occult

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英英釋義實用場景例句

GRE低頻詞擴展詞匯

occult 神秘的，玄妙的

oc-,在上，表強調(diào)，-cul,隱藏，覆蓋，詞源同hole,cellar,hell.即隱藏的，覆蓋的，引申詞義神秘的，玄妙的。

occult: occult: [16] Something that is occult is etymologically ‘hidden’. The word comes from the past participle of Latin occulere ‘hide’, a compound verb formed from the prefix ob- and an unrecorded *celere, a relative of cēlāre ‘hide’ (which forms the second syllable of English conceal). When English acquired it, it still meant broadly ‘secret, hidden’ (‘Metals are nothing else but the earth’s hid and occult plants’, John Maplet, Green Forest 1567), a sense preserved in the derived astronomical term occultation ‘obscuring of one celestial body by another’ [16].

The modern associations with supernatural mysteries did not begin to emerge until the 17th century.
=> cell, conceal, hall, hell
occult (adj.): 1530s, "secret, not divulged," from Middle French occulte and directly from Latin occultus "hidden, concealed, secret," past participle of occulere "cover over, conceal," from ob "over" (see ob-) + a verb related to celare "to hide," from PIE root *kel- (2) "to cover, conceal" (see cell). Meaning "not apprehended by the mind, beyond the range of understanding" is from 1540s. The association with the supernatural sciences (magic, alchemy, astrology, etc.) dates from 1630s.

2. Were not all things charged with occult virtues?: 所有的一切事情,難道不是都有隱藏的品質(zhì)?

3. He and the black - leather fellow looked very occult.: 他和那個象黑皮革似的家伙顯得很神秘.