| 词汇 | example_english_cloak |
| 释义 | Examples of cloakThese 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. Audiences, after all, paid to watch kings and princes perform on the stage and to watch boys don the personae and - literally - the cloaks of majesty. More signicant was what the gift of cloaks symbolized: the restitution of respect and honor to the father-in-law lost by the son-in-law's immodest behavior and his deance of elders. Nobles wore elaborately adorned cloaks made of maguey as well as cotton, and decoration was as impor tant as the type of cloth in terms of social distinctions. The discourse on literacy thus both ruptures the pre-war gender system at the same time that it cloaks these ruptures in the service of restoring the gender statusquo. 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. 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. Everything was cloaked by the dense fog. Our fears have allowed the doctors to act with imperious authority, cloaking their lack of knowledge in our greater ignorance. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 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 People outside realise that there is a wholesale traffic, and no amount of cloaking it is going to be of any advantage. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The profession has been extremely successful in cloaking itself in an expensive mystique. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Alcoholism is perhaps the only addiction—smoking may be the other—for which society has devised elaborate disguises and cloaks of social acceptability. 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 The whole problem has been cloaked in mystery. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am not going to discuss the verbal camouflage which cloaks the nuclear armoury. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They believe that burdens are being placed on them and that the matter is "cloaked in secrecy", to use their words. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They will have to be cloaked in concrete for hundreds of years, and monitored and watched for as long. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Many people felt that these were cloaks under which a variety of origins could be hidden. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 You cannot put all the pedestrians into white cloaks. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 How is it possible to peg the price of nurses' cloaks when every-else made from wool has rocketed up in price? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I say that, first, because the mildness of the winter cloaks the real unemployment situation and, second, because the underlying trend is still adverse. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I say that, first, because the mildness of the winter cloaks the real unemployment situation and, second, because the underlying trend is still averse. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In that atmosphere repressive legislation, cloaking impulsion into the sanctity of contracts, might well be passed. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is he asking that the authority should be merely a talking shop, capable of expressing opinion, or that it should be cloaked with executive powers? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is not election an act of authority cloaked in the appearance of democracy? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 His formidable power has always been cloaked by a deep and genuine personal kindness. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Indeed, there are no more powerful lobbyists than those cloaked in ermine and bedecked with coronets. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 To call it a voting system is cloaking it with an authenticity that it clearly will not have. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is it not a fact that some of these so-called humanitarian missions are merely cloaks for political propaganda? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They can also use cloaks or capes from the stocks of the hospital authorities. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They should cut out the party games and leave in the wardrobe the cloaks of deceit which they wear. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Cloaking the issue in the alibi of legal immunity of a head of state is bogus. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Lastly, in view of the substantial rise in the price of wool, why has it been found possible to peg the prices of nurses' cloaks? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Any politician should be cautious about cloaking himself in righteousness. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The circumstances of this death and suffering are disturbing and alarming and are cloaked in some secrecy and mystery. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He cloaks his design under a veil of fine sentiments, eloquently delivered. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 His origins are cloaked in secrecy and even deception. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The commissioner will be cloaked with strong powers. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not understand why such a decision must be cloaked in secrecy. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The closures are piecemeal and cloaked in secrecy. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What the motion is about—what it cloaks—is a simple issue of fair play. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The service has not always been cloaked in secrecy. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is it not ridiculous that this type of thing should be cloaked in secrecy when there is nothing to be gained by that? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The rhetoric of liberalisation too frequently cloaks policies toward the single market that are dancing to the tune of monopolistically inclined interests of vast corporations. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English All experience tells me that devaluation is indistinguishable from inflation, however it may be cloaked with words. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is the danger of cloaking the reality of need that exists, and that is perhaps the greatest crime of all in these proposals. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What is he doing about migration from the areas of high unemployment, which is a means of cloaking the real impact? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Films are similarly used, and half-truths and misleading statements cloaked in cunningly constructed phraseology prevail. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The reason is that it is cloaked in secrecy. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am grateful for the opportunity to raise this subject on a day which is cloaked by somewhat more widely publicised events. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I regard that as an unsatisfactory and untenable position which is made the more unsatisfactory by being cloaked in secrecy. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 All this is cloaked by talk about "accountability" and the importance of the local population being involved in decision-making, presumably through their duly elected representatives. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 No side of this scheme should be cloaked up. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 When it wants to do something really evil, it always dresses itself up in the cloaks of virtue. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In those days, the master spinner himself was cloaked in anonymity—well, for a few hours any way. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 People were much more concerned about hiding it, cloaking it up. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If a thing is wrong under the age of sixteen how can it become right if it is cloaked by a marriage? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 All those responses have been cloaked in secrecy. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am grateful for the opportunity to raise an immensely important subject which has been largely ignored and which in some respects has been cloaked in secrecy. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I woke up one morning to find that two or three of the men's cloaks had been thrown over me because the rain had come on. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They have clouded and cloaked most of their plans in the last refuge of scoundrels—the constant claim that they are the only patriots in the country. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The exercise has been presented as a way to widen business opportunity, whereas it cloaks a crude political device to justify deregulation, particularly of health and safety legislation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Why this cloaking in obscurity? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Much of it is cloaked in mystery. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I suppose that every now and again we hear or read a phrase which has a peculiar ring of truth, even though it is cloaked in some fantastic guise. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The old protectionist agenda cloaks it in its historical role. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Politicians often seem to envelop themselves in stealth and radar cloaking devices to avoid having to make a clear decision and to allow them to pass the buck. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The case was cloaked in such secrecy that, when the story leaked out from the hospital, it took months for any real details to filter through. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I hope that such a unit will be quite open about new dangers, for this is not a subject to be cloaked in official or police secrecy. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Here, as so often, sanctimoniousness cloaks party political necessity. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In some ways there is a degree of opportunism from certain people who would like to go down that route, cloaked in an argument about legal principle. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Today, the smoothness, the oiliness and the plausibility are still there, and seldom can such oiliness and plausibility have cloaked such a dangerous constitutional doctrine as he was putting forward. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 My support for fluoridation cloaks no sinister designs on personal liberties. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 How is it possible, when such substantial increases are being made in the manufacturers' maximum prices of nurses' dresses, to peg the price of nurses' cloaks? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 How happy now they are to come forward with the details of the cost of their proposals which they very carefully cloaked from the electorate throughout the election campaign! From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Many things can be cloaked in modernism. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English I would certainly support any changes which are made with a view to preventing the illegal régime cloaking itself and its actions with any appearance of legality. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He used the word "cloaked" in democracy. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 She used to work in a gentleman's club, before she ran away, as a servant who carried their cloaks. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Navajo textiles were originally utilitarian blankets for use as cloaks, dresses, saddle blankets, and similar purposes. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. On ceremonial occasions they wear snakeskin headdresses or cloaks. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Cloaking information in secrecy may make it seem more valuable to journalists, and anonymity reduces the ability of others to cross-check or discredit the information. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Officers also frequently wear reflective waterproof jackets, which have replaced the old greatcoats and cloaks traditionally worn in inclement weather. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Verdenal and his life remain cloaked in obscurity; the little we do know comes mainly from interviews with family members and several surviving letters. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Senior commanders are known to have worn white cloaks and plumes. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. The school was extended prior to 1878 a bay being added at each end, extending the boys cloaks and with a whole infant wing added. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. By cloaking their decision in pseudo-scientific jargon, they hide their bias for better-known (read: blockbuster) movies. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Nevertheless, traditional obstacles to their social equality keep resurfacing, albeit cloaked by customary or religious rituals. All these strategems may make corporatist arrangements a façade which cloaks the successful pursuit of their own interests by state elites in key policy arenas. On the day of a local fair, his establishment was used by a number of people to store their cloaks and coats. Once the rain had ceased, red cloaks were placed on the statues in order to invite the sun to return. There is nothing in the history of the 1920s and 1930s to justify the cosy nostalgia that is now cloaked around the pre-war years. The first language we hear may well be cloaked in song. All this further enriches the network of associations in which the roman is cloaked. His vision leads him to seek a saviour that he finds in the proletariat, albeit heavily cloaked in" ideology". Because modern-day false images of children are cloaked in the armor of "science," they are harder to combat. By appropriating the music of his enemy, he cloaks his subterfuge in flattery. The problem with aesthetic considerations was that they often cloaked arbitrariness. 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 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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