shroud

noun

/ʃraʊd/

a piece of cloth that a dead person’s body is wrapped in before it is buried裹尸布；寿衣
- a burial shroud裹尸布
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Collocations Dictionary
adjective
- burial
- funeral
- mourning
- …
verb + shroud
- wrap somebody in
preposition
- in a/the shroud
- shroud of
shroud of something (literary) a thing that covers, surrounds or hides something覆盖物；遮蔽物
- The organization is cloaked in a shroud of secrecy.这个组织笼罩着一种诡秘的气氛。
- a shroud of smoke一片烟雾
- a shroud of darkness/mist一片黑暗／薄雾

词源late Old English scrūd ‘garment, clothing’, of Germanic origin, from a base meaning ‘cut’; related to shred. An early sense of the verb (Middle English) was ‘cover so as to protect’.

shroud

verb

/ʃraʊd/

[usually passive]

动词形式

present simple I / you / we / they shroud	/ʃraʊd/ /ʃraʊd/
he / she / it shrouds	/ʃraʊdz/ /ʃraʊdz/
past simple shrouded	/ˈʃraʊdɪd/ /ˈʃraʊdɪd/
past participle shrouded	/ˈʃraʊdɪd/ /ˈʃraʊdɪd/
-ing form shrouding	/ˈʃraʊdɪŋ/ /ˈʃraʊdɪŋ/

shroud something in something (of darkness, clouds, cloth, etc.黑暗、云、织物等) to cover or hide something覆盖；隐藏；遮蔽
- The city was shrouded in mist.城市笼罩在雾霭之中。
- furniture shrouded in dust sheets蒙着防尘罩的傢具
shroud something in something to hide information or keep it secret and mysterious隐瞒；保密
- His family background is shrouded in mystery.他的家庭背景蒙上了神秘的色彩。