shroud
noun/ʃraʊd/
/ʃraʊd/
- a piece of cloth that a dead person’s body is wrapped in before it is buried
裹尸布；寿衣 - a burial shroud
裹尸布
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- burial
- funeral
- mourning
- …
- wrap somebody in
- in a/the shroud
- shroud of
- a burial shroud
- shroud of something (literary) a thing that covers, surrounds or hides something
覆盖物；遮蔽物 - The organization is cloaked in a shroud of secrecy.
这个组织笼罩着一种诡秘的气氛。 - a shroud of smoke
一片烟雾 - a shroud of darkness/mist
一片黑暗／薄雾
- The organization is cloaked in a shroud of secrecy.
Word Originlate Old English scrūd ‘garment, clothing’, of Germanic origin, from a base meaning ‘cut’; related to shred. An early sense of the verb (Middle English) was ‘cover so as to protect’.