[N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词](军事上的)伪装，隐蔽Camouflage consists of things such as leaves, branches, or brown and green paint, which are used to make it difficult for an enemy to see military forces and equipment.
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They were dressed in camouflage and carried automatic rifles.
他们身穿迷彩服，携带自动步枪。
...a camouflage jacket.
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...the mottled green camouflage scheme of most military vehicles.
多数军车采用的绿色斑驳伪装图案
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[VERB 动词]对(军事建筑或车辆)进行伪装；掩饰 If military buildings or vehicles are camouflaged, things such as leaves, branches, or brown and green paint are used to make it difficult for an enemy to see them.
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You won't see them from the air. They'd be very well camouflaged...
你从空中是看不见它们的，它们会被精心伪装起来。
They walked through the trees to a second hut, cunningly camouflaged against air surveillance.
他们穿过树林来到第二个棚子；这个棚子经过巧妙伪装，空中侦察不到。
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[VERB 动词]掩饰；隐瞒 If you camouflage something such as a feeling or a situation, you hide it or make it appear to be something different.
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He has never camouflaged his desire to better himself...
他从不掩饰自己的上进心。
I think that there has been an attempt to camouflage what really happened.
我认为，有人试图掩盖事情的真相。
Camouflage is also a noun.
The constant partygoing of her later years was a desperate camouflage for her grief.
她晚年不停地参加各种聚会，其实是在竭力掩饰心中的悲痛。
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[N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词](动物的)伪装(术)，保护色Camouflage is the way in which some animals are coloured and shaped so that they cannot easily be seen in their natural surroundings.
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Confident in its camouflage, being the same colour as the rocks, the lizard stands still when it feels danger.
由于和岩石颜色一样，蜥蜴对自己的保护色充满信心；遇到危险时，它便一动不动。
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cam·ou·flage/ˈkæməflɑːʒ; NAmEˈkæməflɑːʒ/
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camouflagecamouflagescamouflagedcamouflagingnoun1[uncountable ]a way of hiding soldiers and military equipment, using paint, leaves or nets, so that they look like part of their surroundings （军事上的）伪装，隐蔽◆a camouflage jacket (= covered with green and brown marks and worn by soldiers)迷彩夹克衫◆troops dressed in camouflage穿迷彩服的军队2[uncountable , singular ]the way in which an animal's colour or shape matches its surroundings and makes it difficult to see （动物的）保护色，保护形状3[uncountable , singular ]behaviour that is deliberately meant to hide the truth 隐瞒◆Her angry words were camouflage for the way she felt.她以气愤的言辞掩盖自己的真实感情。verbcamouflagesth (with sth) to hide sb/sth by making them or it look like the things around, or like sth else 伪装；掩饰◆The soldiers camouflaged themselves with leaves.士兵用树叶来伪装自己。◆Her size was camouflaged by the long loose dress she wore.她穿的那件宽松长裙遮掩了她身材的大小。☞synonyms at
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cam·ou·flage/ˈkæməflɑːʒ; NAmEˈkæməflɑːʒ/
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camouflage1 noun
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camouflagecam‧ou‧flage1 /ˈkæməflɑːʒ/ noun
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1[uncountable] a way of hiding something, especially soldiers and military equipment, by using paint, leaves etc to make it look like the things around it: soldiers learning camouflage technique the camouflage netting over the tanks2[uncountable] the type of green and brown clothes, paint etc that soldiers wear to make themselves more difficult to see: The men were dressed in camouflage and carrying automatic weapons. camouflage trousers3[singular, uncountable] the way that the colour or shape of an animal protects it by making it difficult to see in the area in which it lives: The whiteness of the arctic fox acts as camouflage, hiding it from its enemies.4[singular, uncountable] behaviour that is designed to hide somethingcamouflage for Aggression is often a camouflage for insecurity.
camouflage1 noun
camouflage2 verb
camouflagecamouflage2 verb [transitive]
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to hide something, especially by making it look the same as the things around it, or by making it seem like something elsecamouflage something with something I saw a truck, heavily camouflaged with netting and branches. The strain she was under was well camouflaged by skilful make-up.► see thesaurus at
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