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单词 revelation
释义
revelation
noun[CorU]
uk
/ˌrev.əˈleɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌrev.əˈleɪ.ʃən/
C2
theactof making somethingknownthat wassecret, or afactthat is madeknown:
暴露；被揭示的真相，被揭露的内情
amomentof revelation真相大白的一刻
[+ that]Hiswifedivorcedhim after the revelationthathe was having anaffair.他的婚外情暴露后，他的妻子和他离了婚。
Shocking revelationsabouttheirprivatelifeappearedin thepapers.有关他们私生活的惊人内幕见诸报端。
come as/be a revelation
C2
to be anextremelypleasantsurprise:
让人大开眼界；令人耳目一新；出乎意料地使人惊喜
Thisbookcame as acompleterevelationtome.这本书使我茅塞顿开。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Revealing secrets & becoming known
  • (the) word is/gets outidiom
  • anti-secrecy
  • backchannel
  • bare
  • blowsomeone'scoveridiom
  • blow/take the lid offsomethingidiom
  • break
  • declassify
  • hold
  • huddle
  • Queen's evidence
  • rat
  • rat onsomeone/something
  • reintroduce
  • revealingly
  • revelatory
  • state's evidence
  • tip
  • transpire
  • unload
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Surprising and shocking
(Definition ofrevelationfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

revelation| American Dictionary

revelation
noun[C/U]
us
/ˌrev·əˈleɪ·ʃən/
theactof makingknownsomething that wassecret, or afactthat has been madeknown:
[C]The firstplanetdiscoveredaround anordinarystarwas astrangeandunexpectedrevelation.
(Definition ofrevelationfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofrevelation

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Their chances of winning increase as the chance of the incumbents' re-election decreases, so the opposition benefits from revelations of corruption involving incumbents.
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However productive chemistry might prove in an applied sense, chemists declared their dependence on nature for any truthful revelations.
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His diaries do not contain any secret revelations.
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Clearly the book contains a number of interesting revelations and stimulating arguments.
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Private revelations need only impact the brain ; public experiences may be accomplished by the same feat (in each observer), or by an actual outside-the-head event.
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Personal mental revelations need only arrange for small electrical disturbances in the brain, perhaps through latent chemical imbalances.
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There are a few revelations, but too many disappointments.
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Not only did this unblock political discourse, it opened the way for the revelations of tangentopoli.
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The selected letters are full of revelations and insights such as this.
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As to the revelations themselves, we leave the public to place what reliance upon them they please.
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Referring to the believer's psyche will not provide adequate grounds for making normative claims of the sort required (namely, that a proposition expresses revelation's ' essential nature ').
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The importance of natural processes in any human activity cannot be denied, and their simultaneous simplicity and complexity continually yield revelations with regard to the nature of 'creativity' and form.
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Although the extent of these deceptions may never be fully understood, the revelations of his sketchy past make one wonder about the veracity of his statements about his collection.
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In 1956 theatre directors and publishers were counting on the emergence of manuscripts full of revelations - plays, novels, poems written during the preceding years 'for the bottom drawer'.
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The magazine followed the revelations with advice to its readers on how to limit disclosure of health information by their doctors' offices, insurance companies, and employers who self-insure (22,628).
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