veil

名词 veil:

1. a garment that covers the head and face
   同义词：head covering
2. the inner membrane of embryos in higher vertebrates (especially when covering the head at birth)
   同义词：caul, embryonic membrane
3. a vestment worn by a priest at High Mass in the Roman Catholic Church; a silk shawl
   同义词：humeral veil

动词 veil:

1. to obscure, or conceal with or as if with a veil
2. make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing
   同义词：obscure, blot out, obliterate, hide

1. Rochester assures her it is only a bad dream, but in the morning Jane finds the ripped fragments of the veil.
   罗切斯特安慰她说这只是一个恶梦，但清晨简却发现了被撕破的婚纱碎片。
2. Most Moslem women wear veils in public places.
   大多数穆斯林妇女在公共场所都戴着面纱。
3. He tried to veil his contempt at my ignorance.
   他试图掩饰对我的无知的蔑视。
4. He deceived them under the veil of charity.
   他借慈善事业为名欺骗了他们。

veil

n.（名词）
A length of cloth worn by women over the head, shoulders, and often the face.
面纱：妇女穿戴于头上、肩上以及通常是脸上的一段布
A length of netting attached to a woman`s hat or headdress, worn for decoration or to protect the head and face.
面罩：附于妇女的帽子或头巾上的一段网状物，穿戴起来用作装饰或保护头部或脸部

The part of a nun`s headdress that frames the face and falls over the shoulders.
修女的头巾：勾勒出脸部并下垂到肩的修女头巾的那部分
The life or vows of a nun.
修女的生活或宣誓

A piece of light fabric hung to separate or conceal what is behind it; a curtain.
帷幔；幕布：悬挂着的一块轻薄织物，用来分隔或隐藏位于其后面的东西；幕布
Something that conceals, separates, or screens like a curtain:
遮盖物，分隔物：象幕布一样隐藏、分隔或掩盖某物的东西：
例句：
a veil of secrecy.
神秘的遮盖物

Biology A membranous covering or part, as that on the developing fruiting body of certain mushrooms; a velum.
【生物学】 菌幕，缘膜：一种膜性覆盖层或其中的部分，如在特定蘑菇的正在发展中的子实体上；菌幕
v.tr.（及物动词）
veiled,veil.ing,veils
To cover with or as if with a veil:
以面纱遮掩、隐蔽：用面纱或似乎用面纱覆盖：
例句：
Dense fog veiled the bridge.
浓雾笼罩着桥

To conceal or disguise.
隐蔽；掩饰

来源：
Middle English
中古英语
from Old North French
源自 古法国北方方言
from Latin vôla [pl. of] vôlum [a covering]
源自 拉丁语 vôla [] vôlum的复数 [覆盖物]