shrouded
覆われた
解説 Definition
shrouded は shroud（覆う、包み隠す）の過去形・過去分詞です。物や場所が布、霧、暗さなどに覆われている状態を表し、やや文学的に使われることもあります。
The past tense and past participle of “shroud,” commonly used to describe a person, object, or place as completely covered, surrounded, or concealed by cloth, fog, darkness, or something similarly obscuring.
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原形 shroud「覆って隠す」に過去・過去分詞の -ed を付けた規則変化で、発音は語末が /ɪd/ となる。もとは死者を包む布を指す語なので、何かが視界から隠れる像を持つ。be shrouded in fog、darkness、a cloth の形で「霧・闇・布に覆われた」と覚える。
Shrouded is the regular past or past-participial form of shroud, made by adding -ed; because shroud ends in /d/, the ending is pronounced /ɪd/. A shroud was originally a cloth used to wrap a dead body, so the word carries a strong image of complete covering and concealment. Remember the frequent pattern be shrouded in: a mountain shrouded in fog, a village shrouded in darkness, or a statue shrouded in cloth. It sounds more literary and mysterious than simply covered.
例文
The mountain was shrouded in thick fog.
その山は濃い霧に覆われていました。
The statue stood shrouded in a white cloth.
その像は白い布に覆われて立っていました。
By evening, the village was shrouded in darkness.
夕方には、その村は暗闇に包まれていました。
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shrouded の語源・成り立ち Etymology
古英語「scryd（葬儀の掛布）」が語源です。名詞が動詞化し「布で包む→隠す」へ転じました。元々死者を覆う布を指したため、霧や闇に「覆われる」現代語義がすっきり繋がります。同族語に衣服切れ端由来の「shred」があります。
Shrouded is formed from shroud by adding the regular ending -ed. Shroud comes from an Old English word associated with clothing or a garment and later referred especially to cloth wrapped around a dead body. The noun subsequently became a verb meaning “cover or conceal as if with a cloth.” This physical image was extended figuratively to fog, darkness, secrecy, and other things that hide something from view.
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