obscurity
[əb'skjuriti]
n.昏暗, 晦涩, 不出名, 不明
例句与用法:
Marked by deliberate obscurity of style or expression.
晦涩的以有意使风格或表达上含糊不清为特点的
A state of ambiguity or obscurity.
含糊不清或者晦涩的状态
His poems are full of obscurities.
他的诗作有很多晦涩难解的地方。
Many great men rose from obscurity to fame.
许多伟人都是从卑微变得有名望的。
词形变化:
名词复数: obscurities |
n.
1. 暗淡; 朦胧[U]
2. 晦涩, 难解[U]
3. 不引人注目; 隐匿[U]
He has risen from obscurity to international fame.
他已从默默无闻之辈而成为国际上的名人。
4. 无名的人; 卑微者[C]
obscurity
名词复数:obscurities
词形变化:
名词复数: obscurities |
同义词:
abstruseness | anonymity | insignificance | unimportance | oblivion | incomprehensibility | vagueness | silence | ambiguousness | doubt | shade | gloom | nothing | opacity | murkiness | concealment | unintelligibility | haze | obscureness | reconditeness |
反义词:
prominence | clarity |
词义辨析:
同义参见:
haze1
gloom
silence
concealment
shade
nothing
obscurity[əb'skjuriti]n.1.■晦涩,费解2.■暗淡,模糊,朦胧3.■偏僻;隐匿4.■无名,默默无闻5.■无名的人(或地方);微贱的人(或东西)变形n.obscurities
obscurityobscurity[əbˈskjuəriti]n.1.■暗(淡); 朦胧2.■含糊; 晦涩, 不明确3.■无名的人[地方]; 低微的人[处境]retire into obscurity隐退rise from obscurity出身微贱sink into obscurity被世人忘掉, 湮没无闻
(pl. -ies)
- [mass noun]the state of being unknown, inconspicuous, or unimportant
无名,默默无闻
he is too good a player to slide into obscurity.
像他这样优秀的运动员是不会变得默默无闻的。
■the quality of being difficult to understand
晦涩,费解
poems of impenetrable obscurity.
极其费解的诗。
■[count noun]a thing that is unclear or difficult to understand
模糊的东西,晦涩的东西
the obscurities in his poems and plays.
他的诗和戏剧中晦涩的词句。
- late Middle English: from Old French obscurite, from Latin obscuritas, from obscurus 'dark'
obscurity
名词 obscurity:
the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand
同义词:obscureness, abstruseness, reconditeness
an obscure and unimportant standing; not well known
the state of being indistinct or indefinite for lack of adequate illumination
同义词:obscureness
obscurity
■He decided that she had good judgement and was one of the few who could appreciate him in his obscurity.
"自为此女子必是个巨眼英雄,风尘中之知己也。"
■"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
"荣耀转眼即逝;而平凡才是永恒。
■The Mongols burst out of their obscurity into history in the early thirteenth century when Temujin ("Ironsmith"), a tribal leader, united a number of loosely organized tribes into a single, disciplined force.
13世纪初,部落首领铁木真(“铁匠”)把几个松散的部落联合起来,组成了一支统一的、有纪律的队伍,从此蒙古人从默默无闻中脱颖而出,载人史册。
■In May 1968, Blanchot once again emerged from personal obscurity, in support of the student protests.
1968年五月,布朗肖一度从个人的默默无闻中起身,支持抗议的学生。
■By 1970 Davis, then 65, was living in obscurity but he was a familiar sight on Kuhio Avenue, just off Honolulu's teeming Waikiki Beach.
1970年,65岁的大卫斯淡出政坛,归隐到檀香山维琪基海滩边,他的身影却时常出现在库希欧大道上。
■The 21-year-old strawberry blonde began modeling before kindergarten, taking an exhilarating ride from suburban obscurity to Hollywood stardom.
21岁的金发草莓开始建模之前,幼儿园,以泰克公司从襄阳城郊好莱坞巨星。
■Gulistan puts obscurity into the poem and experiences the essence of memory.
“我画画的时候一定会放古典乐,我的创作不能缺少音乐。”
■"I will.""The family began to get accustomed to their obscurity.
“我继续说下去,斯帕达这家族的人开始习惯于这种平庸的生活了。
■"The Dark Knight" is an unexpected coup for Roberts, returning him to mainstream glory after years in the relative obscurity of B-movies and TV guest roles.
“暗夜骑士”算得上是艾瑞克罗伯茨的出人意料之举,让他在无数B级片和电视客串无名氏反派数年之后,回归到大反派的光荣传统上来。
■"Security through obscurity is no security at all." so the adage goes.
“通过隐藏是根本没有安全可言的”格言上是这么说的。
■Some slang also passes into standard speech, but other slang expressions enjoy momentary popularity followed by obscurity.
一些俚语也变成了标准用法,但另外一些俚语只经历了短暂的流行,而后就被弃之不用了。
■This idiom is used to indicate that a person may rise from obscurity and achieve greatness.
一鸣惊人”用来表示平时默默无闻,一旦行动起来,却做出惊人的成绩。
■Meanwhile, Durant won ROY playing for a disintegrating franchise and currently toils in obscurity in a new town for a team that is the dregs of the league.
与此同时,杜兰特在一只支离破碎、垫底联盟的球队,以及一个仍在适应新场地的烂赛季中,获得了年度最佳新秀。
■Her main protagonist is Thomas Cromwell.His rise from working-class obscurity to king's righthand man has always fascinated historians as an exemplar of ruthless Tudor social mobility.
书中的主人公是托马斯戈容威尔,他那一段从坊间布衣成长为国王的得力亲信的故事始终让历史学者为之着迷,并将他作为黑暗都铎王朝社会阶级流动的典范。
■Two score and twelve were told off. From the farmer-general of seventy, whose riches could not buy his life, to the seamstress of twenty, whose poverty and obscurity could not save her.
五十二个,一个一个点了名,从七十岁的赋税承包商到二十岁的女裁缝。 前者的全部财富买不回他的命,后者的贫穷与低贱也救不了她的命。
■The man whose virtue has no source except a purely terrestrial prudence will, in such a world, become an adventurer if he has the courage, and, if not, will seek obscurity as a timid time-server.
人们的德行仅仅来源于除了尘世间的那微不足道的期待和欲望。在这样的世界上,有勇气的人们成了冒险家,而没有勇气的人成了只求明哲保身苟活于世的懦夫。
■Language is used for expression, and when expressed in a language most people don't have the patience to understand, those words which can't be said plainly can become obscurity.
人会用语言来表达自己,而用一种很多人都不愿意仔细理解的语言表达时,能更隐晦地说出不可以直言不讳的话。
■In today's universe, are full of obscurity, fake and intrigue.It is difficult to meet natural essence and gentlemen with kindness.
今日宇内,混浊连混浊,伪劣假冒,勾心斗角,很难碰见自然本色,善心赤子。
■Jin's version on the whole keeps the original intentional vagueness, obscurity and the structure therefore it is most preferable.
从这一方面来说,金陧的译文保留了原文的模糊性与晦涩,在结构和内容上与原著最为相似,其译文更加可取。
■Steve rose from obscurity to be the spotlight.
从默默无闻,变成家喻户晓。
■Had he not even allowed the Vision to dissolve, the answer to recede into the obscurity whence it came?
他不是甚至甘心让那幻象烟消云散,让那回音从黑暗里出来了,又回到黑暗里去吗?
■He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city.
他不知道那个梦已经丢在他背后了,丢在这个城市那边那一片无垠的混沌之中不知什么地方了。
■He did not know that it was already behind him, somewhere back in that vast obscurity beyond the city, where the dark fields of the republic rolled on under the night.
他不知道那个梦已经丢在他背后了,丢在这个城市那边那一片无垠的混饨之中不知什么地方了,那里合众国的黑黝黝的田野在夜色中向前伸展。
■They then perceived two men conversing in the obscurity.
他们发觉有两个人正在阴影星谈话。
■Better to bide our time and develop our economy, they said, and follow Deng Xiaoping's advice to “hide the brightness, nourish obscurity”.
他们表示,最好是在发展经济的同时等待时机,听从邓小平“韬光养晦”的忠告。
■They proved that, with some very astute acquisitions and the addition of a manager of the first class, a team can rise up from obscurity to be a postseason qualifier.
他们证明了这个总教练带领的第一年的确有他的一套,一个球队可以进步神速,甚至打进季后赛。
■He heard many voices in the obscurity behind him, their murmurs intermixed with the slurring voice of the black water, coming closer, rushing like wind through the leaves.
他听到身后,那些阴暗的地方,发出了许多许多声响,这些喃喃的声响,混合着黑水发出的波浪声,慢慢向他靠*近,就象是穿过树叶的风声一样。
■He spent most of his life working in obscurity.
他在默默无闻的工作中度过了大半生。
■Mr Taruskin has a profound distaste for obscurity in all its forms;Schoenberg, in particular, seems to be the object of a personal vendetta.
他对任何形式的晦涩一概深痛恶绝,并特别反感勋伯格(Schoenberg),视其为私怨对头。
■He has risen from obscurity to international fame.
他已从默默无闻之辈而成为国际上名人。
■Solitary, prolific, enjoying fitfully public acclaim, labouring more often in obscurity, he seeks to repossess American reality by penetrating its past, stripping its myths.
他性格孤独,创作多产,有时受到欢迎,但经常地是在无声无息中劳动着,他深入到美国过去的时代发掘着它的神话,寻求一个能重新占有美国的现实的途径。
■Solitary, prolific, enjoying fitfully public acclaim, laboring more often in obscurity, he seeks to repossess American reality by penetrating its past, stripping its myths.
他性格孤独,创作多产,有时受到欢迎,但经常地是在无声无息中劳动着,他深入到美国过去的时代发掘着它的神话,寻求一个能重新占有美国的现实的途径。
■He lives in obscurity and contends with hardship.For him no trumpets blare, no chariots wait, no golden decorations are decreed.
他无名无份、生活拮据,没有号角为他鸣响,没有战车恭候他的大驾,没有口令赐他金盔银甲。
■He lived with fame and wealth but died in obscurity.
他活着时声名显赫,但死时却无声无息。
■He expected to find a great deal of light on the subject there; he found a great deal of obscurity.
他满以为可以在那里访个水落石出,结果却仍是漆黑一团。
■His almost squalid attire was not perceptible in the obscurity caused by the shade.
他的衣服,几乎破得不成样子,幸而是在遮光罩的黑影里,看不出来。
■He moved to New York where he lived in obscurity, working as a Customs Inspector.
他移居纽约,在海关谋得个检查员职务,无声无息地过活。
■He moved to Argentina where he lived in obscurity.
他移居阿根廷,无声无息地过活。
■And he hastened straight down, running over the wet, soddened fields, pushing through the hedges, down into the depression of callous wintry obscurity.
他跑了下去,越过湿淋淋的田地,穿过树篱,下到黑暗寒冷的低洼地带。
■He retired from politics and died in obscurity.
他退出政界后默默无闻地死去。
■He lives in obscurity and contends with hardship.
他默默无闻、茹苦含辛。
■No language is more exempt from error and oBscurity than the language of mathematics.
任何语言都比不上数学语言那么精确和明了。
■But we can also recall the ecstasy of being plucked from obscurity at another event to dance with a John Travolta look-alike.
但我们也总能记起在另一次活动中意外地与一个面貌类似约翰·特拉沃尔塔的人一起跳舞的那种兴奋心情。
■But I also recall the ecstasy of being plucked from obscurity at another event to dance with a John Travolta look-alike.
但我还记得在另一次活动中意外地与一个面貌类似约翰·特拉沃尔塔的人一起跳舞的那种兴奋心情。
■Because of obscurity of property right in the stated own companies, lag of manager market development and shortage of exam and rules, it appears some questions and quandaries in annual salary.
但由于我国国有企业产权不明晰、经理市场发育滞后、业绩考核体系和配套法规不完备,在企业实施年薪制中,也带来了不少问题,造成了诸多困惑。
■Postmodern fiction, a burgeoning literary form in the postmodern context, reforms the tradition audaciously by replacing order, lucidity and rationality with disorder, obscurity and absurdity.
作为后现代主义的主要文学形式之一,后现代小说对传统的小说形式作了大胆的反拨,以混乱无序、模糊含混、荒诞奇异取代完整清晰、有序理性。
■The Duke of Clarence had lived for many years in complete obscurity with Mrs. Jordan, the actress, in Bushey Park.
克莱伦司公爵无声无息,同女演员约夫人在蒲谢园里住了许多年。
■Party leaders revel in this obscurity.
党的领导人对这一模糊的表达非常满意。
■The world has many tiny states which have languished in obscurity, with even resource-rich small stakes like Nauru mired in problems.
全球有许多默默无闻的小国家,就算资源丰富的西太平洋岛国瑙鲁,也面对重重困难。
■With the end of the Cold War, neoconservatism once sank into obscurity.
冷战结束后,新保守主义一度陷入低潮。