在這句話中，註意2個詞的意思，cover 和 field
cover
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VERB 遮蓋;掩蔽
If you cover something, you place something else over it in order to protect it, hide it, or close it.
Cover the casserole with a tight-fitting lid...
用大小合適的蓋子蓋住砂鍋。
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VERB 蓋在…上面;鋪在…上面
If one thing covers another, it has been placed over it in order to protect it, hide it, or close it.
His finger went up to touch the black patch which covered his left eye...
他伸手去觸摸遮住左眼的黑眼罩。
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VERB 蓋;覆蓋;遮住
If one thing covers another, it forms a layer over its surface.
The clouds had spread and nearly covered the entire sky...
雲彩擴散開來，幾乎遮住了整個天空。
-covered
...chocolate-covered biscuits.
有巧克力外層的餅幹
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VERB 用…遮蓋;把…鋪在…上
To cover something with or in something else means to put a layer of the second thing over its surface.
The trees in your garden may have covered the ground with apples, pears or plums...
妳花園裏的果樹也許已經落了壹地的蘋果、梨或李子。
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VERB 行走(壹段路程)
If you cover a particular distance, you travel that distance.
It would not be easy to cover ten miles on that amount of petrol...
就那麽點兒汽油很難開10英裏。
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VERB (用槍等)掩護
To cover someone or something means to protect them from attack, for example by pointing a gun in the direction of people who may attack them, ready to fire the gun if necessary.
You go first. I'll cover you.
妳先撤，我掩護妳。
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N-UNCOUNT (飛機等的)掩護，防護
Cover is protection from enemy attack that is provided for troops or ships carrying out a particular operation, for example by aircraft.
They said they could not provide adequate air cover for ground operations.
他們聲稱無法為地面軍事行動提供充分的空中掩護。
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N-UNCOUNT 躲避處;避難所;庇護所
Cover is trees, rocks, or other places where you shelter from the weather or from an attack, or hide from someone.
Charles lit the fuses and they ran for cover.
查爾斯點燃了導火索，他們便趕緊四處躲避。
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VERB 給…保險
An insurance policy that covers a person or thing guarantees that money will be paid by the insurance company in relation to that person or thing.
Their insurer paid the ?900 bill, even though the policy did not strictly cover it...
雖然嚴格來講保險單並不包含這壹項，他們的保險公司還是支付了那張900英鎊的賬單。
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N-UNCOUNT (保險公司的)保險
Insurance cover is a guarantee from an insurance company that money will be paid by them if it is needed.
Make sure that the firm's insurance cover is adequate.
確保該公司上了足夠的保險。
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VERB (法律)適用於，涉及
If a law covers a particular set of people, things, or situations, it applies to them.
The law covers four categories of experiments...
該法規適用於4類試驗。
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VERB (在演講、課程或書中)討論，涉及
If you cover a particular topic, you discuss it in a lecture, course, or book.
The Oxford Chemistry Primers aim to cover important topics in organic chemistry...
《牛津化學初級讀本》叢書旨在論述有機化學中的重要問題。
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VERB 報道
If journalists, newspapers, or television companies cover an event, they report on it.
Robinson was sent to Italy to cover the 1990 World Cup...
魯賓遜被派到意大利報道1990年的世界杯比賽。
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VERB (錢)足以支付，夠付
If a sum of money covers something, it is enough to pay for it.
Send it to the address given with ?1.50 to cover postage and administration...
將它寄到指定地址，並附上1.50英鎊以支付郵資和管理費。
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N-COUNT 覆蓋物;套子;罩子;蓋子
A cover is something which is put over an object, usually in order to protect it.
...a family room with washable covers on the furniture.
家具上套有可清洗外罩的家庭娛樂室
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N-PLURAL 被子;毯子;床單;床罩
The covers on your bed are the things such as sheets and blankets that you have on top of you.
She set her glass down and slid farther under the covers.
她放下杯子，鉆進被子裏。
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N-COUNT (書刊的)封面，封皮
The cover of a book or a magazine is the outside part of it.
A few years ago, David Byrne was on the cover of Time magazine.
幾年前，大衛·拜恩曾登上《時代》周刊的封面。
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N-COUNT (對秘密或違法之事的)掩蓋，掩飾
Something that is a cover for secret or illegal activities seems respectable or normal, and is intended to hide the activities.
They set up a spurious temple that was a cover for sexual debauchery...
他們建立起壹座為淫穢活動作掩護的假寺廟。
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VERB (通過提供假信息或不完全的信息來)遮掩，掩蓋，包庇
If you cover for someone who is doing something secret or illegal, you give false information or do not give all the information you have, in order to protect them.
Why would she cover for someone who was trying to kill her?
她為什麽要包庇想要殺她的人呢？
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VERB 代替，頂替(某人工作)
If you cover for someone who is ill or away, you do their work for them while they are not there.
She did not have enough nurses to cover for those who went ill or took holiday.
她沒有足夠的護士來頂替那些生病或休假的人工作。
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VERB 翻唱(歌曲)
To cover a song originally performed by someone else means to record a new version of it.
He must make a decent living from other artists covering his songs.
其他藝術家翻唱他的歌曲，壹定使他過上了收入頗為可觀的生活。
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N-COUNT 同 cover version
A cover is the same as a cover version .
The single is a cover of an old Rolling Stones song.
這支單曲是滾石樂隊的壹首老歌的翻唱。
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See also: covered; covering
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PHRASE 揭露，揭示(真實身份或工作的真實性質)
To blow someone's cover means to cause their true identity or the true nature of their work to be revealed.
Asking those kind of questions could blow my cover...
問那種問題會暴露我的身份。
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PHRASE (通常為到達另壹地點)離開隱蔽處，沖出躲藏處
If you break cover, you leave a place where you have been hiding or sheltering from attack, usually in order to run to another place.
They began running again, broke cover and dashed towards the road.
他們又開始跑，離開隱蔽處朝公路沖去。
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PHRASE 躲避(炮火、轟炸或壞天氣)
If you take cover, you shelter from gunfire, bombs, or the weather.
Shoppers took cover behind cars as police marksmen returned fire.
警方的射擊手開火回擊時，購物者們躲在汽車後面。
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PHRASE 在…的遮掩下(躲避炮火轟炸、壞天氣等)
If you are under cover, you are under something that protects you from gunfire, bombs, or the weather.
'Get under cover!' shouted Billy, and we darted once more for the tables.
“躲起來！”比利喊道，我們便又壹次沖向桌子。
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PREP-PHRASE 在…的掩護下
If you do something under cover of a particular situation, you are able to do it without being noticed because of that situation.
They move under cover of darkness.
他們在黑暗的掩護下行進。
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PHRASE 保護自己(免受批評、譴責等);辯解
If you cover your back or cover your rear, you do something in order to protect yourself, for example against criticism or against accusations of doing something wrong.
The canny Premier covered his back by pointing out that he was of Scottish stock.
精明狡猾的首相辯解說自己是蘇格蘭血統。
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PHRASE 同 cover your back
Cover your ass means the same as cover your back .
Just play it safe, cover your ass, keep your head down.
要謹慎行事，保護好自己並保持低調。
相關詞組: cover up
field
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N-COUNT 地;田;牧場
A field is an area of grass, for example in a park or on a farm. A field is also an area of land on which a crop is grown.
...a field of wheat...
麥田
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N-COUNT 運動場;球場
A sports field is an area of grass where sports are played.
...a football field...
足球場
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N-COUNT 礦產地;礦田
A field is an area of land or sea bed under which large amounts of a particular mineral have been found.
...an extensive natural gas field in Alaska.
阿拉斯加壹個巨大的天然氣田
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N-COUNT (磁、引力或電)場
A magnetic, gravitational, or electric field is the area in which that particular force is strong enough to have an effect.
Some people are worried that electromagnetic fields from electric power lines could increase the risk of cancer.
有些人擔心輸電線的電磁場可能增加致癌幾率。
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N-COUNT 專業;學科;領域
A particular field is a particular subject of study or type of activity.
Exciting artistic breakthroughs have recently occurred in the fields of painting, sculpture and architecture...
繪畫、雕塑和建築領域最近出現了激動人心的藝術突破。
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N-COUNT 字段;信息組;欄
A field is an area of a computer's memory or a program where data can be entered, edited, or stored.
Go to a site like Yahoo! Finance and enter 'AOL' in the Get Quotes field.
登錄諸如“雅虎財經”這樣的站點，在“股票行情”欄輸入“美國在線”。
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N-COUNT 戰場;戰地
You can refer to the area where fighting or other military action in a war takes place as the field or the field of battle .
We never defeated them on the field of battle.
我們從未在戰場上打敗過他們。
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N-COUNT 視野;視域
Your field of vision or your visual field is the area that you can see without turning your head.
Our field of vision is surprisingly wide.
我們的視野出人意料地開闊。
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N-COUNT-COLL (體育比賽的)所有參賽者，出場陣容
The field is a way of referring to all the competitors taking part in a particular race or sports contest.
Going into the fourth lap, the two most broadly experienced riders led the field...
進入第四圈時，兩名身經百戰的騎手開始領先。
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ADJ 實地;野外
You use field to describe work or study that is done in a real, natural environment rather than in a theoretical way or in controlled conditions.
I also conducted a field study among the boys about their attitude to relationships...
我還對男孩子們進行了壹項有關兩性關系態度的實地調查。
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VERB (在板球、棒球或圓場棒球中)防守，擔任守隊
In a game of cricket, baseball, or rounders, the team that is fielding is trying to catch the ball, while the other team is trying to hit it.
When we are fielding, the umpires keep looking at the ball.
我們防守的時候，裁判們壹直看著球。
fielding
At first base he led the league 21 times in fielding.
他在壹壘防守方面 21 次位居聯盟第壹。
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VERB (通常成功地)回答，處理(問題)
If you say that someone fields a question, you mean that they answer it or deal with it, usually successfully.
He was later shown on television, fielding questions.
他後來出現在電視上，答復問題。
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VERB 使…出場;讓…參加比賽
If a sports team fields a particular number or type of players, the players are chosen to play for the team on a particular occasion.
England intend fielding their strongest team in next month's World Youth Championship.
英格蘭意欲在下月的世界青年錦標賽中推出他們的最強陣容。
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VERB 讓…參加競選;讓…作競選候選人
If a candidate in an election is representing a political party, you can say that the party is fielding that candidate.
There are signs that the new party aims to field candidates in elections scheduled for February next year.
有跡象表明新黨意欲推舉候選人參加定於明年 2 月舉行的選舉。
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PHRASE 縱情享受;肆意地做;盡情地做
If someone is having a field day, they are very busy doing something that they enjoy, even though it may be hurtful for other people.
In our absence the office gossips are probably having a field day...
我們不在的時候，辦公室裏大概謠言四起了吧。
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PHRASE 在實地;在野外
Work or study that is done in the field is done in a real, natural environment rather than in a theoretical way or in controlled conditions.
The zoo is doing major conservation work, both in captivity and in the field.
無論在圈養場還是在野外，動物園在動物保護方面都承擔了主要的工作。
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PHRASE 領先;帶頭
If you say that someone leads the field in a particular activity, you mean that they are better, more active, or more successful than everyone else who is involved in it.
When it comes to picking up awards they lead the field by miles.
他們在拿獎方面遙遙領先。
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PHRASE 到處拈花惹草;濫交
If someone plays the field, they have a number of different romantic or sexual relationships.
He gave up playing the field and married a year ago.
他不再處處留情，壹年前結了婚。