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BNC: 14062 COCA: 12854

shroud

noun
/ʃraʊd/
/ʃraʊd/
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  1. a piece of cloth that a dead person’s body is wrapped in before it is buried裹尸布;寿衣
    • a burial shroud裹尸布
    Topics Life stagesc2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • burial
    • funeral
    • mourning
    verb + shroud
    • wrap somebody in
    preposition
    • in a/​the shroud
    • shroud of
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  2. shroud of something (literary) a thing that covers, surrounds or hides something覆盖物;遮蔽物
    • The organization is cloaked in a shroud of secrecy.这个组织笼罩着一种诡秘的气氛。
    • a shroud of smoke一片烟雾
    • a shroud of darkness/mist一片黑暗/薄雾
  3. Word Originlate Old English scrūd ‘garment, clothing’, of Germanic origin, from a base meaning ‘cut’; related to shred. An early sense of the verb (Middle English) was ‘cover so as to protect’.

shroud

verb
/ʃraʊd/
/ʃraʊd/
[usually passive]
Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they shroud
/ʃraʊd/
/ʃraʊd/
he / she / it shrouds
/ʃraʊdz/
/ʃraʊdz/
past simple shrouded
/ˈʃraʊdɪd/
/ˈʃraʊdɪd/
past participle shrouded
/ˈʃraʊdɪd/
/ˈʃraʊdɪd/
-ing form shrouding
/ˈʃraʊdɪŋ/
/ˈʃraʊdɪŋ/
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  1. shroud something in something (of darkness, clouds, cloth, etc.黑暗、云、织物等) to cover or hide something覆盖;隐藏;遮蔽
    • The city was shrouded in mist.城市笼罩在雾霭之中。
    • furniture shrouded in dust sheets蒙着防尘罩的傢具
  2. shroud something in something to hide information or keep it secret and mysterious隐瞒;保密
    • His family background is shrouded in mystery.他的家庭背景蒙上了神秘的色彩。
  3. Word Originlate Old English scrūd ‘garment, clothing’, of Germanic origin, from a base meaning ‘cut’; related to shred. An early sense of the verb (Middle English) was ‘cover so as to protect’.
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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