[mass noun]the state of being unknown, inconspicuous, or unimportant 无名,默默无闻 he is too good a player to slide into obscurity. 像他这样优秀的运动员是不会变得默默无闻的。 ■the quality of being difficult to understand 晦涩,费解 poems of impenetrable obscurity. 极其费解的诗。 ■[count noun]a thing that is unclear or difficult to understand 模糊的东西,晦涩的东西 the obscurities in his poems and plays. 他的诗和戏剧中晦涩的词句。
语源
late Middle English: from Old French obscurite, from Latin obscuritas, from obscurus 'dark'