cryptic

1 … his hectic characters either communicate in choppy or cryptic exchanges or rattle on in breathless recitations full of contradictions and asides.

2 His instructions were cryptic. He said only to wait until we felt certain the answer was clear.

3 Gaga was uncharacteristically cryptic in the run-up to her Chromatica era, which began nearly four years after 2016's Joanne.

4 I didn’t know anything at the time; Dennis had been as cryptic and evasive as ever, Jack professing nothing.

5 Other group members stored their bodily fluids in baby-food jars or wrote cryptic messages on packaged skirt steaks.

6 I just prefer that. I never had that kind of structural mind, so I prefer leaving things somewhat cryptic.

我从未有过结构化的思维方式，所以更喜欢让事物有些含糊。

7 a cryptic message/remark/smile

令人困惑的信息 / 话语 / 微笑

8 Then Sticky whispered, “Boy, when Rhonda said they were going to be cryptic, she meant it.”

9 He emptied the bag of salvaged miscellany he’d brought to shoot, jotted a few cryptic words on bits of paper, and then pinned them together with old photos and other ephemera onto timeworn corkboards.

10 Dry Valley upturned rock showing cryptic microbes.

麦克默多乾谷的石头隐藏着微生物.

11 He only knew—or at least strongly suspected—that, if he could read this cryptic alphabet, he could unlock the secrets of the citadel.

12 I don't know what this cryptic remark is intended to convey.

我不知道这句暗藏玄机的评语是要表示什麽。

13 He has issued a short, cryptic statement denying the spying charges...

他发表了一个简短隐晦的声明，否认对其间谍行为的指控。

14 “If you don’t stop saying cryptic things, I’m going to slap you,” I say, getting to my feet.

15 Quasars also seem to be surrounded by halos of dark matter, a cryptic and unseen component of all galaxies.

类星体看上去也被一些暗物质组成的“环”围绕着，这是所有星系都有的一个神秘的，看不见的组成部分。

16 If Farmer ever said anything cryptic and Ophelia challenged him, she noticed that he stopped being so forthcoming.

17 I studied them closely until they left the train, their shoulders rocking, their heavy heel plates clicking remote, cryptic messages in the brief silence of the train's stop.

18 A cryptic message said France needs to pull troops out of Afghanistan.

一个神秘消息要求法国需要从阿富汗撤军。

19 He brooded in ponderous speculation over the cryptic message he had just received.

20 Since Hughes's poems contained neither Eliot's footnotes nor Ezra Pound's cryptic orientalism, many critics and editors assumed the poet unintelligent and his work raw or, at best, slight.

1 隐藏的

blind hidden covert latent subterranean undiscovered unexposed privy veiled hid close crypto- secret hideaway perdue perdu cryptical

2 秘密

q.t. close inside private dark cabinet closed underground closet covert occult arcane esoteric secretive subterranean clandestine backdoor underarm backstreet underhanded furtive hush-hush recondite backstairs hugger-mugger teteatete backstage inwardly secret privacy confidence mystery 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 privy sly stealthy underhand surreptitious unrevealed unavowed hole-and-corner under-the-counter penetralia a nigger in the woodpile on the quiet in private behind the scenes on the sly pocket interior quiet inner chamber hidden retired shady under-the-table back-street backstair cryptical darkly privily subrosa darkness intimity crypto- by- in petto sub-rosa bye classified snug behind-the-scenes unpublished hermetic closed-door sneaking hid unbreathed undivulged privately reserve reservation stealth mysticism dern on the cuff for the cuff under hat just quietly on the q.t under cover behind closed doors in confidence among ourselves mysterious backroom huggermugger secretly confidentially surreptitiously cryptically secretively unavowedly confidentiality QT secretiveness re- hide on the qt sub rosa in strict confidence through the back door by the back door

3 不明显的

unsharp dull unapparent

4 秘密的

close inside private cabinet closed underground closet covert occult arcane esoteric secretive subterranean clandestine backdoor underarm backstreet underhanded furtive hush-hush recondite backstairs hugger-mugger teteatete backstage under a bushel under night tête-à-tête dark secret confidential sneak undercover privy sly stealthy underhand surreptitious unrevealed unavowed hole-and-corner under-the-counter mystery pocket interior quiet inner chamber hidden retired shady under-the-table back-street backstair cryptical by- sub-rosa bye classified snug behind-the-scenes unpublished hermetic closed-door sneaking hid unbreathed undivulged dern for the cuff mysterious backroom huggermugger in petto

5 简短

laconic monosyllabic short-winded short shortly briefly make brief of

6 隐密

interior inner covert underground covertly privacy secrecy under cover

7 简短的

laconic monosyllabic short-winded

8 奥妙的

mystic

9 晦涩难懂的

arcane convoluted turgid oracular

10 隐藏

covert privy subterranean veiled hid occultation veil occult cover bottle hide blind bury suppress conceal envelop bosom enshroud hide out take earth close crypto- secretion hiding lurk stash secrete smuggle seclude dissemble put out of sight hole up secret hidden undiscovered hideaway perdue perdu cryptical hideout smother enwomb take shadow shade shut sink curtain sneak obscure disguise recess snug shroud stow ensconce

11 隐密的

interior inner covert

12 不直截了当的

oblique

13 隐蔽的

private closet retired secluded covert privy cloistered sequestered secret quiet blind obscure latent ulterior crypto- close occult masked submerged hideaway

14 神秘

dark mysterious mystic occult arcane esoteric enigmatic 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 hid numinous chthonic enigmatical anagogic delphian cryptical sacrament rune arcanum uncanniness deep Orphic stownlins uncannily sealed book

15 难解

opaque knotty recondite opacity obscure dark blind subtle abstract esoteric unfathomable abstruse tenebrous cryptical subtly

16 隐秘的

dark closet ulterior inner hidden

17 难解的

opaque knotty recondite dark blind subtle abstract obscure esoteric unfathomable abstruse tenebrous cryptical

18 费解的

queer impenetrable unexplainable recherché complex complicated obscure diffuse enigmatic inexplicable

19 隐秘

dark closet ulterior intimately inner hidden

20 费解

queer impenetrable unexplainable recherché obscurity embarrass complex complicated obscure diffuse enigmatic inexplicable

21 神秘的

dark mysterious mystic occult arcane esoteric enigmatic inscrutable unearthly mystical Kabbalistic secret weird curious hidden transcendental unsearchable cabalistic orphic darksome sibylline uncanny fishy gnostic oracular Delphic Byronic mystery in the clouds hid numinous chthonic enigmatical anagogic delphian cryptical deep Orphic

22 奥妙

mystic mystery arcanum

23 隐蔽

secret quiet blind obscure latent privy ulterior crypto- retreat closet ambush smuggle smother ambuscade lie doggo take cover close private occult masked submerged hideaway underground doggo bield cover-up hiding ob- lie wrap hood veil mantle envelop hearse hoodwink hole in