hiding

noun

/ˈhaɪdɪŋ/

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[uncountable] the state of being hidden隐藏；躲藏
- in/into hiding We spent months in hiding.我们躲藏了好几个月。
- After the trial, she had to go into hiding for several weeks.审讯后她不得不躲藏了几个星期。
- out of hiding He only came out of hiding ten years after the war was over.战争结束十年之后他才露面。
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
verb + hiding
- go into
- come out of
preposition
- in hiding
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[uncountable] the act of hiding something隐藏；躲藏
- I could understand the hiding of certain military secrets.我能理解某些军事秘密的隐藏。
[countable, usually singular] (especially British English, informal) a physical punishment, usually involving being hit hard many times体罚；痛打 synonym beating
- to give somebody/get a (good) hiding给某人／遭到一顿（狠）揍
- (figurative) The team got a hiding in their last game.那支球队在最后一场比赛中被打得一败涂地。

Word Originnoun sense 2 early 19th cent.: from hide ‘animal skin’ + -ing.noun sense 1 Middle English: from hide ‘conceal’ + -ing.

Idioms

on a hiding to nothing

(British English, informal) having no chance of success, or not getting much advantage even if you do succeed毫无成功机会；（即使成功了）也得不到多大好处Topics Difficulty and failurec2