| 词汇 | adumbrate |
| 释义 | adumbrateWord family nounadumbrationadjectiveadumbrativeverbadumbrateadverbadumbratively ad·um·brate /ˈædʌmbreɪt/ verb [transitiveT] formalFINISH DOING something to suggest or describe something in an incomplete way 约略显示；概述 Examples from the Corpus adumbrate• The incident adumbrates an attitude of mind which is mirrored in the linguistic techniques exploited later in the novel.• The essentials of this form of government may be adumbrated as follows.• De Smith has adumbrated four different tests which the courts have at one time or another used.• These considerations adumbrate the argument for the secondary role of consent in the justification of authority.• In this chapter, however, we want to adumbrate the principal features of the continuum view of non-linear viscoelasticity.• He told me that his civil servants had said that this was impossible, and adumbrated the problem to me. |
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