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decipherment

/dih-sahy-fer/US // dɪˈsaɪ fər //UK // (dɪˈsaɪfə) //

破译,解读,解密,破解

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v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to make out the meaning of: to decipher a hastily scribbled note.
    • : to discover the meaning of: to decipher hieroglyphics.
    • : to interpret by the use of a key, as something written in cipher: to decipher a secret message.
    • : Obsolete. to depict; portray.

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Examples

  • One of the easier puzzles early in the game finds her needing to decipher the marking on a device that controls the directional orientation of a wooden bridge.

  • He could line up in bunch formations and decipher coverages to understand which route to run and how.

  • The size of it — and the pace it’s moving — makes it hard to decipher which directions teams will go in.

  • Often, they can’t decipher the difference between actual food and scented items like chapstick, potato chip bags, and snack bar wrappers, which can be fatal.

  • The case of the Sedition Act reveals that the remedy to these problems cannot be to vest authority in any one body, especially the state, to decipher true from false.

  • These are of so remarkable a type as to have puzzled every philologist and paleographer who has attempted their decipherment.

  • In regard to the history of these monarchies, much light has been obtained from the decipherment of the cuneiform inscriptions.

  • An antick motto ran round it, and with eyes and fingers we struggled at the decipherment.

  • Before the decipherment of the cuneiform texts our knowledge of its history, however, was scanty and questionable.

  • The decipherment of the third system of writing long seemed to baffle the inquirer.