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 obscurity [әb'skjuәriti]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 阴暗, 朦胧, 晦涩, 费解, 身份低微



    obscurity
    [ noun ]
    1. the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand

      2. <noun.attribute>
    2. an obscure and unimportant standing; not well known

      3. <noun.state>
      he worked in obscurity for many years
    3. the state of being indistinct or indefinite for lack of adequate illumination

      4. <noun.state>


    obscurity \ob*scu"ri*ty\ ([o^]b*sk[=u]"r[i^]*t[y^]), n. [L.
    obscuritas: cf. F. obscurit['e].]
    The quality or state of being obscure.

    Syn: darkness; privacy; inconspicuousness;
    unintelligibleness; uncertainty.

    You are not for obscurity designed. --Dryden.

    They were now brought forth from obscurity, to be
    contemplated by artists with admiration and
    despair. --Macaulay.

    Syn: Darkness; dimness; gloom. See {Darkness}.

    1. His bare-bones style of drawing, unconventional use of multiple frames, self-described "strange" sense of humor and employment by a newspaper not prominent nationally all contributed to his obscurity, the magazine said.
    2. After that introduction to obscurity, ABC transferred the show to 8 o'clock Thursday, where it went up against NBC's "The Cosby Show."
    3. "Lost Boundaries" fell into obscurity when the company that owned it, Film Classics, folded; its catalog was sold to Warner Bros. The chance of re-releasing or televising it now is slim because it's unclear who owns the distribution rights.
    4. Now, this son of Japanese immigrants has astounded Peruvians with a meteoric rise from obscurity.
    5. The world has moved on, and while some artists have fallen into obscurity, following generations, of sculptors especially, have had their day in their turn.
    6. But the most bitter of the Enlightenment's contemporary opponents was the Prussian-born writer Johann Georg Hamann, the 'Magus of the North' who is the subject of Isaiah Berlin's new book. Berlin's aim is to reclaim Hamann from obscurity.
    7. The Athens Stock Exchange, after years of obscurity, is on a surge that's starting to attract international interest.
    8. Lockerbie lost its quiet obscurity just after 7:03 that cold Wednesday night, when explosives hidden in a radio-cassette recorder shattered the Pan Am jet "Maid of the Seas."
    9. She soared west across the Atlantic on a celebrated dare 52 years ago, and then fell into obscurity.
    10. After the fall, Khrushchev sank into obscurity.
    11. "It was all sort of a big love affair." Venezuelan artists once labored in obscurity, gaining recognition only after their deaths.
    12. While some neglected stocks may be bargains that should eventually rise in price as they catch the eye of other investors, other neglected issues are simply dogs that are destined to languish in well-deserved obscurity.
    13. When Douglas left Columbus, Ohio, and headed for Tokyo to fight Tyson, he left in obscurity.
    14. Less than two miles away, "help wanted" signs festoon the stores in and around Dock Square as Kennebunkport awakens from its off-season slumber to begin what may be remembered as its last summer of relative obscurity.
    15. Until the dramatic developments of the past week, Dubcek has lived in relative obscurity in the Slovak capital of Bratislava.
    16. The bank's borrowing is estimated above $1 billion, but Bullock said he hopes Bank of New England "will be out of the Fed by April." "People look at borrowing from the Fed as a trend line to obscurity.
    17. But obscurity seems to be the order of the week.
    18. The obscurity prize went to Edouard Balladur of France with a dismal 80 per cent.
    19. Any assessment of North Korea's nuclear agreement with the US has to be tentative while the fine print remains shrouded in obscurity.
    20. Gatt is obscurity squared. The deeper answer is that bilateral pacts, such as the planned agreement with Mexico, are more acceptable to the aggressive American psyche that the abstract logic of multilateral trade liberalisation.
    21. Is this the year that Jean Alesi finally brings Ferrari back from obscurity?
    22. He now holds Pounds 10m in Royal Bank shares, less than a third of the 1.5 per cent the Moffats have held all along in glorious obscurity.
    23. But although the Madrid conferrants had the decency to put the word in tentative inverted commas, after them came the deluge of obscurity. So it is right for their successors to have the job of clearing up the confusion.
    24. Meat-judging matchups have been taking place in almost total obscurity since 1926, when all the competitors were women and the sport was an adjunct of college home-economics classes.
    25. Khrushchev, who holds a doctorate in computer science, lived in relative obscurity for more than 20 years after his father lost power.
    26. Dubcek has returned from political obscurity to address crowds for four days running in Prague and his native Bratislava.
    27. It will not settle into the obscurity likely to envelop John Andrews's first novel, "A Viking's Daughter" (Doubleday, 307 pages, $18.95).
    28. Karnes, a lawyer for an Omaha grain company, was plucked from political obscurity in 1986 when newly elected GOP Gov. Kay Orr chose him to succeed Democratic Sen. Edward Zorinsky, who died of a heart attack.
    29. In five years, Blue Arrow has leaped from obscurity to become Britain's largest employment-services company.
    30. The bad news for Milken, considered the driving force behind Drexel's leap from obscurity to become the fifth largest U.S. securities firm, came in a 12-page plea agreement signed by Drexel officials Tuesday and made public Wednesday.
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