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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- My uncle was scarcely able to conceal his impatience and dissatisfaction at the road continuing still to advance in a horizontal direction.
-- It was useless attempting to conceal from ourselves the fatal truth.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Since she had begun to work beyond the walls, she had found it necessary to conceal where she lived, and to come and go as secretly as she could, between the free city and the iron gates, outside of which she had never slept in her life.
-- 'If I have found it best to conceal where my home is, it is not because I am ashamed of him.
-- It were vain to conceal it.
-- It was an affecting illustration of the fallacy of human projects, to behold her lover, with the great hat pulled over his eyes, the velvet collar turned up as if it rained, the plum-coloured coat buttoned to conceal the silken waistcoat of golden sprigs, and the little direction-post pointing inexorably home, creeping along by the worst back-streets, and composing, as he went, the following new inscription for a tombstone in St George's Churchyard:'Here lie the mortal remains Of JOHN CHIVERY, Never anything worth mentioning, Who died about the end of the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty-six, Of a broken heart, Requesting with his last breath that the word AMY might be inscribed over his ashes, which was accordingly directed to be done, By his afflicted Parents.'
-- She is so true and so devoted, and knows so completely that all her love and duty are his for ever, that you may be certain she will love him, admire him, praise him, and conceal all his faults, until she dies.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Perhaps Meg felt, without understanding why, that they were not particularly cultivated or intelligent peo-ple, and that all their gilding could not quite conceal the ordinary material of which they were made.
-- She would very gladly have gone out to enjoy the bright wintry weath-er, but discovering that Laurie was dropping with sleep in spite of manful efforts to conceal the fact, she persuaded him to rest on the sofa, while she wrote a note to her mother.
-- said Jo, strolling along with her hands behind her, partly from habit, partly to conceal the bespat-tered parasol.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Ahab, my Captain, still moves before me in all his Nantucket grimness and shagginess; and in this episode touching Emperors and Kings, I must not conceal that I have only to do with a poor old whale-hunter like him; and, therefore, all outward majestical trappings and housings are denied me.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. Fagin did not seek to conceal his share in the catastrophe, but lamented with tears in his eyes that the wrong-headed and treacherous behaviour of the young person in question, had rendered it necessary that he should become the victim of certain evidence for the crown: which, if it were not precisely true, was indispensably necessary for the safety of him (Mr. Fagin) and a few select friends.
-- 'Do not conceal that from me, at least, Rose.'
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'But if a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeav-our to conceal it, he must find it out.'
-- 'You cannot be more than twenty, I am sure, therefore you need not conceal your age.'
-- Mrs. Collins, seeing that she was really unwell, did not press her to go and as much as possible prevented her husband from press-ing her; but Mr. Collins could not conceal his apprehension of Lady Catherine's being rather displeased by her staying at home.
-- There is but one part of my conduct in the whole affair on which I do not reflect with satisfaction; it is that I conde-scended to adopt the measures of art so far as to conceal from him your sister's being in town.
-- To no creature had it been re-vealed, where secrecy was possible, except to Elizabeth; and from all Bingley's connections her brother was particularly anxious to conceal it, from the very wish which Elizabeth had long ago attributed to him, of their becoming hereafter her own.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Well, at length I found a place in the side of the hill where I was satisfied I might securely wait till I saw any of their boats coming; and might then, even before they would be ready to come on shore, convey myself unseen into some thickets of trees, in one of which there was a hollow large enough to conceal me entirely; and there I might sit and observe all their bloody doings, and take my full aim at their heads, when they were so close together as that it would be next to impossible that I should miss my shot, or that I could fail wounding three or four of them at the first shot.
-- Upon the whole, I concluded that I ought, neither in principle nor in policy, one way or other, to concern myself in this affair: that my business was, by all possible means to conceal myself from them, and not to leave the least sign for them to guess by that there were any living creatures upon the island - I mean of human shape.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Soon after this, upon Elinor's leaving the room, "Mama," said Marianne, "I have an alarm on the subject of illness which I cannot conceal from you.
-- Sir John Middleton, who called on them every day for the first fortnight, and who was not in the habit of seeing much occupation at home, could not conceal his amazement on finding them always employed.
-- It may be proper to conceal their engagement (if they ARE engaged) from Mrs. Smith and if that is the case, it must be highly expedient for Willoughby to be but little in Devonshire at present.
-- We have neither of us any thing to tell; you, because you do not communicate, and I, because I conceal nothing."
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