One way to picture it: you put a cover over something on purpose, so that another person's eyes slide past it and never land on it. The thing is still there — it is just kept out of sight.
From the word’s history
From Latin concelare 'to hide carefully' (con-, an intensifier, + celare 'to hide'), via Old French conceler. The root celare also lies behind cell and ceiling — things that shut a space away.
來自拉丁文 concelare（仔細地藏起來）：con- 是加強語氣，celare 是「藏」，中間經過古法文 conceler。celare 這個根也留在 cell（密閉的小室）、ceiling（天花板）這些「把空間遮起來」的字裡。所以 conceal 從一開始帶的就不只是「藏」，而是「小心地、確實地遮住」——那個 con- 就是它比 hide 更用力、更正式的原因。
Wiktionary entry for conceal (Old French conceler < Latin concelare, con- + celare)
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原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
concealverb/kənˈsiːl/
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To hide something from view or from public knowledge, to try to keep something secret.
- He tried to conceal the truth about his health.
- Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。