nebulous怎么用（nebulous模糊的不清楚的）

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nebulous怎么用

Word of the Day： August 2, 2022

nebulous

模糊的；不清楚的；星云的

adjective /NEB-yuh-lus/ [ˈnebjələs]

What It Means

Nebulous is often used as a synonym of indistinct or vague, but can also be used to refer to something that is related to or that resembles a nebula.

Nebulous 通常指 ndistinct 或者 vague的同义词，但也可以指与（类似）星云有关的事物

NEBULOUS in Context

"Instead of promoting nebulous concepts of 'diplomacy,' we should turn to the principles of negotiations and focus on concrete questions." — Anastassia Fedyk, The Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2022

“我们不应提倡‘外交’的模糊概念，而应转向谈判原则，专注于具体问题。”

Daniel’s description of the film was so nebulous that I’m still not quite sure what it is about.

丹尼尔对这部电影的描述如此模糊，以至于我仍然不太确定它是怎样的。

Did You Know?

Nebulous may sound other-worldly—after all, it’s related to nebula, which refers to a distant galaxy or an interstellar cloud of gas or dust—but its mysteriousness is rooted in more earthly unknowns. Both words ultimately come from Latin nebula, meaning “mist, cloud,” and as far back as the 14th century nebulous could mean simply “cloudy” or “foggy.” Nebulous has since the late 17th century been the adjective correlating to nebula (as in “nebulous gas”), but the word is more familiar in its figurative use, where it describes things that are indistinct or vague, as when Jack London wrote of “ideas that were nebulous at best and that in reality were remembered sensations.”

Nebulous 可能听起来超凡的—— 它与 nebula 有关，指遥远的星系或星际气体或尘埃云——但它的来源是神秘未知的。 这两个词最终都来自拉丁语 nebula，意思是“迷失「雾」、cloud「云」”，而早在 14 世纪，nebulous 就简单地用于“cloudy「多云的」”或“foggy「有雾的」”。 自 17 世纪后，Nebulous 就一直是与nebula「星云」有关的形容词（如“nebulous gas”），但它更多用于比喻用途，描述模糊的事物，就像 Jack London 写道“ 模糊的想法，实际上是记忆的感觉。”

Word Family Quiz

What relative of nebulous refers to the light depicted around the head of a divinity, saint, or sovereign in a picture, and also to a kind of cloud?

nimbus