divulge: [15] Etymologically, to divulge something is to make it known to the vulgar masses. The word comes from Latin dīvulgāre, a compound verb formed from the prefix dis- ‘widely’ and vulgāre ‘make common, publish’. This in turn was derived from vulgus ‘common people’, source of English vulgar. At first in English it was semantically neutral, meaning ‘make widely known’ (‘fame of his ouvrages [works, achievements] hath been divulged’, William Caxton, Book of Eneydos 1490), but by the 17th century the word’s modern connotations of ‘disclosing what should be secret’ had developed. => vulgar
divulge (v.)
mid-15c., from Latin divulgare "publish, make common," from dis- "apart" (see dis-) + vulgare "make common property," from vulgus "common people" (see vulgar). Related: Divulged; divulging.
双语例句
1. I do not want to divulge where the village is.
我不想透露那个村庄在哪儿。
来自柯林斯例句
2. Officials refuse to divulge details of the negotiations.
官员们拒绝透露谈判的细节。
来自柯林斯例句
3. Police refused to divulge the identity of the suspect.
警方拒绝透露嫌疑犯的身份。
来自《权威词典》
4. They refused to divulge where they had hidden the money.
