veil

英 [ve?l] 美[vel]

反義詞

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復(fù)數(shù):?veils;第三人稱單數(shù):?veils;過去式:?veiled;過去分詞:?veiled;現(xiàn)在分詞:?veiling;

1. 易混淆單詞：veil, vein.
2. evil -> veil ( ev- => ve- ), 魔鬼長(zhǎng)得太邪惡了，出門得戴著面紗，以免嚇著別人。
3. 諧音“圍哦” --- 圍在頭上遮住、蓋住。
4. 諧音“帷哦”

veil 面紗

來自拉丁語velum,簾布，帆，引申詞義面紗。

veil: veil: [13] The ultimate source of veil is Latin vēlum ‘sail, curtain, veil’, and English acquired it via Anglo-Norman veile. To reveal something is etymologically to ‘remove a veil’ from it.
=> reveal
veil (n.): c. 1200, "nun's head covering," from Anglo-French and Old North French veil (12c., Modern French voile) "a head-covering," also "a sail, a curtain," from Latin vela, plural of velum "sail, curtain, covering," from PIE root *weg- (1) "to weave a web." Vela was mistaken in Vulgar Latin for a feminine singular noun. To take the veil "become a nun" is attested from early 14c.
veil (v.): late 14c., from Old French veler, voiller (12c.), from Latin velare "to cover, veil," from velum "a cloth, covering, curtain, veil," literally "a sail" (see veil (n.)). Figurative sense of "to conceal, mask, disguise" (something immaterial) is recorded from 1530s. Related: Veiled; veiling.

1. He recognized the coast of England through a veil of mist.: 透過薄霧他認(rèn)出了那是英格蘭的海岸線。

3. It would dishonour my family if I didn't wear the veil.: 如果我不戴面紗就會(huì)有辱門楣。

4. The chilling facts behind this veil of silence were slow to emerge.: 沉默背后的駭人真相慢慢顯露出來。