| 单词 | shroud |
| 释义 | shroud (once / 654 pages) nv Are the rules of calculus shrouded in mystery to you? The verb shroud means to hide or cover something or someone. The fog might shroud the valley, or that long-sleeved, ankle-length dress might shroud the tan you worked so hard on in Mexico over Christmas break. It used to be that corpses were dressed for burial not in person’s best outfit but in a shroud — a garment, often white, made to cover the body. When ghosts, zombies or mummies are depicted in rags, they are wearing the remains of their burial shrouds. If you should hide from them by covering yourself with an abandoned tarp, you will be shrouding yourself from sight. WORD FAMILYshroud: enshroud, shrouded, shrouding, shrouds+/enshroud: enshrouded, enshrouding, enshrouds USAGE EXAMPLESShelves and floor space are shrouded in heaps of soft yarn and fuzzy pompoms. New York Times(Dec 31, 2016) Yet the origins of the Avoca Street Christmas light show are shrouded in mystery; there is no consensus about when or why the tradition started. BBC(Dec 21, 2016) As the motorcade entered the base, the sun was shining over Kaneohe Bay with the verdant Koolau mountain range shrouded with clouds in the backdrop. Washington Times(Dec 17, 2016) 1n burial garment in which a corpse is wrapped Syn|Hyper cerement, pall, winding-clothes, winding-sheet burial garment cloth used to cover a corpse in preparation for burial 2n (nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind Syn|Hypo|Hyper mainsheet, sheet, tack, weather sheet futtock shroud shroud that is part of a ship's rigging line something (as a cord or rope) that is long and thin and flexible 3n a line that suspends the harness from the canopy of a parachute Hyper line something (as a cord or rope) that is long and thin and flexible 4v wrap in a shroud shroud the corpses Hyper wrap, wrap up arrange or fold as a cover or protection 5v cover as if with a shroud The origins of this civilization are shrouded in mystery Syn|Hyper cover, enshroud, hide enclose, enfold, envelop, enwrap, wrap enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering 6v form a cover like a shroud Mist shrouded the castle Hyper cover, spread over form a cover over |
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