| 词汇 | revelation |
| 释义 | revelation noun[ C or U ] uk /ˌrev.əˈleɪ.ʃən/ us /ˌrev.əˈleɪ.ʃən/ C2 the act of making something known that was secret, or a fact that is made known: 暴露;被揭示的真相，被揭露的内情 a moment of revelation真相大白的一刻 [ + that ]His wife divorced him after the revelation that he was having an affair.他的婚外情暴露后，他的妻子和他离了婚。 Shocking revelations about their private life appeared in the papers.有关他们私生活的惊人内幕见诸报端。 come as/be a revelation C2 to be an extremely pleasant surprise: 让人大开眼界；令人耳目一新；出乎意料地使人惊喜 This book came as a complete revelation to me.这本书使我茅塞顿开。 Revealing secrets & becoming known anti-secrecy backchannel bare bare your heart/soulidiom blow someone's coveridiom blow/take the lid off somethingidiom declassify divulge hold huddle kiss put the word outidiom rat rat on someone/something reintroduce revealingly state's evidence surface tip unravel You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Surprising and shocking revelation | American Dictionaryrevelation noun[ C/U ] us/ˌrev·əˈleɪ·ʃən/ the act of making known something that was secret, or a fact that has been made known: [ C ]The first planet discovered around an ordinary star was a strange and unexpected revelation. Examples of revelationrevelation Their chances of winning increase as the chance of the incumbents' re-election decreases, so the opposition benefits from revelations of corruption involving incumbents. However productive chemistry might prove in an applied sense, chemists declared their dependence on nature for any truthful revelations. His diaries do not contain any secret revelations. Private revelations need only impact the brain ; public experiences may be accomplished by the same feat (in each observer), or by an actual outside-the-head event. Personal mental revelations need only arrange for small electrical disturbances in the brain, perhaps through latent chemical imbalances. There are a few revelations, but too many disappointments. The selected letters are full of revelations and insights such as this. As to the revelations themselves, we leave the public to place what reliance upon them they please. Referring to the believer's psyche will not provide adequate grounds for making normative claims of the sort required (namely, that a proposition expresses revelation's ' essential nature '). The importance of natural processes in any human activity cannot be denied, and their simultaneous simplicity and complexity continually yield revelations with regard to the nature of 'creativity' and form. Although the extent of these deceptions may never be fully understood, the revelations of his sketchy past make one wonder about the veracity of his statements about his collection. In 1956 theatre directors and publishers were counting on the emergence of manuscripts full of revelations - plays, novels, poems written during the preceding years 'for the bottom drawer'. The first was the reaction to the syphilis study revelations and the gradual expression of the human research ethics framework with which we have become familiar. Domestic servants testified about their intimate knowledge of their employers' personal lives, and, in so doing, provided the raw material for the courtroom revelations reported in detail by the press. Without doubt, the greatest gains of considering our activities as if they were a business have been the revelations that resulted directly from our different perspective of the department. See all examples of revelation 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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