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obscurity怎么读？

obscurity

英 [əb'skjʊərɪtɪ] 美[əb'skjʊrəti]

英英释义实用场景例句

近义词nothing gloom shade concealment

n. 朦胧；阴暗；晦涩；身份低微；不分明

TEM8GRE低频词畅通词汇

词态变化

复数: obscurities;

中文词源

obscurity 费解，晦涩难懂

来自obscure,使费解，模糊，-ity,名词后缀。

英文词源

obscurity (n.): late 15c., "absence of light;" 1610s with meaning "condition of being unknown;" from obscure (adj.) + -ity; or else from Middle French obscurité, variant of Old French oscureté "darkness, gloom; vagueness, confusion; insignificance" (14c.), from Latin obscuritatem (nominative obscuritas) "darkness, indistinctness, uncertainty," from obscurus.

双语例句

1. His prose is vigorous and dense, occasionally to the point of obscurity.: 他的散文文笔有力、内容庞杂，有时几近晦涩。

2. The actress was only 17 when she was plucked from obscurity and made a star.: 这个演员受到提携从无名少女一跃成为明星时年仅17岁。

3. The obscurity of the passage makes several interpretations possible.: 这段文字隐晦,因而有可能作出好几种解释.

4. "How can that be?" asked Hunt, irritated by the obscurity of Henry's reply.: “怎么会那样呢？”亨特问道，亨利含糊费解的回答让他恼火。

5. Gino clawed his way out of underworld obscurity to become a millionaire hotelier.: 吉诺从底层社会的无名小卒一步步奋斗成为拥有百万家财的酒店大亨。