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He issued a thinly veiled threat to attack Col. Gadhafi's forces still on the offensive in the cities of Ajdabiya and Misrata.
洛克利爾對仍在攻打阿加達比亞和米蘇拉塔的卡扎菲武裝部隊發(fā)出了幾乎不加掩飾的威脅。
Inside, a heavyset older woman, head partly veiled, sat behind a wooden counter on top of which rested a row of variously sized glass bottles.
里面是一位大塊頭的老婦人，臉上一半蒙著面紗，坐在一個木制柜臺后面，上面擺滿了一排大小各異的玻璃酒瓶。
If we want to believe, as Einstein did, that there is a reality independent of our observations, then this reality can either be knowable, unknowable or veiled.
如果我們象愛因斯坦一樣，相信有一個獨立于我們的觀測的實在，那么這個實在或者是可知的，或者是不可知的，或者是被遮蔽的。

(NO TRANSCRIPTS) The Ayatollah used thinly veiled language to address the country's reformist leaders, without naming them, to insist that they be careful about what they say or do.
But myths are fanciful, imaginative tales that are trying to explain The existence of either a thing or a practice or even a belief Sometimes it's a story that's a veiled explanation of a truth, We think of parables, perhaps, or allegories.
但是杜撰故事就這些充滿想象力的故事，它們試圖解釋,事物或者行為習慣的存在，或者是信仰,有時候，它在故事中還蘊含著真理，比如圣經中的寓言故事，或者啟發(fā)故事。
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His barely veiled contempt for most of Russia's ruling class reflects his different origins.
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They have not even been (despite what some might think) veiled efforts at such conquest.
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A veiled comment is expressed in a disguised form rather than directly and openly.
A woman or girl who is veiled is wearing a veil.