| 词汇 | adumbrate |
| 释义 | adumbrate verb[ T ] formaluk /ˈæd.əm.breɪt/ us /ˈæd.əm.breɪt/ to give only the main facts and not the details about something, especially something that will happen in the future: （尤指对未来的事情）概括说明，勾画轮廓 The project's objectives were adumbrated in the report.报告简述了该计划的目标。 Defining & explaining account (to someone) for something accountability adumbration annotation annotator belabour demythologize disabuse extenuate indefinably indescribably inexpressibly justificatory lay something out outline sketch spell trace walk through something what is he, are they, etc. like?idiom Related wordadumbration Examples of adumbrateadumbrate I shall adumbrate below some of the listener's problems in identifying the pitch-class or interval sequence that forms the row. It differs from studies of ideal honour as adumbrated in conduct books and exhortations (for example in the pulpit, or from father to son). The conclusion rests on several presumptions, all of them adumbrated in the earlier chapters but here arrayed in support of the hypothesis. On the other, it adumbrates a remedy for the troubles by which mankind as a whole must otherwise remain afflicted. The two spatial reorganizations exemplified two major state-led projects of modernity adumbrating a specific course of the national development of the time. The interpretation of these political divisions offered here is not new, having been briefly adumbrated in earlier publications of the author. The challenges adumbrated in the course of the discussion would fall from view. And while the possible bases of such constructions can only be adumbrated within the space of a short article, it is nonetheless instructive to examine some hypotheses. Stavrides rehearses exhaustively, as elsewhere in the volume, the various theories adumbrated in primary and secondary sources. Recent history adumbrates the current danger. Happiness, moreover, is to be understood - in a way already adumbrated in 1776 but now greatly elaborated - in terms of the balance of pleasure over pain. I do not want to adumbrate this point at greater length. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 And so you got the majority in 1951, and without any real constructive political policy ever having been adumbrated in advance. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 On the policy he has adumbrated and supported this afternoon, is that to be a minimum amount for the future? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Nothing useful can be said until the negotiations which are adumbrated in paragraph 26 have gone a little further. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 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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