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

• The suits alleged that JPMorgan and others underwrote mortgage bonds that contained loans that were riskier than the banks let on.
  监管机构在这起案件中指控，摩根大通和其他银行承销的按揭债券中包含的一些贷款实际风险超出了这些银行披露的水平。
• 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。
• Well, let's press on.
  好了，让我们继续努力。
• 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。
• He has not yet been let in on the bad news.
  他还不知道这个不幸的消息。
• 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。
• There were some moves to let up on this curfew a little bit.
  采取了一些措施以缓和宵禁的紧张气氛。
• The Configuring Geronimo's EJB port section later in this article provides details on how to let clients on other machines access the server.
  本文稍后的配置Geronimo的EJB端口一节提供了有关如何让其他机器上的客户端访问服务器的详细信息。
• He blew his top after airport officials refused to let him on a plane.
  机场工作人员拒绝让他登机之后，他勃然大怒。
• He knows the culprit but is not letting on.
  他知道罪犯是谁，但却闭口不说。