veil

英[veil]美[veil]

n.[C]
1.（尤指女用的）面纱，面罩
2.（修女的）头巾
3.【单数】掩饰，掩盖，借口，托词
4.【单数】薄薄的遮盖层
v.[T]
1.戴面纱；戴面罩
2.【文学】遮掩，掩饰

同：	[n.] caul, embryonic membrane, head covering, humeral veil [v.] blot out, hide, obliterate, obscure
反：	[v.] unveil

It was she who had attacked Mason and torn Jane's wedding veil.
正是她袭击了梅森先生，撕毁了简的婚纱。收藏
I propose to draw a veil over the appalling events that followed
我建议不要谈及後来发生的那些骇人听闻的事.收藏
The veil that had hung uncertainly between them for so long was dissolved
在他们之间，长期飘忽不定的那层薄纱现在终于消散了。收藏
She unwound the brown veil from her head and tied it about his throat
她从头上解下那条褐色纱巾，把它围在他的脖子上。收藏
The reader of these pages in future years should realise how dense and baffling is the veil of the Unknown
在未来的岁月里，读者在读到这些章节时，可能感到那掩蔽着未知数的帷幕是多么严密和多么令人困惑。收藏

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a garment that covers the head and face
[同] head covering, veil
the inner membrane of embryos in higher vertebrates (especially when covering the head at birth)
[同] embryonic membrane, caul, veil

to obscure, or conceal with or as if with a veil
- women in Afghanistan veil their faces
[反] unveil
make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing
- a hidden message
- a veiled threat
[同] hide, blot out, obliterate, obscure, veil

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