sky
英 [skaɪ]美[skaɪ]
- n. 天空;顶点
- vt. 把…投向空中;把…挂得过高
- vi. 踢或击高空球;把桨叶翘得过高;飞涨
- n. (Sky)人名;(英)斯凯
词态变化
复数: skies;第三人称单数: skies;过去式: skied;过去分词: skied;现在分词: skying;
助记提示
1. 谐音“是盖”。
2. sky 【世盖 盖住世界】n.天,天空
2. sky 【世盖 盖住世界】n.天,天空
中文词源
sky 天,天空
来自古诺斯语 sky,云,云层,来自 Proto-Germanic*skeujam,云,云层,来自 PIE*skeu,遮盖, 覆盖,词源同 hide,obscure.后词义由云演变为天空,而 cloud 词义由群山演变为云。
英文词源
- 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 ský ‘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.).
双语例句
- 1. He sat mute, speechless with ecstasy, gazing into the sky.
- 他静静坐着,凝视天空,一言不发,心驰神往。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. He can't help thinking it's all just "pie in the sky" talk.
- 他禁不住想所有这些不过是“画饼充饥”的空话而已。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. Her silk shirtdress was sky-blue, the colour of her eyes.
- 她一袭天蓝色的真丝衬衫式连身裙,和她的双眸颜色一样。
来自柯林斯例句
- 4. Suddenly a bolt of lightning crackled through the sky.
- 突然一道闪电划破长空。
来自柯林斯例句
- 5. There was a low humming sound in the sky.
- 空中传来一阵低沉的嗡嗡声。
来自柯林斯例句