Shroud
[ʃraʊd]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a line that suspends the harness from the canopy of a parachute.
(verb.) wrap in a shroud; 'shroud the corpses'.
(verb.) cover as if with a shroud; 'The origins of this civilization are shrouded in mystery'.
(verb.) form a cover like a shroud; 'Mist shrouded the castle'.
編輯:汤姆--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) That which clothes, covers, conceals, or protects; a garment.
(n.) Especially, the dress for the dead; a winding sheet.
(n.) That which covers or shelters like a shroud.
(n.) A covered place used as a retreat or shelter, as a cave or den; also, a vault or crypt.
(n.) The branching top of a tree; foliage.
(n.) A set of ropes serving as stays to support the masts. The lower shrouds are secured to the sides of vessels by heavy iron bolts and are passed around the head of the lower masts.
(n.) One of the two annular plates at the periphery of a water wheel, which form the sides of the buckets; a shroud plate.
(n.) To cover with a shroud; especially, to inclose in a winding sheet; to dress for the grave.
(n.) To cover, as with a shroud; to protect completely; to cover so as to conceal; to hide; to veil.
(v. i.) To take shelter or harbor.
(v. t.) To lop. See Shrood.
凯瑟琳編輯
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Winding sheet, grave-clothes.
v. a. Cover, hide, veil, mask, cloak, screen, bury, muffle.
布雷特整理
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Cover, {[hfHe]?}, veil, obscure, darken, palliate, envelop, shelter
ANT:Expose, reveal, {[nnvefl]?}, elucidate, discover, uncover
校對:诺艾尔
解釋/意思:
n. the dress of the dead a winding-sheet: that which clothes or covers: any underground hole a vault burrow &c.: (pl.) a set of ropes from the mast-heads to a ship's sides to support the masts.—v.t. to enclose in a shroud: to cover: to hide: to shelter.—v.i. to take shelter.—adjs. Shroud′less without a shroud; Shroud′y giving shelter.
v.t. (prov.) to lop the branches from as a tree.—n. a cutting a bough or branch the foliage of a tree.
錄入:卢卡斯
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To dream of a shroud, denotes sickness and its attendant distress and anxiety, coupled with the machinations of the evil-minded and false friends. Business will threaten decline after this dream. To see shrouded corpses, denotes a multitude of misfortunes. To see a shroud removed from a corpse, denotes that quarrels will result in alienation.
錄入:沃尔特
例句/造句/用法:
- She had already, alone as she was, accomplished some of these, and the work on which I found her employed, was her mother's shroud. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- On either side of the peninsula the Atlantic in varying mood lies extended in summer sunshine, or from its shroud of mist thunders o n the black cliffs and their time-sculptured sandstones. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Other accounts make Charles wear a shroud and lie in the coffin, remaining there alone until the last mourner had left the chapel. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- It was his mother's shroud, he thought; but Cassy had it, holding it up, and showing it to him. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- I know not what dress she had on: it was white and straight; but whether gown, sheet, or shroud, I cannot tell. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- So do nuns, with their close cell, their iron lamp, their robe strait as a shroud, their bed narrow as a coffin. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- He is so; but then he has passed all his life on board a vessel, and has scarcely an idea beyond the rope and the shroud. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- In all other respects Fosco, on that memorable day, was Fosco shrouded in total eclipse. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- I indicated in what direction the mist had shrouded the other man, and he looked up at it for an instant. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- The next operation then is to disengage the shrouded image, and this is accomplished by a solvent. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- Don't use such dreadful expressions, replied Meg from the depths of the veil in which she had shrouded herself like a nun sick of the world. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- The early history of Damascus is shrouded in the mists of a hoary antiquity. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Mr. Weller nodded his acquiescence in the sentiment, and again fastening his eyes on the fire, shrouded himself in a cloud, and mused deeply. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- One or two small shrouded lamps placed on the floor served dimly to light the way to a few descending steps, and the voice of an invisible guide gave directions to walk forward. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- I will _not_ prison it in the linen press to find shrouds among the sheets. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- No one ventured on board the vessel, and strange sights were averred to be seen at night, walking the deck, and hanging on the masts and shrouds. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- He almost thought that shrouds were for the old and shrunken; and that they never wrapped the young and graceful form in their ghastly folds. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- For instance-- For instance, returned Madame Defarge, composedly, shrouds. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- Horrible thoughts of death, and shrouds with blood upon them, and a fear that has made me burn as if I was on fire, have been upon me all day. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Earth is to me a tomb, the firmament a vault, shrouding mere corruption. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
錄入:洛根