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BNC: 14062 COCA: 12854

shroud

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Related topics: Death
shroud1 /ʃraʊd/ noun [countableC]  
1. MXa cloth that is wrapped around a dead person’s body before it is buried 寿衣,裹尸布
2 literaryCOVER something that hides or covers something 遮蔽物,覆盖物
 The fog rolled in, and a grey shroud covered the city.
大雾滚滚而来,一张灰色的天幕笼罩着这个城市。
shroud of
 A shroud of silence surrounded the general’s death.
将军的去世让周围一片死寂。
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shroud2 verb [transitiveT] literary  
1 HIDE/MAKE IT HARD TO FIND OR SEEto cover or hide something 覆盖;遮蔽;隐藏
 Joseph was shrouded under a dark blanket.
约瑟夫身上裹着一条深色的毯子。
be shrouded in something
 The cliff was shrouded in mist.
峭壁被薄雾笼罩。
2 MYSTERIOUSto keep information secret so that people do not know what really happened 隐瞒,将保密
be shrouded in something
 The incident has always been shrouded in mystery.
这一事件始终蒙着神秘的色彩。
 The work is shrouded in secrecy.
这项工作被严格保密。
nGrammar
Shroud is usually passive.
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Origin shroud1
Old English scrud
shroud1 nounshroud2 verbn GRAMMAR1
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BNC: 14062 COCA: 12854
shroud

noun

ADJECTIVE | VERB + SHROUD | PREPOSITION ADJECTIVEburial, funeral, mourning壽衣;喪服VERB + SHROUDwrap sb in用裹屍布包裹某人A human form lay there, wrapped in a shroud.一個包着裹屍布的人形躺在那裏。PREPOSITIONin a/the shroud在裹屍布裏shroud of (figurative) ⋯的遮蔽物The nuclear project was cloaked in a shroud of secrecy.這項核計劃在秘密狀態下實施。a shroud of darkness / mist一片黑暗/薄霧
BNC: 14062 COCA: 12854
BNC: 14062 COCA: 12854

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