| 词组 | shroud |
| 释义 | shroud The verb shroud is occasionally found in literal use: • ... he washed the bodies of the Muslim dead and shrouded them for burial —V. S. Naipaul, Among the Believers, 1981 More often shroud is used figuratively: • The depression that shrouds all of her fiction is original in its mood, unlike anything else being written —Elizabeth Hardwick, N.Y. Times Book Rev., 13 May 1973 • The origins of the teddy bear, like those of life itself, are shrouded in controversy —Catherine Calvert, Town & Country, December 1982 • ... the full extent of the damage to American intelligence resulting from the mishaps is shrouded in secrecy —Peter Ackroyd, N. Y. Times Book Rev., 13 July 1986 These figurative uses are, of course, standard, but the particular phrases shrouded in fog and shrouded in secrecy are sometimes disparaged as clichés (as in Copperud 1980 and Longman 1988). |
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