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单词 canopy
释义
canopy
(kænəpi )
Word forms: canopies
1. countable noun
A canopy is a decorated cover, often made of cloth, which is placed above something such as a bed or a seat.
2. countable noun [usually singular]
A canopy is a layer of something that spreads out and covers an area, for example the branches and leaves that spread out at the top of trees in a forest.
The trees formed such a dense canopy that all beneath was a deep carpet of pine-needles.
Synonyms: covering, layer, blanket, mantle  
Collocations:
canopy of stars
Touch a button from your fourposter bed and the ceiling slides open to reveal a canopy of stars.
Times,Sunday Times
Fruit bats flapping behind the screen, lions a short roar away, a picnic under a canopy of stars — it's goodbye multiplex, hello moonlit magic.
Times, Sunday Times
Evenings now reveal a rarely seen canopy of stars.
Times,Sunday Times
Of course, there's an abundance of entertainment too, with live music and beach parties all taking place under a bright moon and canopy of stars.
Times, Sunday Times
All four characters are seated on a fallen, hollow, metal column and are surrounded by a canopy of stars.
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cockpit canopy
Having slid back his cockpit canopy, and slipped his safety harness, he forgot to disconnect his radio and oxygen lines.
Times, Sunday Times
A second prototype was fitted with a sliding cockpit canopy.
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Pilot comfort was improved by slightly reclining the seat back and increasing legroom, and visibility was increased through a larger one-piece cockpit canopy.
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At some point it was fitted with a multi-transparency cockpit canopy.
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The aircraft was optionally piloted; a single-seat cockpit was installed for ferry and training flights; a fairing would replace the cockpit canopy on operational missions.
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dense canopy
It has a dense canopy, in which the leaves are turning yellow and there are many bunches of red berries.
Times, Sunday Times
As we enter the park, the dense canopy casts the jungle into verdant gloom.
Smithsonian
In the past the hornbeam would have been coppiced for timber, but in my wood it has grown up to form a dense canopy.
Times, Sunday Times
More than 6,000 plant species have been found in just one square kilometre and more than 1,000 species of birds make the dense canopy their home.
The Sun
It's tucked away down a tiny lane, over which trees form a dense canopy, so that you would never come across it by chance.
Times, Sunday Times
forest canopy
The water is cool, refreshing and safe, overlooking a forest canopy where sulphur-crested cockatoos and rainbow lorikeets hold screeching matches.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Walk instead with me beneath a forest canopy in the English spring.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
For me it wasn't the green forest canopy beneath my feet or the rush of the wind.
Times, Sunday Times (2017)
Additionally, it enables the estimation of forest canopy transmissivity without ancillary data.
Aaron Thompson, Richard Kelly 2018, 'Observations of a Coniferous Forest at 9.6 and 17.2 GHz: Implications for SWE Retrievals', Remote Sensing
glass canopy
The car glides along on compressed air while solar power from the glass canopy recharges the batteries and runs the air filters.
Times, Sunday Times
Cover it with a glass canopy that can be opened in good weather.
Times, Sunday Times
That's because information and films can be projected on to the glass canopy.
The Sun
He decided he wanted a huge glass door that swung upwards to form a glass canopy over the outdoor seating area.
Times, Sunday Times
The five-point harness stops my helmet slamming against the glass canopy before we're catapulted earthbound at a rate of 260mph.
Times, Sunday Times
leaf canopy
Above, a sprinkling of rain has begun, but nothing penetrates the leaf canopy.
Times, Sunday Times
By then the leaf canopy will have closed and the place will have its own sounds and silences.
Times, Sunday Times
Maximum potato yield loss appears to be related to infestations occurring early in the growing season, or on crops with a significant leaf canopy by summer.
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Research over the past ten years has shown that large street trees with extensive leaf canopies have a remarkable ability to filter out particulates and purify the air.
Times, Sunday Times
They roost in leaf canopies, mostly preferring the convenient shelter of young waterside mangrove trees.
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leafy canopy
Ingenious eruptions produce from nowhere a huge solid tree and vines dangling in a leafy canopy.
Times, Sunday Times
It grows strongly to 30ft or more, with the light leafy canopy turning gold in autumn, and can be underplanted with winter bulbs.
Times, Sunday Times
Still, now you can shape the remaining leafy canopy, snipping away to the top and sides, but never cutting into that older wood.
Times, Sunday Times
As a result they 'float' amid the leafy canopy, as unobtrusive as the most highly trained butler.
Times, Sunday Times
Pausing, he stared up into the leafy canopy, but he couldn't see anything.
Times, Sunday Times
rainforest canopy
A little further on, a movement high in the rainforest canopy, and a wild orang-utan stretches out for another leaf.
Times, Sunday Times
What better paparazzi screen than the rainforest canopy?
Times, Sunday Times
There are also whale and dolphinspotting tours and zip-wiring through the rainforest canopy.
The Sun
Up, up we go on a 25-minute tramway above the rainforest canopy, where tapirs rustle below.
Times, Sunday Times
After a long walk beneath the rainforest canopy in the afternoon heat, we emerge at a small clearing.
The Sun
thick canopy
Beneath the thick canopy, the challenges faced by the collectors are obvious.
Times, Sunday Times
Nothing thrives beneath its thick canopy and carcinogenic spores.
Times, Sunday Times
Vines skulk over bricks and the sun casts shadows through a thick canopy of branches.
Times, Sunday Times
They avoided areas with short grass and woodland where trees formed a thick canopy or thickets.
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The deep plunge pool at the foot of the waterfall was hidden under the thick canopy of the tropical rainforest before deforestation.
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tree canopy
Follow a trail from the forest floor to the heights of the tree canopy.
Times, Sunday Times
Planting at ground level rushes to bloom earlier in the year, before the tree canopy fills in and shades out the light.
Times, Sunday Times
Perched 59ft above the ground and 656ft long, it allows visitors to enter the tree canopy amid sweet chestnuts and deciduous oaks.
Times, Sunday Times
The accommodation, 5m up in the tree canopy, isn't primitive.
Times, Sunday Times
Nearby attractions include dune-buggy offroading, dolphin encounters, catamaran sailing and tours of the tree canopy.
The Sun
Translations:
Chinese: 华盖
Japanese: 天蓋
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