hiding

英 ['haɪdɪŋ] 美['haɪdɪŋ]

TEM4中低频词

复数: hidings;

hiding (n.1): "concealment," early 13c., verbal noun from hide (v.1). Hiding place is from mid-15c.; an Old English word for this was hydels.
hiding (n.2): "a flogging," 1809, from hide (n.1), perhaps in reference to a whip or thong made of animal hide. Old English had hyde ðolian "to undergo a flogging," and hydgild "fine paid to save one's skin (from a punishment by flogging)." The English expression a hiding to nothing (by 1905) referred to a situation where there was disgrace in defeat and no honor in victory.

1. The family was often in flight, hiding out in friends' houses.: 这一家人常常东躲西藏，在朋友家里避风头。

2. The seal on the box broke when it fell from its hiding-place.: 盒子从隐藏处掉落时，封口裂开了。

4. We believe she may have played a part in hiding the cash.: 我们认为她可能参与了藏匿现金。

5. He then dismembered her, hiding parts of her body in the cellar.: 他接着将她肢解，将部分尸体藏在了地窖里。