not well known synonym unknown無名的;鮮爲人知的 an obscure German poet 一個名不見經傳的德國詩人 We went to see one of Shakespeare’s more obscure plays. 我們去看了莎士比亞的一部比較晦澀的戲劇。 He was born around 1650 but his origins remain obscure. 他生於 1650 年前後,但身世不詳。 The origins of the tradition have become obscure. 這個傳統的起源已經不清楚了。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
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difficult to understand 費解的;難以理解的 I found her lecture very obscure. 我覺得她的講座非常費解。 For some obscure reason, he failed to turn up. 他莫名其妙地沒有如期露面。 The meaning of his comment was obscure to everyone but himself. 除了他自己,其他人都不明白他的話的意思。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- seem
- become
- …
- extremely
- fairly
- very
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Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French obscur, from Latin obscurus ‘dark’, from an Indo-European root meaning ‘cover’.