You're being cryptic now, father. Why don't you just say the word?

你别说的这么隐晦啊，父亲。为何不说出来那个字呢？

In my mind, those were veiled threats.

我认为这些是隐晦的威胁。

Because of all the not so subtle clues you've been giving.

因为你一直在给出的不那么隐晦的提示。

This is a more subtle way of winning an argument.

这是一种赢得辩论的更加隐晦的方式。

After issuing other such veiled threats, Trump concluded this way.

在发表了其他隐晦的威胁之后，特这种方式进行了总结。

Yeah. Good for you! - Lots of cryptic words does it help?

是的。答得真好！- 很多隐晦的词语，有帮助吗？

What Sheridan is up to is slyer, or maybe just more muddled.

谢里丹想要传达的更隐晦，或者可能只是更混乱。

Even so, the ultimate elusiveness of language can cause machine-translation specialists to feel a touch of Weltschmerz.

但即使如此，语言中最终极的隐晦含义也会让机器翻译工程师们感到一丝悲观厌世。

On Father's Day, the First Lady released an unprecedented statement not so subtly taking issue with the policy.

这位第一夫人先是在父亲节当天发表了一份前所未见的声明，不那么隐晦地对特的策提出了异议。

Nixon largely kept his bigotry private, coded in the language of the Silent Majority; Trump made his a slogan.

尼克松在“沉默的大多数”的演讲中很大程度上把自己的偏执隐晦地表达出来；特对自己的偏执直言不讳。

And the forces it unleashed a meditation on the advances of the industrial age, even a veiled commentary on slavery.

及它所释放的力量对工业时代进步的思考，甚至是对奴隶制的隐晦评论。

But cloaked expression is better than no expression.

但隐晦的表达总比没有表达要好。

And partly for some more obscure reason.

部分原因是一些更隐晦的原因。

'That is dim sarcasm—I know it is'.

“那是隐晦的讽刺——我知道是”。

The story's headline and opening paragraph read like some oblique zen haiku; MYSTERY GIRL FOUND.

这个故事的标题和开头段落读起来就像一些隐晦的禅宗俳句；神秘女孩被发现。

OK, let's hear from the punctuation expert, Keith Houston, who is author of Shady Characters: Ampersands, Interrobangs and Other Typographical Curiosities.

让我们来听听标点符号专家基思·休斯顿的观点，他是《隐晦的符号：连字符，疑问感叹号及其他印刷新奇符号》一书的作者。

A group like yours must have relied on subtlety and misdirection.

你们这样的团体肯定依赖的是隐晦和误导。

Often, travel writers' glowing descriptions of other places serve as veiled criticisms of one's home.

通常，旅行作家对其他地方的热情描述是对一个人家的隐晦批评。

Men get mugged; a woman who gets mugged is a shapely stewardess or a pert brunette.

男性被抢劫时， 我们只说“被抢劫” ；而女性被抢劫时， 描述却变成了“身材曼妙的女乘务员” 或“俏丽的黑发女郎” 。 更具有破坏性且更为隐晦的是那些将女性视为家庭男性成员附属品的用法， 而不是将她们视为具有独立身份、在家庭传奇中扮演平等角色的人：“早期定居者携妻带子向西推进。 ” 我们可改为“开拓者家庭” ，或者“带着儿女西行的开拓者夫妇” ，再或者“定居西部的男女” 。 如今，几乎所有角色都对两性开放。 不要使用那些暗示只有男性才能成为定居者、农、警察或消防员的表达方式。

It still did not seem right taking advice about his wife from another man, even circumspectly, obliquely.

从另一个男人那里听取关于他妻子的建议似乎仍然不对，即使是谨慎的、隐晦的。