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1 [VERB 动词]遮盖；掩蔽 If you cover something, you place something else over it in order to protect it, hide it, or close it. [V n with n] [V n] [V-ed] Cover the casserole with a tight-fitting lid... 用大小合适的盖子盖住砂锅。 He whimpered and covered his face... 他掩面抽泣。 Keep what's left in a covered container in the fridge. 把剩下的食物装入带盖的容器，放进冰箱。
2 [VERB 动词]盖在…上面；铺在…上面 If one thing covers another, it has been placed over it in order to protect it, hide it, or close it. 3 [VERB 动词]盖；覆盖；遮住 If one thing covers another, it forms a layer over its surface. [V n] [be V-ed with/in n] The clouds had spread and nearly covered the entire sky... 云彩扩散开来，几乎遮住了整个天空。 Two oil slicks are covering a total area of seven square miles... 两层浮油漂浮在7平方英里的区域上。 The desk was covered with papers... 桌子上摆满了公文。 I looked in the mirror and saw that my face was covered in blood. 我照了照镜子，看见自己满脸是血。
4 [VERB 动词]用…遮盖；把…铺在…上 To cover something with or in something else means to put a layer of the second thing over its surface. The trees in your garden may have covered the ground with apples, pears or plums... 你花园里的果树也许已经落了一地的苹果、梨或李子。 She covered the walls with the signs of the zodiac. 她在墙上贴满了十二星座的标志。
5 [VERB 动词]行走(一段路程) If you cover a particular distance, you travel that distance. 6 [VERB 动词](用枪等)掩护 To cover someone or something means to protect them from attack, for example by pointing a gun in the direction of people who may attack them, ready to fire the gun if necessary. 7 [N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词](飞机等的)掩护，防护 Cover is protection from enemy attack that is provided for troops or ships carrying out a particular operation, for example by aircraft. 8 [N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词]躲避处；避难所；庇护所 Cover is trees, rocks, or other places where you shelter from the weather or from an attack, or hide from someone. 9 [VERB 动词]给…保险 An insurance policy that covers a person or thing guarantees that money will be paid by the insurance company in relation to that person or thing. Their insurer paid the £900 bill, even though the policy did not strictly cover it... 虽然严格来讲保险单并不包含这一项，他们的保险公司还是支付了那张900英镑的账单。 These items are not covered by your medical insurance... 这些项目不在你的医保范围之内。 You should take out travel insurance covering you and your family against theft. 你应该为自己和家人办理旅游保险以防偷盗。
10 [N-UNCOUNT 不可数名词](保险公司的)保险 Insurance cover is a guarantee from an insurance company that money will be paid by them if it is needed. 11 [VERB 动词](法律)适用于，涉及 If a law covers a particular set of people, things, or situations, it applies to them. The law covers four categories of experiments... 该法规适用于4类试验。 Like any other commodity, pedigree dogs are covered by the Sale of Goods Act. 像其他商品一样，纯种狗的买卖同样受《货物买卖法》的约束。
12 [VERB 动词](在演讲、课程或书中)讨论，涉及 If you cover a particular topic, you discuss it in a lecture, course, or book. The Oxford Chemistry Primers aim to cover important topics in organic chemistry... 《牛津化学初级读本》丛书旨在论述有机化学中的重要问题。 Other subjects covered included nerves and how to overcome them. 所涉及的其他主题包括焦虑及如何克服。
13 [VERB 动词]报道 If journalists, newspapers, or television companies cover an event, they report on it. 14 [VERB 动词](钱)足以支付，够付 If a sum of money covers something, it is enough to pay for it. Send it to the address given with £1.50 to cover postage and administration... 将它寄到指定地址，并附上1.50英镑以支付邮资和管理费。 Those figures might not even cover the cost of breakages. 那笔钱甚至都不够赔偿破损费。
15 [N-COUNT 可数名词]覆盖物；套子；罩子；盖子 A cover is something which is put over an object, usually in order to protect it. 16 [N-PLURAL 复数名词]被子；毯子；床单；床罩 The covers on your bed are the things such as sheets and blankets that you have on top of you. 17 [N-COUNT 可数名词](书刊的)封面，封皮 The cover of a book or a magazine is the outside part of it. A few years ago, David Byrne was on the cover of Time magazine. 几年前，大卫·拜恩曾登上《时代》周刊的封面。 ...a small spiral-bound booklet with a green cover... 有绿色封皮的螺旋装订的活页小册子 I used to read every issue from cover to cover. 以前我每一期都会从头读到尾。
18 [N-COUNT 可数名词](对秘密或违法之事的)掩盖，掩饰 Something that is a cover for secret or illegal activities seems respectable or normal, and is intended to hide the activities. 19 [VERB 动词](通过提供假信息或不完全的信息来)遮掩，掩盖，包庇 If you cover for someone who is doing something secret or illegal, you give false information or do not give all the information you have, in order to protect them. 20 [VERB 动词]代替，顶替(某人工作) If you cover for someone who is ill or away, you do their work for them while they are not there. 21 [VERB 动词]翻唱(歌曲) To cover a song originally performed by someone else means to record a new version of it. 22 [N-COUNT 可数名词]同 cover version A cover is the same as a cover version . 23 See also:covered ； covering ； 24 [PHRASE 短语]揭露，揭示(真实身份或工作的真实性质) To blow someone's cover means to cause their true identity or the true nature of their work to be revealed. [V inflects] [INFORMAL 非正式] Asking those kind of questions could blow my cover... 问那种问题会暴露我的身份。 The young man looked embarrassed, as if he were a spy whose cover had been blown. 那个年轻人看起来局促不安，就好像他是一个身份暴露的间谍一样。
25 [PHRASE 短语](通常为到达另一地点)离开隐蔽处，冲出躲藏处 If you break cover, you leave a place where you have been hiding or sheltering from attack, usually in order to run to another place. 26 [PHRASE 短语]躲避(炮火、轰炸或坏天气) If you take cover, you shelter from gunfire, bombs, or the weather. 27 [PHRASE 短语]在…的遮掩下(躲避炮火轰炸、坏天气等) If you are under cover, you are under something that protects you from gunfire, bombs, or the weather. 28 [PREP-PHRASE 短语介词]在…的掩护下 If you do something under cover of a particular situation, you are able to do it without being noticed because of that situation. 29 [PHRASE 短语]保护自己(免受批评、谴责等)；辩解 If you cover your back or cover your rear, you do something in order to protect yourself, for example against criticism or against accusations of doing something wrong. 30 [PHRASE 短语]同 cover your back Cover your ass means the same as cover your back . [V inflects] [INFORMAL 非正式] [RUDE 无礼] |