英:[ˈædəmbreɪt]
美:[ˈædəmˌbret, əˈdʌm-]
英:[ˈædəmbreɪt]
美:[ˈædəmˌbret, əˈdʌm-]
ad·um·brate
duhm breIt [or] ae dm breIt
第三人称单数:adumbrates
现在分词:adumbrating
过去式:adumbrated
过去分词:adumbrated
adumbrative (adj.), adumbration (n.)
词根:adumbrate
n.adumbration 轮廓;预示
Verb
1. describe roughly or briefly or give the main points or summary of;
"sketch the outline of the book"
"outline his ideas"
2. give to understand;
"I insinuated that I did not like his wife"
1580年代,“勾勒,描绘”,源自拉丁语 adumbratus “勾勒,轮廓”,也指“虚假的,不真实的,假的”,是 adumbrare “投影阴影”的过去分词; 在绘画中,“用轮廓代表(一件事物)”,源自 ad “到”(见 ad-)和 umbrare “投射阴影”(源自 PIE 词根 *andho- “盲; 黑暗”; 见 umbrage)。 “遮蔽”一词在英语中的意思是从1660年代开始的。相关: Adumbrated; adumbrating。
borrowed from Latin adumbrātus, past participle of adumbrāre "to shade, represent by means of light and shade, sketch, outline," from ad- ad- + -umbrāre, verbal derivative of umbra "shadow" — more at umbrage
The first known use of adumbrate was in 1537
1 "Formal resignation"—adumbrated by more than one innuendo—portended the summary collapse of a political career that she had believed would culminate in elevation to a Cabinet seat during the next administration.
2 More than any juice cleanse or lottery win or career switch, a foreign language adumbrates a vision of a parallel life.
3 the strife in Bloody Kansas in the 1850s adumbrated the civil war that would follow
4 She marked the colour—lilac—as if faintly to adumbrate the imperial purple of Rome.
5 This, no doubt, is eminently convenient for the "constructive" process adumbrated by Mr. Balfour, which I certainly regard as extra-logical.
6 What can there be to adumbrate before occurrence schizophrenia, the depressed disease that how calculates?
出现精神分裂症之前会有什么预兆, 怎样算的抑郁症?
7 This truth seems to be adumbrated in a somewhat obscurer form by those who maintain that men can sin against God's revelation, but not against the eternal decree by which He has ordained all things....
8 And just as the fish and the reptile glimmeringly adumbrate man, so do these yearnings and desires adumbrate what man in himself calls "love," spelled all out in capitals.
9 From now onwards the speeches of Brutus strangely adumbrate those of Hamlet.
10 Yet the scheme thus adumbrated is not at the present time clearly in sight.
11 There only, they implied, could something adumbrating a sacred ritual and a spiritual consolation be preserved.
12 Passages of the original work underlined and adumbrated with exclamation marks and double or even treble question marks; phrases scored out and notes running down the margin at right angles to the printed text.
13 Whether does menstruate of the rice before menstruation adumbrate to come smoothly also classics?
月经前米有月经预兆是否也顺利来经?
14 But the colours of New York are exactly in that key; and might be adumbrated by phrases like raw pink or raw yellow.
15 His photographs have used a variety of techniques to adumbrate this world.
16 There could have been a different outcome but for reasons too dull to adumbrate, we’ll leave it there.
17 The locked-up chapels and the quiet houses declined from ominousness into respectability, and he wondered how he had managed only a quarter of an hour ago to speculate upon the inner life they adumbrated.
18 In between, works by contemporaries complicate superficial ideas about his meteoric genius, and small, delicate drawings teem with an abundance of ideas — paintings never made, thoughts adumbrated then abandoned.
19 According to these writers, every tincture and bearing adumbrated the natural dispositions of the bearer.
20 Lung cancer has what symptom, have adumbrate?
肺癌有哪些症状,有预兆吗?
4 预示
type earnest presage prognostication foretaste bellwether pre-echo herald bode foreshadow foretell augur prefigure betoken prognosticate forebode foretoken foreshow portentous indication portent threaten portend usher in prognostic premonition shape forecast vaticinate prophetic ominous doom-laden prognosis harbinger foreboding spae announce promise forerun bodement prefiguration adumbration soothsay signal predict prophesy omen presignify forespeak pretypify sign indicate trail shadow signify typify bespeak betide vaticinal predictive prophetical prefigurative annunciatory prelusive vaticination
6 画轮廓
8 暗示
constructive reminiscent suggestive significative sign touch wind suggestion smell hint clue implication cue steer pointer suspicion connotation allusion signpost inkling reminiscence tip-off insinuation intimation soupcon smack suggest tip imply insinuate connote in allusion to adumbrative insinuating lead note office overtone innuendo prompting clew point mint allude break indicate intimate glance couch infer bespeak
13 勾画
16 给…投下阴影
17 遮蔽
defilade roof mask curtain obscure shroud occult blot overcast bower enshroud becloud embower eclipse over screen hide shade canopy nestle sconce embosom cover shelter obscuration shadow overshadow occlude
18 晦暗
19 使阴暗