英语
词源
源自中古英语 covert,源自古法语 covert,covrir (“盖”)(对应于拉丁语 coopertus)的过去分词,与cover同源。
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形容词
covert(比较级 more covert,最高级 most covert)
- (现已罕用) 隐藏的,被遮盖的
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.5:
- Within that wood there was a covert glade, / Foreby a narrow foord, to them well knowne […]
- Template:RQ:Bacon Of Gardens
- to plant a covert alley
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.5:
- (比喻义) 秘密的,暗中的
- Template:RQ:Shakespeare Julius Caesar
- 1667,John Milton,“Book 2”,出自 Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books,London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […],London:Basil Montagu Pickering […],1873, OCLC 230729554:
- whether of open war or covert guile
- 是巧施锦囊妙计,还是公开宣战
- 2013年7月26日,Leo Hickman,“How algorithms rule the world”,出自 The Guardian Weekly,卷号189,期号7, 页号26:
- The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives. […] who, if anyone, is policing their use[?] Such concerns were sharpened further by the continuing revelations about how the US National Security Agency (NSA) has been using algorithms to help it interpret the colossal amounts of data it has collected from its covert dragnet of international telecommunications.
- (请为本引文添加中文翻译)
- (法律, 历史) 有丈夫的,受丈夫保护的
- 近义词: covert baron
- 1880, Weekly Notes of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, the County Courts of Philadelphia, and the United States District and Circuit Courts for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, page 292:
- […] a separate use for a woman cannot be created unless she is covert, or unless in immediate contemplation of her marriage.
- 1890, Albert Gibson, Robert McLean, Law Notes, page 77:
- […] in the second case, as long as the woman is covert she cannot anticipate the income, and a mere alienation of her interest is not an attempt to anticipate.
- 1906, Abraham Clark Freeman, The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and Authority Subsequent to Those Contained in the "American Decisions" [1760-1869] and the "American Reports" [1869-1887] Decided in the Courts of Last Resort of the Several States [1886-1911], page 305:
- Being advised of the fact that the woman is covert, he stands charged with a knowledge of her disability . A married woman has no power to deal as principal if she is in fact a surety […]
近义词
- 参见Thesaurus:covert
- feme covert
反义词
衍生词汇
- covert stuttering
相关词汇
名词
covert(复数 coverts)
异序词
- corvet, vector
德语
发音
动词
covert
古法语
其他形式
- cuvert
- covri
词源
源自拉丁语 coopertus。
动词
covert