covert

英語

詞源

源自中古英語 covert，源自古法語 covert，covrir (「蓋」)（對應於拉丁語 coopertus）的過去分詞，與cover同源。

發音

• 形容詞：
  • (英國) 國際音標^(幫助): /ˈkʌvət/, /ˈkəʊvəːt/
  • (美國) 國際音標^(幫助): /ˈkoʊvəɹt/, /koʊˈvɜɹt/, /ˈkʌvəɹt/

  • （英國）音頻：

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• 名詞：
  • (英國) 國際音標^(幫助): /ˈkʌvət/, /ˈkəʊvəːt/, /ˈkʌvə/
  • (美國) 國際音標^(幫助): /ˈkʌvəɹt/, /ˈkoʊvəɹt/, /ˈkʌvəɹ/

• （英國）音頻：

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形容詞

covert (比較級 more covert，最高級 most covert)

1. (現罕用) 隱藏的，被遮蓋的
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.5:

     Within that wood there was a covert glade, / Foreby a narrow foord, to them well knowne […]

   • Template:RQ:Bacon Of Gardens

     to plant a covert alley

2. (比喻義) 秘密的，暗中的
   • Template:RQ:Shakespeare Julius Caesar
   • 1667, John Milton, 「Book 2」, 出自 Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], →OCLC; 再版為 Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:

     whether of open war or covert guile

     是巧施錦囊妙計，還是公開宣戰

   • 2013年7月26日, Leo Hickman, 「How algorithms rule the world」, 出自 The Guardian Weekly, 第 189 卷, 第 7 期，第 26 頁:

     The use of algorithms in policing is one example of their increasing influence on our lives. […] who, if anyone, is policing their use[?] Such concerns were sharpened further by the continuing revelations about how the US National Security Agency (NSA) has been using algorithms to help it interpret the colossal amounts of data it has collected from its covert dragnet of international telecommunications.

     （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）

3. (法律，歷史) 有丈夫的，受丈夫保護的

   近義詞：covert baron

   • 1880, Weekly Notes of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, the County Courts of Philadelphia, and the United States District and Circuit Courts for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, page 292:

     […] a separate use for a woman cannot be created unless she is covert, or unless in immediate contemplation of her marriage.

   • 1890, Albert Gibson, Robert McLean, Law Notes, page 77:

     […] in the second case, as long as the woman is covert she cannot anticipate the income, and a mere alienation of her interest is not an attempt to anticipate.

   • 1906, Abraham Clark Freeman, The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and Authority Subsequent to Those Contained in the "American Decisions" [1760-1869] and the "American Reports" [1869-1887] Decided in the Courts of Last Resort of the Several States [1886-1911], page 305:

     Being advised of the fact that the woman is covert, he stands charged with a knowledge of her disability . A married woman has no power to deal as principal if she is in fact a surety […]

近義詞

• 參見Thesaurus:covert
• feme covert

反義詞

• overt

衍生詞彙

• covert stuttering

相關詞彙

• cover

名詞

covert (複數 coverts)

1. 遮蓋物
2. 偽裝
3. 藏身處
4. （動物躲藏的）茂密草木
5. (鳥類學) 覆羽

異序詞

• corvet, vector

德語

發音

• 國際音標^(幫助): /ˈkavɐt/

• 音頻：

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動詞

covert

1. covern 的屈折：
   1. 第三人稱單數現在時
   2. 第二人稱複數現在時
   3. 第二人稱複數虛擬式一式
   4. 複數命令式

古法語

其他形式

• cuvert
• covri

詞源

源自拉丁語 coopertus。

動詞

covert

1. covrir 的過去時分詞

派生語彙

• 英語: covert
• 法語: couvert