| 词汇 | thesaurus_articles_to-keep-someone-or-something-from-being-seen |
| 释义 | to keep someone or something from being seenThese words all describe keeping someone or something from being seen or found by others. One of the most common words for this, and the word with the broadest meaning, is hide. Hide is often used when a person or animal tries to not be seen or found, or when someone deliberately puts something where it cannot be seen or found. I'll need to hide the sweets so the children don't find them. She hid under a blanket during the scary parts of the show. Our cat keeps hiding from us. There are two different opposites of hide. Show is used to talk about making sure that someone or something is seen by other people. Find is used to talk about discovering where someone or something is when you didn't know where they were before. He showed her the baby bird he was carrying in his hands. I can't find my keys anywhere - have you seen them? For more opposites of hide, see the article at find. If you conceal something, you hide that thing from other people so they won't know about it or see it. He did his best to conceal his true feelings from his spouse. The gun was concealed in her handbag. In formal language, when you secrete something, you put it in a place where it's not likely to be found. Secrete is often used to describe hiding things that you don't want other people finding, especially dangerous or illegal things. The spies smuggled the films out of the country by secreting them in the lining of their coats. Weapons were secreted across the border inside milk churns. Cloak is often used in a figurative way to describe hiding something from other people so they can't see what it really is or how it really works. It is often used to describe ideas, feelings, or processes. The proceedings were cloaked in secrecy. The official's desire for power was cloaked as ambition. Shroud can be used to describe hiding something behind or inside of something else. Like cloak, it can be used figuratively, especially in the phrases be shrouded in secrecy and be shrouded in mystery. The whole valley was shrouded in darkness. The cathedral's façade is shrouded in scaffolding at the moment. The whole affair was shrouded in secrecy. No one is sure how the artefacts came to be found here, far from any signs of human habitation - it is entirely shrouded in mystery. Obscure is used to describe preventing something from being seen or heard by someone else. It's often used when natural phenomena like fog or clouds hide something from view. He planted tall shrubs and trees along the carriageway to obscure the sight and sound of heavy traffic from the park. Dense fog obscured the city skyline. Mask is used when you want to keep others from noticing something that is unpleasant. It is used especially to talk about taste and smell. Vinegar masked the smell of cigarette smoke. He hoped that if he used enough custard and jam in the trifle, it might mask the slightly burnt taste of the sponge. If you paper over something, you try to hide something that is unpleasant from other people so you can trick them into believing that it doesn't exist or never happened. The university tried to paper over the financial scandals, but eventually the local press caught on. You can't just paper over that sort of nasty behaviour and then pretend everything's fine! For words related to hiding feelings, intentions, or facts about something by pretending they are something else, see the article at pretend. |
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