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You can picture a white or grey mass floating in the sky — soft-edged, made of countless tiny drops, drifting along and able to slide in front of the sun and dim the light. Hold two features of it: it's a loose floating cluster of tiny things, and it can cast a shadow over what's below. Most other meanings pull on one of those two features.

可以想成：天上一團白白灰灰、邊緣鬆軟的東西，由無數小水滴組成，飄著走，還會擋在太陽前面把光遮暗。記住它的兩個特點：一…更多收起可以想成：天上一團白白灰灰、邊緣鬆軟的東西，由無數小水滴組成，飄著走，還會擋在太陽前面把光遮暗。記住它的兩個特點：一是「許多小東西鬆鬆地飄成一團」，二是「會在下方投下一片陰影」。其他意思多半各拉住其中一個特點延伸出去。

原始詞典資料25 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Cloudname

  • 1

    A surname.

cloudnoun/ˈklaʊ̯d/

  • 1

    A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air.

    • While he thus ſpake, there came a cloud, and ouerſhadowed them, ⁊ they feared, as they entred into the cloude.
    • So this was my future home, I thought![…]Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
  • 2

    Any mass of dust, steam or smoke resembling such a mass.

    • Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.
  • 3

    Anything reminiscent of a cloud.

    • The ship moved forward under a cloud of sail.
  • 4

    Anything which makes things foggy, unclear or gloomy.

    • But in one part of the horizon a cloud lay, and the rulers of India were oppressed with a sense of coming disaster. This cloud had begun to form in 1873, and had been continually growing larger; it threw a shadow over gold-debtor nations, and shed a depressing influence over gold-using countries.
  • 5

    Anything unsubstantial.

  • 6

    A dark spot on a lighter material or background.

  • 7

    A group or swarm of insects, various animals or people, especially when flying.

    • He opened the door and was greeted by a cloud of bats.
    • so great a cloud of witnesses
  • 8

    An elliptical shape or symbol whose outline is a series of semicircles, supposed to resemble a cloud.

    • The comic-book character's thoughts appeared in a cloud above his head.
另外 7 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    communicationselectrical-engineeringengineeringA telecom network (from their representation in engineering drawings).

  • 10

    The Internet, regarded as an abstract amorphous omnipresent space for processing and storage, the focus of cloud computing.

    • Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.
    • […]the cloud could do this, it could do that. The cloud could be powerful and intelligent. It became a business buzzword and a selling point.
  • 11

    A negative or foreboding aspect of something positive: see every cloud has a silver lining or every silver lining has a cloud.

    • But when he found that some of his interrogatories were evaded, and others answered undecisively, the look of gentleness which he had assumed, vanished, and his brow wore the cloud of disappointment and of anger.
    • The only cloud on their night was that injury to Rafael, who was followed off the pitch by his anxious brother Fabio as he was stretchered away down the tunnel.
  • 12

    slangCrystal methamphetamine.

  • 13

    A large, loosely-knitted headscarf worn by women.

  • 14

    A white cat.

  • 15

    obsoleteA rock; boulder; a hill.

cloudverb/ˈklaʊ̯d/

  • 1

    To become foggy or gloomy, or obscured from sight.

    • The glass clouds when you breathe on it.
  • 2

    To overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds.

    • The sky is clouded.
  • 3

    Of the breath, to become cloud; to turn into mist.

    • The horses stamping Their warm breath clouding In the sharp and frosty morning Of the day.
  • 4

    To make obscure.

    • All this talk about human rights is clouding the real issue.
  • 5

    To make less acute or perceptive.

    • Your emotions are clouding your judgement.
    • The tears began to well up and cloud my vision.
  • 6

    To make gloomy or sullen.

    • One day too late, I fear me, noble lord, Hath clouded all thy happy days on earth.
    • Be not disheartened, then, nor cloud those looks.
  • 7

    To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish (reputation or character).

    • I would not be a stander-by to hear My sovereign mistress clouded so, without My present vengeance taken.
  • 8

    To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colors.

    • to cloud yarn
    • The nice conduct of a clouded cane
另外 1 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    To become marked, darkened or variegated in this way.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。