| 单词 | sky |
| 释义 | sky (skaɪ ) Word forms: skies 1. variable noun A2 The sky is the space around the Earth which you can see when you stand outside and look upwards. The sun is already high in the sky. ...warm sunshine and clear blue skies. The night sky was lit up by flashes of light. Synonyms: heavens, firmament, upper atmosphere, azure [poetic] 2. pie in the sky phrase If you describe an idea, plan, or promise of something good as pie in the sky, you mean that you think that it is very unlikely to happen. The true regeneration of devastated Docklands seemed like pie in the sky. He can't help thinking it's all just 'pie in the sky' talk. Synonyms: a false hope, a fantasy, an illusion, a mirage Idioms: pie in the sky very unlikely to happen Ideally what I would like to see would be free childcare, but I think that's a bit pie in the sky at the moment. Changes are a real possibility. This is not pie-in-the-sky stuff. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers out of a clear blue sky completely unexpectedly Out of a clear blue sky and after 34 months of successive increases, unemployment has dropped by 22,000. Easy Learning Idioms Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers Collocations: cloudless sky August, for many, conjures up memories of endless days filled with sunshine, cloudless skies, and little rain. Times, Sunday Times (2010) Stepping out into the cool night, he looked up into the clear, cloudless sky. Man of Honour (2007) The following day he woke to a cloudless sky and temperatures in the mid-20s. Times, Sunday Times (2010) The wind is blowing, with leaden skies and lashing rain, but this winter has been mild. Times, Sunday Times (2011) Under leaden skies that did not clear for a second successive day, batsmen had to contend with movement off the seam throughout. Times, Sunday Times (2013) By day, there were leaden skies and it was almost cool. THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Memoir of Love and War (2003) We wanted to make the most of the balmy night, starry sky and beaming moon. The Sun (2011) Over the fences I could see the cruel outlines of mountain ridges etched against a starry sky. Times, Sunday Times (2009) A wood burner blazes by the bed and, through a huge window, a snowy piste stretches out under a starry sky. Times, Sunday Times (2015) There is also an overnight pack camp, where riders enjoy dinner from the open fire and a night under the beautiful starry sky. The Sun (2015) The starry sky is already beautiful. Times, Sunday Times (2012) An army truck stood against the stormy sky, by the shack. Smithsonian Every now and then in his paintings we can distinguish a clear representation of something: a moon, a stormy sky, a crucifix, a bracken frond, the sea. Times, Sunday Times All of this takes place in a landscape characterized by a dark, stormy sky on the left, complete with a bolt of lightning. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This shows a traveller on horseback among mountains under a stormy sky. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 She uses a blend of terracotta and stoneware clay, then finishes the plates in colour glazes inspired by the capital's stormy skies, adding hand-painted details. Times, Sunday Times A raucous crowd, a sunny sky and an upset on the cards. Times, Sunday Times It certainly was a lovely, sunny sky after the previous day's perpetual pouring of the rain, the biblical flooding of the world. Times, Sunday Times There was plenty of dry weather at the start, with early frosts giving way to sunny skies, especially in the east. Times, Sunday Times Today, the high will be about 100 degrees under sunny skies. Houston Chronicle The high will be about 85 degrees under sunny skies. Houston Chronicle An unearthly purple colour has glowed in the twilight sky just after sunset, and this has been seen in many other places in the northern hemisphere. Times, Sunday Times We saw this in the past two winters when the stratosphere turned so cold that it created fabulous tangerine, pink and yellow afterglows in the twilight sky. Times, Sunday Times It should be an easy object in the southeast twilight sky from mid-month. Times, Sunday Times There have also been intense purple bands of colour lasting for a short while in the twilight skies. Times,Sunday Times The comet has appeared at the same time as ripples of electric blue-silver clouds in twilight skies. Times,Sunday Times Vast sky: the stately passage of fabulous birds. Times, Sunday Times Heat and light now poured out of a vast sky of unqualified blue. Times,Sunday Times The medieval abbey rises from soft greenery beneath a vast sky. Times, Sunday Times For 10 hours (depending on stops) you are on your bike under a vast sky, with little or no traffic on the roads. Times, Sunday Times We'd stay behind, with our tent, marvelling at the vast sky above the veldt and shivering at the distant sound of lions. Times, Sunday Times Both will be visible after sunset, low in the western sky. Times, Sunday Times One evening, we enjoy sundowners on a pontoon moored in the middle of the river, hippos surfacing all around us with huge watery sighs and the western sky on fire. Times, Sunday Times Tonight riding in the western sky will be what stargazers call a conjunction. The Star (South Africa) Rodeos no longer lasted all day as they did under the western sky. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It was observed in the western sky at sunset globally. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Bare tree limbs and branches are drawn against the winter sky, as whimsical as pencil sketches. Christianity Today (2000) They look splendid against a blue winter sky. Times, Sunday Times (2014) Stand out against the grey winter sky with bright block colours and stripes. Times, Sunday Times (2011) Translations: Chinese: 天空 Japanese: 空 天 |
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