shroud

英 [?ra?d] 美[?ra?d]

CET6+低頻詞常用詞匯TEM8GRE

復(fù)數(shù):?shrouds;第三人稱單數(shù):?shrouds;過去式:?shrouded;過去分詞:?shrouded;現(xiàn)在分詞:?shrouding;

shroud...........尸繞的（纏繞尸體用的）........尸布；遮蔽物

shroud 覆蓋物，遮蔽物

來自古英語 scrud,一件衣服，遮蓋物，來自 West-Germanic*skrud,切，剪，來自 PIE*sker,切，剪，詞源同 shred,shear.引申詞義遮蓋物，遮蔽物等。

shroud: shroud: [OE] Shroud originally meant simply ‘garment’ – a sense which survived into the early modern English period (‘My princely robes are laid aside, whose glittering pomp Diana’s shrouds supplies’, Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Nashe, Dido Queen of Carthage 1594). Not until the late 16th century did the modern meaning ‘winding-sheet’ begin to emerge. The word derives ultimately from the prehistoric West Germanic base *skraud-, *skreud-, *skrud- ‘cut’ (source also of English shred).
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shroud (n.): Old English scrud "a garment, clothing, dress," from West Germanic *skruthan, from Proto-Germanic *skrud- "cut" (cognates: Old Norse skrue "shrouds of a ship, tackle, gear; furniture of a church," Danish, Swedish skrud "dress, attire"), from PIE *skreu- "to cut" (see shred (n.)).

Specific meaning "winding-sheet, cloth or sheet for burial," to which the word now is restricted, first attested 1560s. Sense of "strong rope supporting the mast of a ship" (mid-15c.) is from the notion of "clothing" a spar or mast; one without rigging was said to be naked.
shroud (v.): c. 1300, "to clothe, to cover, protect," from Old English scrydan, scridan "to clothe, dress;" see shroud (n.). Meaning "to hide from view, conceal" (transitive) is attested from early 15c. Related: Shrouded; shrouding.

4. Ministers are as keen as ever to wrap their activities in a shroud of secrecy.: 部長們都一如既往地迫切想要將他們的行動(dòng)搞得神神秘秘的。