conceal是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 隐藏, 隐蔽，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There probably was something more to conceal than her own preference; Mr. Dixon, perhaps, had been very near changing one friend for the other, or been fixed only to Miss Campbell, for the sake of the future twelve thousand pounds.
-- He had no reason to wish his hair longer, to conceal any confusion of face; no reason to wish the money unspent, to improve his spirits.
-- They sang together once more; and Emma would then resign her place to Miss Fairfax, whose performance, both vocal and instrumental, she never could attempt to conceal from her-self, was infinitely superior to her own.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But a manly resolve to recognize boldly that he had no longer a lover's interest in her, helped him occasionally to conceal a feeling.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He might be seen any day sailing like a gray shadow along the walks of the Jardin des Plantes, on his head a shabby cap, a cane with an old yellow ivory handle in the tips of his thin fingers; the outspread skirts of his threadbare overcoat failed to conceal his meagre figure; his breeches hung loosely on his shrunken limbs; the thin, blue-stockinged legs trembled like those of a drunken man; there was a notable breach of continuity between the dingy white waistcoat and crumpled shirt frills and the cravat twisted about a throat like a turkey gobbler's; altogether, his appearance set people wondering whether this outlandish ghost belonged to the audacious race of the sons of Japhet who flutter about on the Boulevard Italien.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Beaufort had taken effectual measures to conceal him-self, and it was ten months before my father discovered his abode.
-- During this conversation I had retired to a corner of the prison room, where I could conceal the horrid anguish that possessed me.
-- Again I rose, and exerting all the firmness of which I was master, removed the planks which I had placed before my hovel to conceal my retreat.
-- Here I paused, not exactly knowing what path to pursue, when I heard the sound of voices, that induced me to conceal myself under the shade of a cypress.
-- I tried to conceal this as much as possible, that I might not debar him from the pleasures natural to one who was entering on a new scene of life, undisturbed by any care or bitter recollection.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Most of all she learned how to conceal from men a sharp intelligence beneath a face assweet and bland as a baby's.
-- It was Gerald's headstrong and impetuous nature in her that gave them concern,and they sometimes feared they would not be able to conceal her damaging qualities until she had made a good match.
-- The other boys were puzzled and annoyed by herobvious interest in him, for they knew Charles was too shy to hitch two consecutive words together, and politeness wasbeing severely strained to conceal their growing rage.
-- And conceal all their feelings and desires and little heartbreaks behind a lot of sweet words.
-- It was as though he bore an impersonal contempt for everyone and everything in the South, the Confederacy inparticular, and toot no pains to conceal it.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But he did not conceal from me that, although there might be many cases in which the forfeiture would not be exacted, there were no circumstances in this case to make it one of them.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But when he heard my voice, and found what I delivered to be regular and rational, he could not conceal his astonishment.
-- I retreated to the farther corner of my room; or box; but the monkey looking in at every side, put me in such a fright, that I wanted pres-ence of mind to conceal myself under the bed, as I might easily have done.
-- He said, 'he knew no reason why those, who entertain opinions prejudicial to the pub-lic, should be obliged to change, or should not be obliged to conceal them.
-- He said, 'my discourse was all very strange, but especially the last part; for he could not understand, why nature should teach us to conceal what nature had given; that neither himself nor family were ashamed of any parts of their bodies; but, however, I might do as I pleased.'
-- I requested likewise, 'that the secret of my having a false covering to my body, might be known to none but himself, at least as long as my present clothing should last; for as to what the sorrel nag, his valet, had observed, his honour might command him to conceal it.'
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "It may be so, sir," I timidly observed, "but why conceal it from posterity, if it be a useful, a worthy discovery?"
-- "You said, sir--" "Yes, yes, all is clear, I see the link in the chain; everything is explained, and I now understand why Arne Saknussemm, put out of court, forced to hide his magnificent discoveries, was compelled to conceal beneath the veil of an incomprehensible cryptograph, the secret--" "What secret?"
-- I must confess that his artful grimaces, put on to conceal his happiness, made him look like a new Mephistopheles.
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