cloak
cloak 英 [kləʊk] 美 [kloʊk]
n. 斗篷；宽大外衣；托词 vt. 遮掩；隐匿
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- A cloak is anything that conceals or hides something, like an over-sized, dark raincoat you wear when you don't want your friends to see you're going to the movies without them.
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- n. 斗篷；宽大外衣；托词
- vt. 遮掩；隐匿
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1. The snow covered up the fields with a white cloak.
积雪给田野盖上了一件白色的外衣。
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2. The long cloak she was wearing enveloped her completely.
她穿着的斗篷把她全包裹起来了。
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3. Seeing her appearance I began to ponder what she wore under her white cloak, or there was nothing at all?
看了她的样子，我就开始捉摸：她那件白大褂底下是穿了点什么呢，还是什么都没穿。
- cloak (n.) late 13c., "long, loose outer garment without sleeves," from Old North French cloque (Old French cloche, cloke) "traveling cloak," from Medieval Latin clocca "travelers' cape," literally "a bell," so called from the garment's bell-like shape (the word is thus a doublet of clock (n.1)).
- cloak (v.) cover with or as with a cloak," "c. 1500, from cloak (n.). Figuratively, "to cover up, hide, conceal" from 1540s. Related: Cloaked; cloaking.
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