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美:[ɑrˈkeɪn]
英:[ɑ:ˈkeɪn]
美:[ɑrˈkeɪn]
ar·cane
ar keIn
adjective
of a secret or esoteric nature; mysterious; abstruse.Her interest lies in the arcane rituals of ancient peoples.Only an expert can understand the arcane language of these scholarly papers.The lecture dealt with an arcane topic, but the speaker made it interesting and comprehensible to the audience.
"隐藏的,秘密的",来自1540年代的拉丁语 arcanus "秘密的,隐藏的,私人的,隐蔽的",源自 arcere "关闭,封闭,包含",源自 arca "箱子,盒子,保险箱",源自 PIE 词根 *ark- "持有,包含,保护"(源头还包括希腊语 arkos "防御", arkein "避开"; 亚美尼亚语 argel "障碍"; 立陶宛语 raktas "钥匙", rakinti "关闭,锁上")。
borrowed from Latin arcānus "secret, private, intimate," from arca "chest, coffer, box" + -ānus -an >entry 2 — more at ark
The first known use of arcane was in 1547
1 The details may seem arcane, but huge sums are at stake.
细节可能显得晦涩难懂,但这涉及大笔金额。
2 Back in the Union Pacific days, Mr. DiSpirito’s interest in East Asian cuisines came out in the form of complex preparations, arcane ingredients and out-of-nowhere juxtapositions.
3 Thailand is notorious for its range of arcane festivals.
泰国各类神秘的节日一向远近闻名,而纹身鉴赏典礼可谓是其中最奇特的。
4 Arcane architecture terms like SOA, WOA and REST become less relevant as tools to support the technologies blur distinctions.
像SOA,WOA和REST等等神秘的架构术语变得不那么相关了,因为工具对这些技术的支持模糊了它们之间的区别。
5 With 2002's less benign Geogaddi, animated by an interest in religion, mathematics and numerology, the duo attracted the kind of people who spend long nights investigating the internet's more arcane precincts.
6 It is a story about a man who, as he seeks to build an empire in the arcane world of heating oil, undertakes a number of risks while a vise tightens around him.
7 When experts start arguing for its continued relevance, undergraduates choosing a major will begin to realize that the obscure art of manually punching arcane symbols into keyboards is no longer a safe bet.
8 It’s thick with scientific references, tech talk, arcane erudition and historical research, and it features a child born black to white parents.
9 And so the whole show looks not just arcane but also trivial on purpose, like a game of dressing-up-in-costume charades that has gotten out of hand.
10 A whole arcane vocabulary — “rapid prototyping,” “selective layer sintering,” “fused deposition modeling” — has evolved to describe these new creative processes.
11 This testimony pointed her in the direction of extremely arcane documentation, material of needle-in-a-haystack obscurity.
12 Though the Beach Boys sing beautifully, the arcane songs puzzled some of the group members.
13 “Zoning determines so much, but it’s so boring and so arcane,” says Woo.
14 It is one of the most endearing attributes of this storyteller of outsize gifts and estimable skills at synthesizing the arcane and the everyday into illuminating, spoken treatises, usually on vital American subjects.
15 The Coral's second coming should be around now, but you can't help but wonder how much bigger this purposely arcane and nostalgic outfit will get.
16 Chevriere also gives us a glossary to explain some of wine’s more arcane terms, as well as helpful tips on deciphering wine labels and shopping for wine in stores and restaurants.
17 Carey cements the essential foundation for the arcane doings by establishing the two families as quintessentially real and believable.
18 Zealous enthusiasm for the politically charged and frequently arcane theories that energized departments in the 1970s, ’80s and early ’90s — Marxism, structuralism, psychoanalysis — has faded.
19 Umberto Eco, an Italian scholar in the arcane field of semiotics who became the author of best-selling novels, most notably the blockbuster medieval mystery “The Name of the Rose,” died on Friday in Italy.
20 One last point: “Women Who Fly” shows how relevant even seemingly arcane scholarship can be to contemporary life.
1 秘密
private secret underground closet covert occult privy clandestine privily mystery hugger-mugger crypto- a skeleton in the cupboard on the side behind the scenes behind closed doors on the sly q.t. close inside dark cabinet closed esoteric secretive cryptic subterranean backdoor underarm backstreet underhanded furtive hush-hush recondite backstairs teteatete backstage inwardly privacy confidence silence secrecy privity arcanum in secrecy to oneself in privacy between ourselves under a bushel under the rose by stealth under night tête-à-tête confidential sneak undercover sly stealthy underhand surreptitious unrevealed unavowed hole-and-corner under-the-counter penetralia a nigger in the woodpile on the quiet in private closely privately covertly in camera trade secret like a thief in the night in secret under wraps in confidence under the counter sub-rosa pocket quiet chamber hidden bye classified shady snug behind-the-scenes unpublished hermetic closed-door sneaking hid unbreathed undivulged darkly reserve reservation stealth mysticism by- dern on the cuff for the cuff under hat just quietly on the q.t under cover among ourselves
2 秘密的
quiet sneaky close Black private secret underground closet sneak backstage covert privy secretive subterranean clandestine furtive hush-hush backstairs hugger-mugger hole-and-corner crypto- backstreet sub rosa occult behind the scenes behind closed doors inside cabinet closed esoteric cryptic backdoor underarm underhanded recondite teteatete under a bushel under night tête-à-tête dark confidential undercover sly stealthy underhand surreptitious unrevealed unavowed under-the-counter mystery in camera under wraps sub-rosa pocket chamber hidden bye classified shady snug behind-the-scenes unpublished hermetic closed-door sneaking hid unbreathed undivulged by- dern for the cuff
3 神秘
dark mysterious mystic occult esoteric enigmatic cryptic inscrutable unearthly darkly mystery mystical Kabbalistic mysteriously cryptically enigmatically secretively chemistry secret weird curious hidden transcendental unsearchable cabalistic orphic darksome sibylline riddle mysticism uncanny fishy gnostic oracular Delphic Byronic penetralia in the clouds intriguing eerie confidential moody shadowy numinous fathomless cloak-and-dagger crank thin air runic hid Kafkaesque Orphic chthonic way-out deep stownlins uncannily sealed book
5 神秘的
uncanny dark mysterious occult enigmatic hermetic unearthly unsearchable cloak-and-dagger sibylline mystic esoteric cryptic inscrutable mystical Kabbalistic secret weird curious hidden transcendental cabalistic orphic darksome fishy gnostic oracular Delphic Byronic mystery in the clouds intriguing eerie confidential moody shadowy numinous fathomless crank runic hid Kafkaesque Orphic chthonic way-out deep
7 晦涩的