英语释义

1. to guard from attack

2. to have within the range of one's guns command
The ships were covering approaches to the harbor.

3. to hold within range of an aimed firearm
The deputy covered the sheriff who was apprehending the suspect.

4. to afford protection or security to insure
a policy covering the traveler in all kinds of accidents

5. to afford protection against or compensation (see compensation sense 2) for
a policy covering loss by fire

6. to guard (an opponent) in order to obstruct a play
a linebacker assigned to cover the tight end

7. to be in position to receive a throw to (a base in baseball)
The shortstop was covering second.

8. to make provision for (a demand or charge) by means of a reserve or deposit
Your balance is insufficient to cover the check.

9. to maintain a check on especially by patrolling
motorcycle police covering the highways

10. to protect by contrivance or expedient

11. to hide from sight or knowledge conceal
cover up a scandal

12. to lie over envelop
a blanket covering her legs

13. to lay or spread something over overlay
Cover the seedbed with straw.

14. to spread over
Snow covered the hills.

15. to appear here and there on the surface of
a region covered with lakes

16. to place or set a cover or covering over
Cover the pot.

17. to copulate with (a female animal)
a horse covers a mare

18. to sit on and incubate (eggs)

19. to invest with a large or excessive amount of something
covered herself with glory

20. to play a higher-ranking card on (a previously played card)

21. to have sufficient scope to include or take into account
an examination covering a full year's work

22. to deal with treat
material covered in the first chapter

23. to have as one's territory or field of activity
One sales rep covers the whole state.

24. to report news about
reporters covering the campaign

25. to pass over traverse
Tthe hikers covered 12 miles that day.

26. to defray the cost of
cover expenses

27. to place one's stake in equal jeopardy with in a bet

28. to buy securities or commodities for delivery against (an earlier short sale)

29. to record or perform a cover of (a song)

30. to conceal something illicit, blameworthy, or embarrassing from notice —usually used with up
cover up for a careless coworker

31. to act as a substitute or replacement during an absence
a stand-in covering for an injured star

32. to conceal traces in order to elude pursuers or escape detection

33. to deal with a subject or assignment in a particular manner
The new book covers a lot of ground.

34. something that protects, shelters, or guards: such as

35. natural shelter for an animal also the factors that provide such shelter

36. a position or situation affording protection from enemy fire

37. the protection offered by airplanes in tactical support of a military operation

38. coverage sense 1a

39. something that is placed over or about another thing:

40. lid, top

41. a binding or case for a book or the analogous part of a magazine also the front or back of such a binding

42. an overlay or outer layer especially for protection
a mattress cover

43. a tablecloth and the other table accessories

44. cover charge

45. roof

46. a cloth used on a bed for warmth or for decoration —usually used in plural
lying under the covers

47. something (such as vegetation or snow) that covers the ground

48. the extent to which clouds obscure the sky

49. something that conceals or obscures
under cover of darkness

50. a masking device pretext
The project was a cover for intelligence operations.

51. an envelope or wrapper for mail

52. one who substitutes for another during an absence

53. a recording or performance of a song previously recorded by another performer

54. in an envelope or wrapper

55. under concealment in secret

56. to put something over, on top of, or in front of (something else) especially in order to protect, hide, or close it

57. to be spread over or on top of (something)

58. to be over much or all of the surface of (something)

59. something that is put around or on top of another thing especially to protect, hide, or close it

60. a blanket or sheet on a bed

61. the outer part of a book or magazine

62. to place or spread something over
Cover the pot. She covered her head with a cloth and said a special prayer …
— Lois Lowry, Number the Stars

63. to be spread with or extend over much or all of the surface of
His face is covered with freckles.

64. to form a covering over
Snow covered the ground.

65. to pass over or through
The bikers covered 50 miles a day.

66. to provide protection to or against
Soldiers covered the landing with artillery.

67. to maintain a check on by patrolling
Police cover the highways.

68. to hide from sight or knowledge
I covered my embarrassment.

69. to deal with as a subject
The test will cover everything we've studied so far.

70. to have as a field of activity or interest
Our newspaper employs a reporter covering the courthouse.

71. to provide insurance for

72. something that protects, shelters, or hides

73. a covering (as a blanket) used on a bed

74. a binding or a protecting case
a book cover

75. something that is placed over or about another thing lid, top
a mattress cover the cover of a box

76. insure
this policy covers other family drivers

77. to give protection against or compensation or indemnification for
doesn't cover flood damage

78. to obtain cover
where the seller anticipatorily repudiates a contract and the buyer does not cover
— Cosden Oil & Chemical Co. v. Karl O. Helm AG, 736 F.2d 1064 (1984)

79. purchase of goods in substitution for those originally contracted for when the seller fails to fulfill the contract
the buyer is always free to choose between cover and damages for nondelivery
— Uniform Commercial Code also the substituted goods Note: Under the Uniform Commercial Code, when a seller does not perform on a contract, the buyer has the option of covering, with the seller paying the difference between the cost of the cover and the original contract price, or seeking damages for nonperformance. Reselling is the seller's comparable remedy when a buyer does not perform under a contract.

片语

under separate cover在另函中

under the cover遮盖着

undercover agent卧底；警方密探

under superficial cover冠冕堂皇

under plain cover以普通信封寄发

regeneration under crown cover林冠下更新

under r cover to附在信中

tunnel under shallow cover浅埋隧道

send under plain cover用不注明发信人姓名的封皮寄发

under insurance cover根据保险涵盖

英汉例句

• the respectable kurier newspaper reported that she had been brought to the court under cover of darkness from the nearby clinic where she and her family are living for the duration of the trial.

  着名的kurier报纸报道说，伊丽莎白是乘着夜色从附近的心理诊所被带到法庭里的。她和她的家人在案件审判期间都会住在哪里。

• the yacht made landfall under cover of darkness.

  游艇在夜幕的掩护下靠岸了。

• the businessman, the politician and almost every human being is pursuing, under cover of respectability, his own secret desires and appetites, and this is producing chaos in the world.

  商人、政客和几乎每个人都在高尚的外表下追求着他自己隐蔽的渴望和欲望，而这在世界上制造了混乱。

• under cover of darkness the general and less than half his army escaped, leaving his precious wagons to be captured by peter’s elated troops.

  最终在夜色的掩护下，这位将军和不到一半的部队逃脱了，身后将宝贵的补给车留给了彼得兴高采烈的部队。

• we got to the station and went in under cover .

  我们到了车站，进入能避雨的地方。

• to keep poachers from slipping in under cover of darkness, patrols continue long after sunset and begin again before dawn.

  为了防止偷猎分子趁着夜色的掩护偷偷溜进保护区，巡逻队在日落之后还要继续巡视很久，而且第二天还要赶在拂晓前进行巡逻。

• yet history would come to fort monroe not amid the thunder of guns and the clash of fleets, but stealthily, under cover of darkness, in a stolen boat.

  但是monroe要塞被载入史册并不是因为枪林弹雨，而是因为一艘在黑暗中悄然行动的被盗船只。

• reinforcements were sent across the river under cover of darkness.

  在夜幕的掩护下，增援力量被派到了河的对岸。

• under cover of these be in imminent danger the animal returns to have no to disappear forever, we wants to represent they plead loudly.

  趁着这些濒危动物还没有永远地消失，我们要代表它们大声疾呼。

• patek was protected by a qaeda operative, a postal clerk who worked under cover at the main post office, a signal that al qaeda may have had other operatives in the area.

  patek受到一个表面是在主要邮局工作的邮递员的基地情报人员的保护，可能基地组织在该区域还有其他的情报人员。

• below the now frenetic promenade, boats laden with opium would unload their deadly cargo under cover of darkness, while in the nearby jungles and mountains, warlords fought bloody battles.

  就在现在忙乱的广场下方，装满鸦片的船只在夜色中卸下致命的货物；在附近的丛林和山地中，军阀们在浴血作战。

• their goal was to forge links with the rebels but their arrival, apparently unannounced and under cover of darkness, alarmed the libyans, who took them hostage.

  他们一行的目的是与反政府武装建立联系，然而由于他们的「到来」——很明显是未提前通告并且是在黑夜掩护下抵达的——却吓到了利比亚人，随即将他们扣为人质。

• yet, keeping these household water collections free from mosquito breeding only requires simple measures: storing drinking water under cover so that mosquitoes cannot deposit their eggs.

  然而，要使这些家庭储水器没有蚊子繁殖，只需采取简单措施：将储存的饮用水覆盖，使蚊子不能在那里产卵。

• we are sending you under cover a price list.

  我们为您寄去了一份价目表。

• i woke under cover of darkness.

  我在黑暗之中醒来。

• under cover of night, driving through the desert or landing from helicopters, america’s marines went 「big, strong, fast」 into the taliban’s strongholds in helmand province.

  在黑夜的掩护下驾车穿越沙漠或搭乘直升机着陆，美国的海军陆战队对赫尔曼德省的塔利班据点进行了「大规模、高强度、快速的」打击。

• before god and the message is not heard too much, only under cover of darkness, a little reluctant efforts to piece together the clouds tear.

  之前，天公并没有传出太多的讯息，只是在夜幕的掩饰下，稍加力度把不太情愿的云朵扯拼在一起。

• in the night the armed men who were enclosed in the body of the horse, being let out by the traitor sinon, opened the gated of the city to their friends who had returned under cover of the night.

  半夜?，载在木马腹中的武装士兵们由间谍西农放了出来，他们打开城门迎接在黑夜掩护下返回来的战友们。

相似词

fill in填写；填充；替代

pinch-hit（棒球）替补击球；（非正式）紧急替代

step in介入；插手干预；作短时间的非正式访问

sub代替

substitute代用品；代替者

take over接管；接收