let on

英 [let ɒn]

美 [let ɑːn]

透露; 泄露

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 透露；泄露
  If you do notlet onthat something is true, you do not tell anyone that it is true, and you keep it a secret.
  1. She never let on that anything was wrong...
     她从来没有透露过有什么不妥。
  2. I didn't let on to the staff what my conversation was...
     我没有将谈话内容向员工们透露。
  3. He knows the culprit but is not letting on.
     他知道罪犯是谁，但却闭口不说。

英英释义

verb

• make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret
  1. The auction house would not disclose the price at which the van Gogh had sold
  2. The actress won't reveal how old she is
  3. bring out the truth
  4. he broke the news to her
  5. unwrap the evidence in the murder case
  Synonym:unwrapdisclosebring outrevealdiscoverexposedivulgebreakgive awaylet out

双语例句

• I can't tell my parents that I come here tonight, so if you see them, please don't let on that!
  我不能告诉我父母今晚我在这里，所以如果你看到他们，千万不要告诉他们我在这！
• Never let on to anybody.
  千万不要向任何人讲。
• If someone you know has cancer, don't let worry on this score stop you from visiting them.
  如果你认识的人得了癌症，不要因为这方面的担忧就不去探望他们。
• I doubt if any of my team-mates liked me any more for my copycat drinking and if my boss was impressed he never let on.
  我怀疑，由于我盲目模仿喝酒，我的同事是否还会有人喜欢我，我的老板是否对他所不允许的行为印象深刻。
• Trainees go through a four-hour lesson before they are let loose on the controls.
  受训人员须上4小时的课才能自由进行操作。
• Perhaps let God on your side, to him, let you to be more dangerous.
  也许那能让上帝站在你这边，对他来说，那让你更加危险。
• I praised the Lord, the God of my master Abraham, who had let me on the right road to get the granddaughter of my master's brother for his son.
  因为他引导我走合式的道路，使我得着我主人兄弟的孙女，给我主人的儿子为妻。
• I will reveal your secret in no case. Don't let on about the meeting.
  我决不会泄漏你的秘密。别泄露会议的秘密。
• Your heart drops into your stomach and you immediately let up on the gas while turning your steering wheel as fast as you can.
  您的心提到了嗓子眼里并且立即松开油门，同时尽可能快地转方向盘。您成功了！
• But thoughts about when the day might come occupied her mind 'more than I would ever let on,' she says.
  但她说，她总在想这天什么时候会来，这种想法总是挥之不去。