obscure

• adj. 昏暗的，朦朧的；晦澀的，不清楚的；隱蔽的；不著名的，無名的
• vt. 使…模糊不清，掩蓋；隱藏；使難理解
• n. 某種模糊的或不清楚的東西

來自拉丁語obscurus,黑暗的，遮蓋的，來自ob-,在上，表強調，-scurus,遮蓋的，來自PIE*skeu,遮蓋，隱藏，詞源同sky,house,hide.引申詞義使費解，模糊。

obscure

obscure: see sky

obscure (adj.)

c. 1400, "dark," figuratively "morally unenlightened; gloomy," from Old French obscur, oscur "dark, clouded, gloomy; dim, not clear" (12c.) and directly from Latin obscurus "dark, dusky, shady," figuratively "unknown; unintelligible; hard to discern; from insignificant ancestors," from ob "over" (see ob-) + -scurus "covered," from PIE *(s)keu- "to cover, conceal" (see sky). Related: Obscurely.

obscure (v.)

early 15c., "to cover (something), cloud over," from obscure (adj.) or else from Middle French obscurer, from Latin obscurare "to make dark, darken, obscure," from obscurus. Related: Obscured; obscuring.

1. Rumour, myth and hearsay obscure the truth after months of bloodshed.

殺戮持續了數月後，真相在謠言、謊話和傳聞的遮掩下變得模糊不清。

來自柯林斯例句

2. These obscure groups were of little account in national politics.

這些名不見經傳的團體在國內政界無足輕重。

來自柯林斯例句

3. Richard's statement was disgracefully obscure.

理查德的聲明隱晦費解，真是丟人。

來自柯林斯例句

4. an obscure German poet

一個名不見經傳的德國詩人

來自《權威詞典》

5. The joke did not obscure the underlying seriousness of his point.

玩笑並沒有掩蓋他的觀點隱含的嚴肅性.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》