divulge

表示把原本不公开的秘密或信息透露出去，使更多人知道；也有较少见的“公开宣示、昭示”义。

💡 记忆钩子

想象一扇关着秘密的门被打开：把门后的信息告诉别人，就是“披露、泄露”；如果把它扩大到众人面前公开展示或宣布，就发展出较旧的“昭示、宣告”义。

📝 学习建议

先把它记成“把藏着的信息掀开给别人看”，再扩展到公开宣示的旧义。不要把它只理解成普通的“说出来”，重点是原本不公开的信息被披露。

📖 中文释义

verb

core 披露；泄露

📖 把秘密、机密或其他原本不公开的信息透露出去，使别人或公众知道。核心不是单纯开口说话，而是把藏着的信息掀开。

💡 常用结构是 divulge + 秘密或信息，或 divulge + 信息 + to + 人。它多用于正式语境，常和秘密、细节、身份、来源等不公开内容搭配。不要把它当作普通的“告诉”来使用；如果内容本来就是公开的，通常不必用这个词。

transitive

The witness refused to divulge the source of the information.

证人拒绝透露这条信息的来源。

Please do not divulge our plans to anyone outside the team.

请不要把我们的计划透露给团队以外的人。
rare 公开宣示；昭示

📖 指在公众面前表明或宣告某事，像把某个标志高高举出来让众人看见；这是较旧、较少见的用法。

💡 常见结构是 divulge + 某项事实、身份或象征意义。这个义项多见于古旧、文学或历史语境，现代日常表达通常会改用表示“宣布”或“揭示”的更常见词。学习时不要把它误当成现代英语中最主要的“泄露秘密”义。

transitive

divulges present,singular,third-person divulging participle,present divulged participle,past divulged past

📘 英文释义 (WordNet) 共 1 组

make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret; ; ; ; ;

同义词集: unwrap disclose let on bring out reveal discover expose divulge break give away let out uncover

The auction house would not disclose the price at which the van Gogh had sold

The actress won't reveal how old she is

bring out the truth

he broke the news to her

unwrap the evidence in the murder case

The newspaper uncovered the President's illegal dealings

上位: tell 下位: babble, babble out, betray, bewray, blab, blab out, blow, come out, come out of the closet, confide, leak, let the cat out of the bag, out, peach, reveal, sing, spill the beans, spring, talk, tattle

🌳 词源

源自拉丁语，含有“广泛地使人知道、公开宣布”的意思。

Inherited from Middle English divulgen, from Latin dīvulgō + -en (verb-forming suffix), from dī- (“widely”) + vulgō (“to make known, announce; to publish”).

🔄 变式

divulged past divulges present divulging present

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