sky
英 [ska?]
美[ska?]
- n. 天空；頂點
- vt. 把…投向空中；把…掛得過高
- vi. 踢或擊高空球；把槳葉翹得過高；飛漲
- n. (Sky)人名；(英)斯凱
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詞態(tài)變化
復(fù)數(shù):?skies;第三人稱單數(shù):?skies;過去式:?skied;過去分詞:?skied;現(xiàn)在分詞:?skying;
助記提示
1. 諧音“是蓋”。
2. sky 【世蓋 蓋住世界】n.天，天空
2. sky 【世蓋 蓋住世界】n.天，天空
中文詞源
sky 天，天空
來自古諾斯語 sky,云，云層，來自 Proto-Germanic*skeujam,云，云層，來自 PIE*skeu,遮蓋， 覆蓋，詞源同 hide,obscure.后詞義由云演變?yōu)樘炜?，?cloud 詞義由群山演變?yōu)樵啤?/p>
英文詞源
- sky
- sky: [13] Our Anglo-Saxon ancestors called the sky heofon ‘heaven’. Not until the early Middle English period did heaven begin to be pushed aside by sky, a borrowing from Old Norse sky ‘cloud’. This came ultimately from an Indo- European base meaning ‘cover’, which also produced Latin obscūrus, source of English obscure [14]. (For a while English continued to use sky for ‘cloud’ as well as for ‘sky’: the medieval Scots poet William Dunbar wrote, ‘When sable all the heaven arrays with misty vapours, clouds, and skies’.)
=> obscure - sky (n.)
- c. 1200, "a cloud," from Old Norse sky "cloud," from Proto-Germanic *skeujam "cloud, cloud cover" (cognates: Old English sceo, Old Saxon scio "cloud, region of the clouds, sky;" Old High German scuwo, Old English scua, Old Norse skuggi "shadow;" Gothic skuggwa "mirror"), from PIE root *(s)keu- "to cover, conceal" (see hide (n.1)).
Meaning "upper regions of the air" is attested from c. 1300; replaced native heofon in this sense (see heaven). In Middle English, the word can still mean both "cloud" and "heaven," as still in the skies, originally "the clouds." Sky-high is from 1812; phrase the sky's the limit is attested from 1908. Sky-dive first recorded 1965; sky-writing is from 1922. - sky (v.)
- "to raise or throw toward the skies," 1802, from sky (n.).
雙語例句
- 1. He sat mute, speechless with ecstasy, gazing into the sky.
- 他靜靜坐著，凝視天空，一言不發(fā)，心馳神往。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. He can't help thinking it's all just "pie in the sky" talk.
- 他禁不住想所有這些不過是“畫餅充饑”的空話而已。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. Her silk shirtdress was sky-blue, the colour of her eyes.
- 她一襲天藍(lán)色的真絲襯衫式連身裙，和她的雙眸顏色一樣。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. Suddenly a bolt of lightning crackled through the sky.
- 突然一道閃電劃破長空。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. There was a low humming sound in the sky.
- 空中傳來一陣低沉的嗡嗡聲。
來自柯林斯例句