late 14c., "cloudy, misty," from Latin nebulosus "cloudy, misty, foggy, full of vapor," from nebula (see nebula). The figurative sense of "hazy, vague, formless" is first attested 1831. Astronomical sense is from 1670s. Related: Nebulously; nebulousness.
雙語例句
1. Music is such a nebulous thing.
音樂是如此蒙之物。
來自柯林斯例句
2. The notions we children were able to form of the great world beyond were exceedingly nebulous.
我們這些孩子所能形成的對外部世界的認(rèn)識是非常模糊的。
來自辭典例句
3. The evening films began to make nebulous pictures of the valleys.