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obscurely

/uhb-skyoor/US // əbˈskyʊər //UK // (əbˈskjʊə) //

默默地,暗中,默默无闻,默默无闻地

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adj.形容词 adjective
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    ob·scur·er, ob·scur·est.

    • : not clear or plain; ambiguous, vague, or uncertain: an obscure sentence in the contract.
    • : not clear to the understanding; hard to perceive: obscure motivations.
    • : not expressing the meaning clearly or plainly.
    • : indistinct to the sight or any other sense; not readily seen, heard, etc.; faint.
    • : inconspicuous or unnoticeable: the obscure beginnings of a great movement.
    • : of little or no prominence, note, fame, or distinction: an obscure French artist.
    • : far from public notice, worldly affairs, or important activities; remote; retired: an obscure little town.
    • : lacking in light or illumination; dark; dim; murky: an obscure back room.
    • : enveloped in, concealed by, or frequenting darkness.
    • : not bright or lustrous; dull or darkish, as color or appearance.
    • : having the reduced or neutral sound usually represented by the schwa.
v.有主动词 verb
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    ob·scured, ob·scur·ing.

    • : to conceal or conceal by confusing.
    • : to make dark, dim, indistinct, etc.
    • : to reduce or neutralize to the sound usually represented by a schwa.
n.名词 noun
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    • : obscurity.

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Examples

  • Meanwhile, Mowers is facing a congressional ethics investigation for obscuring his past work for big pharmaceutical companies by illegibly writing that information on his disclosure forms.

  • Google’s recent, and future, applications of natural language processing and AI will be aimed at removing those tradeoffs so that it can serve relevant results, no matter how obscure a query might be or where on a site that information lives.

  • The scams and subsequent law enforcement stings left a stench of disrepute on the broader crypto industry—one that has helped obscure the real progress made by ventures like Filecoin and Polkadot.

  • However, those averages could obscure dramatic changes in individual performance, if about half of winners continued to improve their performance while the other half returned to their previous level of performance.

  • It catches grammar, spelling, and punctuation mistakes, from the most basic to the obscure.

  • Hamad said somewhat obscurely that he is moving “to another position” to serve “my homeland and its people.”

  • Some 50 detectives are now poring over this paperwork in the obscurely named "Operation Weeting."

  • And for the first time there crept into Rose's obscurely suffering soul, a fear and a jealousy of Mrs. Brodrick.

  • There might be logical causes, buried obscurely under remote events, for everything that had transpired.

  • At the beginning of Queen Mary's reign he had given up all his preferments and lived privately and obscurely.

  • We trace them obscurely under the denomination of "Seekers," their distinguishing principle being the doctrine of an inward light.

  • This simile is nobly conceived, but expressed somewhat obscurely.