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单词 revelatory
释义
revelatory
adjective
formal
uk
/ˌrev.əˈleɪ.tər.i/us
/ˈrev.ə.lə.tɔːr.i/
making somethingknownorshowingsomething that waspreviouslysecret:
揭示性的，揭露性的；透露内情的
It was a revelatorymomentwhen Irealizedthat there were otherpeoplewhowatchedthe show.当我意识到还有其他人观看这个节目时，顿时眼前一亮。
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
  • leakage
  • Queen's evidence
  • rat
  • rat onsomeone/something
  • reintroduce
  • revealingly
  • shed
  • state's evidence
  • tip
  • transpire
  • unload
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(Definition ofrevelatoryfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofrevelatory

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If it is true that perception is never a theoryindependent business, then the perception of arevelatoryevent cannot fail to be theory-infected as well.
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Today, many architects remain fascinated by therevelatorypower of cutting, but it is clear that in science this operation has reached its limits.
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A stance in favor of epistemic relativism is hardlyrevelatory, as anyone familiar with issues in the sociology of knowledge knows.
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Publication, indeed, often proved the shibbolethrevelatoryof the attitude toward both secular studies and fame.
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The spatial architecture of knowledge might berevelatoryor limiting through juxtapositions and correlations.
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This is for the religious understood asrevelatoryof something deep in the universe, a realm of supreme value and truth.
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In this way, experience-knowledge becomes the raison d'etre of the arts and concerns knowledge that stresses the tacit, personal,revelatoryand insightful.
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First, the context plays a role in selecting those features of therevelatoryevent that are relevant in this specific case.
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Essentially by linking appropriation to therevelatorypower of the text which we have described as its referential dimensions.
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The move backstage gives the investigator the added charisma of achieved proximity to a world of celebrity, caught in arevelatorymoment.
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The first three chapters, on family relationships, are interesting though notrevelatory.
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Such a piece normally involves a climactic,revelatoryutterance, not infrequently delivered in extremis.
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If, for example, the circularity that consists in the fact that a theory (of revelation) is generated by arevelatory#!
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But if acknowledged to be theory-infected, therevelatoryevent cannot function as a neutral ground for legitimating a particular theory or concept of revelation.
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The purely orchestral works are in some ways morerevelatory.
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