There are two features about him, then, which seem to strike every one, his unkemptness and his shyness. He expressed his ideas, which were already obscure, in a form which seemed to make them even more obscure. It has been said wittily that when digging out his ideas, he buried himself in them.[36] Later on, when he spoke at public meetings, he was noted for the nonsense he talked in his interminable and unintelligible harangues.英文原著 · 《George Sand》
"I only wish I knew the name of that gentleman; but I could not see him then, or I should certainly have found it out, though in answer to my brother's question as to his name, he simply replied, 'I am an obscure citizen.' What a commentary on our 'obscure citizens,' who know what it is to be gentlemen in something else besides the name--gentlemen in practice, not only in theory--and who can say with Burns that 'a mans a man for a' that,' whether his face be as black as midnight or as white as the driven snow.英文原著 · 《Henry Ossian Flipper》
But suppose all these things to me to be clear (which Providence however seems to have left obscure), yet whilst dissenters claim a toleration in things which, seeming clear to me, are obscure to them, without entering into the merit of the articles, with what face can these men say, Tolerate us, but do not tolerate them? Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.英文原著 · 《Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke》
For conclusion, I say the philosopher teacheth, but he teacheth obscurely, so as the learned only can understand him; that is to say, he teacheth them that are already taught. But the poet is the food for the tenderest stomachs; the poet is, indeed, the right popular philosopher. Whereof AEsop's tales give good proof; whose pretty allegories, stealing under the formal tales of beasts, make many, more beastly than beasts, begin to hear the sound of virtue from those dumb speakers.英文原著 · 《A Defence of Poesie and Poems》
Probably the writer refers either to bastions or towers, or to strongly fortified places of refuge on the hilltops. The passage is obscure. [412] -- Four words, TEMDES HUA PORTA PRIMCIPAL, have been accidentally omitted in the printed copy. [413] -- TERREIRO. The gateway here spoken of is most probably the great entrance to the palace enclosure, just to the north of the village of Kamalapur. [414] -- The writer forgot to fulfil this promise. [415] -- POR QUE SAO COMO AS COMFRARYAS que NAS NOSSAS PARTES HAA. [416] -- A MUYTOS NATURAES DA TERRA.英文原著 · 《A Forgotten Empire-Vijayanagar》
Osorio (Gibbs' translation, ii. 235) represents De Monroy as a man of a very cruel and licentious disposition. He was married to a niece of the governor. [551] -- They believed, that is, that their prestige would give them great moral superiority over the Hindus. [552] -- This passage is obscure. [553] -- See above, p. 327 and note. [554] -- The original has CAVAS E BAUDES.英文原著 · 《A Forgotten Empire-Vijayanagar》
I bought a basket of solar to obscure it-- ten names-- including Rayveon.美剧 · 《Billions》
Obscure the reason, but make it clear the timeframe is now.美剧 · 《Billions》
I did a run at the La Jolla playhouse in an obscure Tennessee Williams play.美剧 · 《Bojack Horseman》
But it sounds obscureand complicated, so chop-chop. be right there. hey, hey. Put that down. We gotta go.美剧 · 《Desperate Housewives》
And then, "Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand." And then, "Be obscure clearly! Be wild of tongue in a way we can understand."演讲 · 《The illustrated woman ~ Maira Kalman》