cloud

英[kla?d] 美[kla?d]

反義詞clear

復數:?clouds;第三人稱單數:?clouds;過去式:?clouded;過去分詞:?clouded;現在分詞:?clouding;

cloud 云

來自PIE*glei,黏，粘，詞源同clay,clump,clod.詞義由粘連到聚集成塊。原義為土塊，石塊，后代替sky 指云，sky 詞義由云過渡為天空。

cloud: cloud: [OE] In Old English the word for ‘cloud’ was weolcen (whence modern English welkin, a poetical term for ‘sky’), which is related to German wolke ‘cloud’. At that time Old English clūd, the ancestor of cloud, meant ‘mass of rock, hill’ (it is probably related to clod). As applied to ‘clouds’, presumably from a supposed resemblance between cumulus clouds and lumps of earth or rock, it dates from the 13th century.
=> clod
cloud (n.): Old English clud "mass of rock, hill," related to clod. Metaphoric extension to "raincloud, mass of evaporated water in the sky" is attested by c. 1200 based on similarity of cumulus clouds and rock masses. The usual Old English word for "cloud" was weolcan. In Middle English, skie also originally meant "cloud."

The four fundamental types of cloud classification (cirrus, cumulus, stratus, nimbus) were proposed by British amateur meteorologist Luke Howard (1772-1864) in 1802. Figuratively, as something that casts a shadow, from early 15c.; hence under a cloud (c. 1500). In the clouds "removed from earthly things; obscure, fanciful, unreal" is from 1640s. Cloud-compeller translates (poetically) Greek nephelegereta, a Homeric epithet of Zeus.
cloud (v.): early 15c., "overspread with clouds, cover, darken," from cloud (n.). From 1510s as "to render dim or obscure;" 1590s as "to overspread with gloom." Intransitive sense of "become cloudy" is from 1560s. Related: Clouded; clouding.

2. The American edition of "Cloud Street" is already in its third printing.: 美國版的《云街》已經是第三次印刷了。

3. A sudden break in the cloud allowed rescuers to spot Michael Benson.: 天氣的突然放晴幫助救援人員找到了邁克爾·本森。

4. I saw Sean's face cloud over at this blatant lie.: 我看見肖恩聽到這個赤裸裸的謊話后臉色陰沉下來。