把蓋住的東西露出來
兩個意思是同一個動作的兩種材料：一個掀開的是布，一個掀開的是訊息。判斷是哪一個，看它修飾的名詞。
adjective · B2
Used about clothes that let people see parts of the body which clothes usually cover.
（衣服）暴露的
核心畫面
One way to hold this word: a cover slides aside and something that was hidden is now in plain sight. The most physical version is cloth — a dress that shows a shoulder or a back. The word describes the thing doing the uncovering, not the thing uncovered, which is why it sits in front of dress, answer, study, interview alike. Whatever follows it, ask the same question: what was covered a moment ago, and can you see it now?
可以想成一塊蓋子被挪開，本來看不到的東西現在攤在眼前。最具體的版本是布：一件洋裝露出肩膀或背。要注意這個字形容的是「…更多收起
可以想成一塊蓋子被挪開，本來看不到的東西現在攤在眼前。最具體的版本是布：一件洋裝露出肩膀或背。要注意這個字形容的是「把東西掀開的那個東西」，不是被掀開的東西——所以它可以擺在 dress 前面，也可以擺在 answer、study、interview 前面。不管後面接什麼，問題都一樣：剛剛被蓋住的是什麼，現在看得到了嗎？From the word’s history
Revealing is reveal plus -ing, recorded from Middle English. Reveal itself is about drawing a cover back, which is exactly the picture both modern senses use.
revealing 就是 reveal 加上 -ing，中古英文時期就有紀錄。reveal 本身講的是把蓋著的東西掀開，而這正好是今天兩個意思共用的同一個畫面——一個掀開的是布，一個掀開的是真相。
Wiktionary entry for revealing, etymology_text supplied in the evidence packet (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1141398388)
One branch
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
revealingadj/ɹɪˈviːlɪŋ/
- 1
Informative; providing new information.
- a revealing analysis
- Lest anyone on the left think that Tucker [Carlson] and his friends are potential anti-capitalist allies, their specific objections to corporate capitalism are revealing. To them, the real issue is not labor exploitation, but rather the “corporate alliance with the progressive left.”
- 2
Allowing more of the body to be seen than is usual.
- Her shirt is rather revealing.
revealingnoun/ɹɪˈviːlɪŋ/
- 1
An act of revealing; the process of revealing; something revealed.
- It became clear that we were witnessing a great revealing of secrets.
- In these letters, and the remembered conversations, we have fuller revealings of the inner man, greater depth of discovery into that vast and labyrinthine mind[…]
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。