英语词汇“sky”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	sky
释义	sky I. \ˈskī\ noun (-es) Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English, cloud, sky, from Old Norse skȳ cloud; akin to Old English scēo cloud, scua shadow, Old High German scuwo, Old Norse skuggi shadow, Gothic skuggwa mirror, Sanskrit skunāti he covers — more at hide 1. a. : the expanse of space surrounding the earth : the upper atmosphere — usually used in plural < lifted his tiny hands to the skies — Sherwood Anderson > b. : the expanse appearing as a great vault or arch over the earth : firmament < the sky was a cold stone-grey — Pearl Buck > < the daughter of earth and water, and the nursling of the sky — P.B.Shelley > < behold a rainbow in the sky — William Wordsworth > < a blue sky of spring — William Allingham > < the infinitely perilous night sky — V.V.Nabokov > — often used in plural < promise in the skies neither of sun nor of snow — Jean Stafford > < the skies they were ashen and sober — E.A.Poe > 2. : heaven 2 < fate snatch'd her early to the pitying sky — Alexander Pope > — often used in plural < he rais'd a mortal to the skies — John Dryden > 3. a. : meteorological conditions as manifested in the upper atmospheric regions — usually used in plural < stormy skies > < the papers forecast clear skies tomorrow > b. : climate — usually used in plural < our temperate English skies — G.G.Coulton > < creatures from neighboring fields and skies — R.W.Murray > 4. : sky blue 5. : an unrestricted or indefinite amount or degree of something — used in the phrase the sky is the limit • - to the sky II. verb (skied or skyed ; skied or skyed ; skying ; skies) *transitive verb* 1. chiefly Britain : to toss up (a coin) : flip < skied a copper for heads or tails — S.H.Adams > 2. a. : to hang (as a painting) above the line of vision < have been skied or placed in obscure corners — Carnegie Magazine > b. : to place (as a person) in an inconveniently high place < the world's press, skied up in the gallery — Mollie Panter-Downes > 3. : to hit (a ball) high into the air < skied his simple pitch a full 40 yards short of the green — H.W.Wind > 4. : to pass (as cotton cloth) in dyeing through air on rollers (as for oxidizing the reduced form of a vat dye) *intransitive verb* 1. : to hit a ball high into the air < the batter skied to the center fielder > 2. : to rise precipitously < a way to keep insurance rates from skying — Wall Street Journal >
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