veil
英 [veɪl] 美 [vel]

n.

面纱；掩饰；覆盖物；托词

vt.

用面纱遮盖；掩饰；用帷幕分隔；隐匿

变形

复数：veils过去式：veiled过去分词：veiled现在分词：veiling第三人称单数：veils

双语释义

n.(名词)

1. [C] 面纱 a covering of thin material or net worn over the face
2. [S] 覆盖物 sth that covers or hides

v.(动词)

1. vt. 用面纱遮盖 cover with a veil

英英释义

veil[ veil ]

• n.
  • a garment that covers the head and face

    同义词：head covering

  • the inner membrane of embryos in higher vertebrates (especially when covering the head at birth)

    同义词：caulembryonic membrane

  • a vestment worn by a priest at High Mass in the Roman Catholic Church; a silk shawl

    同义词：humeral veil

• v.
  • to obscure, or conceal with or as if with a veil

    "women in Afghanistan veil their faces"

  • make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing

    "a veiled threat"

    同义词：obscureblot outobliteratehide

词汇搭配

用作名词 (n.)形容词+～

• bridal veil新娘面纱

～+介词

• a veil of mist一层薄雾

词组短语

under the veil of以…为借口

双语例句

用作名词(n.)

1. The bride's face was covered in a white veil.
   新娘的脸上蒙著白色的面纱。
2. Most Moslem women wear veils in public places.
   大多数穆斯林妇女在公共场所都戴着面纱。
3. Rochester assures her it is only a bad dream, but in the morning Jane finds the ripped fragments of the veil.
   罗切斯特安慰她说这只是一个恶梦，但清晨简却发现了被撕破的婚纱碎片。
4. Her face was buried behind a veil.
   她的脸被面罩遮起来了。
5. He deceived them under the veil of charity.
   他借慈善事业为名欺骗了他们。

用作及物动词(vt.)

1. The women there used to veil their faces in public.
   那里的妇女过去在公共场合通常戴面纱。
2. He tried to veil his contempt at my ignorance.
   他试图掩饰对我的无知的蔑视。
3. He could hardly veil his contempt at my ignorance.
   他掩盖不住对我无知的轻蔑之情。

用作不及物动词(vi.)

1. The women there used to veil their faces in public.
   那里的妇女过去在公共场合通常戴面纱。
2. A Muslim teaching assistant sacked for wearing a veil in class has decided to appeal against her dismissal.
   穆斯林戴面纱被解职助教上课已决定上诉她解雇。

权威例句

Veil: Modesty, Privacy and Resistamce
Beyond the Veil-Male-Female Dynamics in Modern Muslim Society
Vattikuti Institute Prostatectomy: Veil of Aphrodite Nerve-sparing Technique
Dreiser's Anti-Corporate Tools: Veil-Piercing and the Novel of Corporate Agency
Microbial fuel cells based on carbon veil electrodes: Stack configuration and scalability
The experience of Alzheimer's disease : life through a tangled veil
Unmasking visual masking: a look at the "why"behind the veil of the "how".
“To veil the threat of terror”: Afghan women and the ⟨clash of civilizations⟩ in the imagery of the U.S. war on terrorism
Bella Hadid 'couldn't move' at the Met Gala because she had a 10-pound veil sewed into her hair
Functional outcomes and oncological efficacy of Vattikuti Institute prostatectomy with Veil of Aphrodite nerve-sparing: an analysis ...