
trencher
trilby
tuque
turban
undress

masknoun[C] (SKIN TREATMENT)


a cream or a piece of thin material that is left on the skin for some time and then removed, in order to make the skin look and feel better:
This mask quickly absorbs excess oil and leaves skin soft and clean.
If you feel like spoiling your skin, you can try a foot mask.
See also
face mask
hair mask
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Make-up & skin care
aha
alpha-hydroxy acid
anti-wrinkle
argan oil
au naturel
barefaced
gloss
greasepaint
liner
lip liner
lipsalve
lipstick
made up
mascaraed
mattify
mudpack
suntan lotion
toner
wand
warpaint

masknoun[C] (HIDING TRUTH)


appearance or behaviour that hides the truth: 掩饰;伪装
The newspaper revealed the sordid truth behind his mask of respectability.报纸揭露了他体面外表下龌龊肮脏的真实嘴脸。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Faking & pretending
affect
air guitar
assume
believe
bluff someone into something/doing something
changeling
cry
faker
false
false modesty
falsifiable
falsify
pass something off as something
phoney
phony-baloney
play-act
play-acting
professed
purport
quack

masknoun[C] (OF ANIMAL)


an area around the eyes of an animal or bird that is a different colour to the rest of its face:
The bird has a yellow face with a dark mask.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

The head & face
-cheeked
-chinned
baby face
baby-faced
brow
bull neck
cheek
forehead
jaw
masseteric
mastoid
maxilla
maxillary
maxillofacial
temporal
visage
wattle
weak-chinned
zygoma
zygomatic

Idiom


someone's mask slips
mask
verb[ T ]
uk /mɑːsk/ us /mæsk/
to prevent something from being seen or noticed: 掩饰;掩盖;遮蔽
I've put some flowers in there to mask the smell.我在那儿放了一些花来遮住那种味道。
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

to keep someone or something from being seen
hideI'll need to hide the sweets so the children don't find them.
concealHe did his best to conceal his true feelings from his spouse.
secreteThe spies smuggled the films out of the country by secreting them in the lining of their coats.
cloakThe proceedings were cloaked in secrecy.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Hiding and disguising
be holed upidiom
booby trap
camo
camouflaged
cloak
drown
fig leaf
hit the deckidiom
hole up (somewhere)
illusion
illusionistically
illusively
lurk
secrete
shroud
shut someone/something out
sidle
skulk
smokescreen
stash

Phrasal verb


mask up

mask | American Dictionary


mask
noun[ C ]
us/mæsk/
a covering for all or part of the face, worn for protection or to hide the face:
a gas mask
an exhibit of African masks
The children all wore Halloween masks that were supposed to frighten us.
mask
verb[ T ]
us/mæsk/
to prevent something from being seen or noticed:
The tastelessness of the meat was masked by a heavy gravy.

Examples of mask


mask
The attitude towards masks is another example; in different areas of the state they are viewed in completely different manner.
Furthermore, the general improvement in levels of imperial trade masked important regional variations between overseas territories and within individual colonies.
Further, the identities were masked - that is, judges were not provided with information regarding the authorship of a summary and of questions.
Cereal yields, as indicators of output, fluctuated over the period of the trial, masking any possible long-term change.
Thus, the masking effect of a wild-type allele does not appear to be very strong when weakly deleterious mutations are considered.
Websites directed at consumers can incorporate such data by masking quizzes as entertainment and offering incentives such as free merchandise.
The resounding presence of her voice masks a deeper lack: she comes from nothing and disappears into thin air.
Male movie masks primarily deny physical ageing or diminished dominance ; the ever-young interior subjective becomes (or strives to become) the exterior.
The sides of the chambers were masked with black tape so that only light from above reached the eyecups.
Even when the fundamental frequency is masked, it may be recovered from the pulse period and the surviving harmonics.
In 4 of the patients, the presence of atrioventricular block was initially masked by the pre-excitation.
Interactions of group by forward versus backward masking were not significant, suggesting that deficits in forward and backward masking were comparable.
If this attentional component becomes less robust with age, it would contribute to a steeper decline with age for backward, as compared to forward, masking.
Two of the masking conditions showed increased rates of decline in backward, compared to forward, masking.
Green et al. (1999) related visual backward masking deficits in patients with schizophrenia to a failure to establish cortical oscillations in the gamma range.
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Collocations withmask


mask

These are words often used in combination with mask.

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black mask
He wears a blackmask over his head with slits for eyeholes.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
diving mask
The swimmer uses swimfins, a diving mask, weights, and diving regulator as in scuba diving.
From
Wikipedia

This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
dust mask
Three-element compounds such as air traffic control and rubber dust mask are symmetrical in that they consist entirely of free-standing lexemes (as well as nouns).
These 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.
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