Obscure

(verb.) make obscure or unclear; 'The distinction was obscured'.

(verb.) make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing; 'a hidden message'; 'a veiled threat'.

(verb.) reduce a vowel to a neutral one, such as a schwa.

(verb.) make less visible or unclear; 'The stars are obscured by the clouds'; 'the big elm tree obscures our view of the valley'.

(adj.) not clearly understood or expressed; 'an obscure turn of phrase'; 'an impulse to go off and fight certain obscure battles of his own spirit'-Anatole Broyard; 'their descriptions of human behavior become vague, dull, and unclear'- P.A.Sorokin; 'vague...forms of speech...have so long passed for mysteries of science'- John Locke .

(adj.) not drawing attention; 'an unnoticeable cigarette burn on the carpet'; 'an obscure flaw' .

(adj.) not famous or acclaimed; 'an obscure family'; 'unsung heroes of the war' .

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• Let it be somewhere beyond reach; in some obscure life--or, better still, in some obscure death. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• I felt as if, from the order of the systematic world, I had plunged into chaos, obscure, contrary, unintelligible. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• He resumed-- And since I am myself poor and obscure, I can offer you but a service of poverty and obscurity. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• The conception always precedes the understanding; and where the one is obscure, the other is uncertain; where the one fails, the other must fail also. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• I was able to invent names for my parents, whom I pretended to be obscure people in the province of Gelderland. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• The vault above became obscured, lightning flashed from the heavy masses, followed instantaneously by crashing thunder; then the big rain fell. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• It was as the day went on that the clouds gathered, and the brightness of the morning became obscured. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The atmosphere was much denser then, usually great cloud masses obscured the sun, frequent storms darkened the heavens. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Such parts, whether more or less modified, unless their common origin became wholly obscured, would be serially homologous. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• If he were groping in the dark, he could not do better than do his utmost to clear away those clouds in which so much was confused and obscured. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Again and again he crosses and obscures the disc I want always to see clear; ever and anon he renders me to you a mere bore and nuisance. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Far back in the obscuring gloom of a prehistoric antiquity, man wore probably only the hirsute covering which nature gave him. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• The social aim of education and its national aim were identified, and the result was a marked obscuring of the meaning of a social aim. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• But this latter argument, obscuring the majesty of the former, was one too many, for Ben answered contemptuously, The more spooneys they! 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Tom was last; and remained standing in the obscurest part of the room, near the door. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.

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