the act of preventing something from being seen or heard, or something that prevents something else from being seen or heard

Obscuration can be obtained by the use of blackout curtains. 使用遮光窗帘可以达到遮光效果。

They observed the courses of the stars, and their obscurations. 他们观察天体的运行轨迹和星蚀的情况。

the act of making something difficult to discover and understand, or something that makes something else difficult to discover and understand

an obscuration of the truth 掩盖真相

The word “obscuration” occurs frequently in Buddhist texts to mean whatever distorts, blocks, or biases our perception. “业障”这个词在佛教典籍中经常出现，意指任何扭曲、阻碍或让认知出现偏差的东西。