| 释义 |
obscured, ppl. a.
(əbˈskjʊəd, poet. -rɪd)
[-ed1.]
1. Made obscure; darkened, dimmed; hidden from the sight or perception; fallen into obscurity.
1590Shakes. Com. Err. i. i. 67 What obscured light the heauens did grant. 1598― Merry W. v. iii. 15 They are all couch'd in a pit hard by Hernes Oake, with obscur'd Lights. 1763Edwards in Phil. Trans. LIII. 229 Reflections of obscured things in air, when reflected from the water. 1891T. Hardy Tess (1900) 19/1 Pages of works devoted to extinct, half-extinct, obscured, and ruined families.
2. Phonetics. Of a vowel sound: having a neutral, centralized articulation; weakened; reduced.
1925G. P. Krapp Eng. Lang. in Amer. II. 250 Difficulty was expressed in disposing of this unstressed and obscured vowel. 1934M. K. Pope From Latin to Mod. French v. 119 The obscured neutral vowel in use in Modern English is buccal and central, the one in Modern French is a slightly rounded front sound. 1935J. S. Kenyon Amer. Pronunc. (ed. 6) 90 The same spelling is kept for the obscured vowel that was used to spell it before it became obscured. 1962A. C. Gimson Introd. Pronunc. Eng. vii. 120 As the great variety of spellings indicates, /ə/ may represent the reduced (obscured, ‘schwa’) form of any vowel or diphthong in an unaccented position.
Hence obˈscuredly |-rɪdlɪ|, adv.
1628Gaule Pract. The. (1629) 402 This numbred while [the forty days between resurrection and ascension] Christ passed not..obscuredly; but appeared oft. a1641Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. (1642) 346 This continued among Pagans..though obscuredly. |