| 单词 | cloud |
| 释义 | cloud n. & v. --n 1. a visible mass of condensed watery vapour floating in the atmosphere high above the general level of the ground. 2. a mass of smoke or dust. 3. (foll. by of) a great number of insects, birds, etc., moving together. 4. a a state of gloom, trouble, or suspicion. b a frowning or depressed look (a cloud on his brow). 5. a local dimness or a vague patch of colour in or on a liquid or a transparent body. 6. an unsubstantial or fleeting thing. 7. obscurity. --v 1. tr. cover or darken with clouds or gloom or trouble. 2. intr. (often foll. by over, up) become overcast or gloomy. 3. tr. make unclear. 4. tr. variegate with vague patches of colour. Phrases and idioms cloud-castle a daydream. cloud chamber a device containing vapour for tracking the paths of charged particles, X-rays, and gamma rays. clouded leopard a mottled arboreal S. Asian feline, Neofelis nebulosa. cloud-hopping movement of an aircraft from cloud to cloud esp. for concealment. cloud-land a utopia or fairyland. in the clouds 1. unreal, imaginary, mystical. 2. (of a person) abstracted, inattentive. on cloud nine (or seven) colloq. extremely happy. under a cloud out of favour, discredited, under suspicion. with one's head in the clouds day-dreaming, unrealistic. Derivatives cloudless adj. cloudlessly adv. cloudlet n. Etymology: OE clud mass of rock or earth, prob. rel. to CLOD |
| 随便看 |
英语词典包含43808条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。