| 词汇 | cloaked |
| 释义 | cloaked past simple and past participle ofcloak cloak verb[ T ] uk /kləʊk/ us /kloʊk/ to cover or hide something: 掩藏，掩饰 He has always kept his love affairs cloaked in secrecy (= kept them secret).他总是隐瞒他的风流韵事。 The river is often cloaked in mist in the early morning.清晨，这条河上常常是雾霭弥漫。 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. Hiding and disguising be holed upidiom booby trap camo camouflage camouflaged cloak drown hole up (somewhere) illusion illusionistically illusively illusorily secrete shroud sidle skulk smokescreen stash stealthy tuck Examples of cloakedcloaked In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. For understandable reasons, the controversial project was cloaked in high secrecy. When we lack the clues or the wherewithal, identity remains cloaked. All this further enriches the network of associations in which the roman is cloaked. Because modern-day false images of children are cloaked in the armor of "science," they are harder to combat. A variety of cloaked and disguised hazards can intrude on the policy-making process and, in the name of justice, lead to indefensible results. The problem with aesthetic considerations was that they often cloaked arbitrariness. The production of a novel (or any textual object) is a complex process, and its very complexity is often cloaked by ideals about the solitary, unitary author. What was also apparent was that there is a need to 'popularise' linguistics and to banish the mystique with which a number of linguists have cloaked themselves. These interviews were often presented under headlines that cloaked them in a halfclandestine atmosphere, as if the readers of the paper were being let in on privileged information. They simply merged back into what was often a chaotic social cauldron in which anonymity cloaked, to the point of invisibility, those who lived a transient existence. We need to know a good deal more about what is 'cloaked' by this 'underlying attitude of bitter philosophical scepticism' and intolerance 'of all preconstituted authority'. Everything was cloaked by the dense fog. Meyerhold, on the other hand, was a name always cloaked in mist. Does he not accept that a redundancy is a redundancy however it may be cloaked and garbed by his statement? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Cuts are cloaked in the language of "efficiency"and"savings". 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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