sky的意思|sky的解释-里氏词典

sky [skai]

n. 天空, 天色, 天堂

vt. 击向空中, 挂在高处

vi. 高涨

[法] 天, 天空, 气候

sky

[ noun ]

the atmosphere and outer space as viewed from the earth

<noun.object>

[ verb ]

throw or toss with a light motion

<verb.contact>

flip

pitch

toss

flip me the beachball
toss me newspaper

Sky \Sky\ (sk[imac]), n.; pl. {Skies} (sk[imac]z). [OE. skie a
cloud, Icel. sk[=y]; akin to Sw. & Dan. sky; cf. AS. sc[=u]a,
sc[=u]wa, shadow, Icel. skuggi; probably from the same root
as E. scum. [root]158. See {Scum}, and cf. {Hide} skin,
{Obscure}.]
1. A cloud. [Obs.]

[A wind] that blew so hideously and high,
That it ne lefte not a sky
In all the welkin long and broad. --Chaucer.

2. Hence, a shadow. [Obs.]

She passeth as it were a sky. --Gower.

3. The apparent arch, or vault, of heaven, which in a clear
day is of a blue color; the heavens; the firmament; --
sometimes in the plural.

The Norweyan banners flout the sky. --Shak.

4. The wheather; the climate.

Thou wert better in thy grave than to answer with
thy uncovered body this extremity of the skies.
--Shak.

Note: Sky is often used adjectively or in the formation of
self-explaining compounds; as, sky color, skylight,
sky-aspiring, sky-born, sky-pointing, sky-roofed, etc.

{Sky blue}, an azure color.

{Sky scraper} (Naut.), a skysail of a triangular form.
--Totten.

{Under open sky}, out of doors. ``Under open sky adored.''
--Milton.

Sky \Sky\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Skied}or {Skyed}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Skying}.]
1. To hang (a picture on exhibition) near the top of a wall,
where it can not be well seen. [Colloq.]

Brother Academicians who skied his pictures. --The
Century.

2. To throw towards the sky; as, to sky a ball at cricket.
[Colloq.]

And once that becomes evident to investors, these optimistic analysts see nothing ahead but blue sky for stock prices.
Now we are seeing it in a western democracy. In London this may seem like pie in the sky.
One rainy night he rescues 54 people from a burning plane. There he is, juddering through outer Chicago in his noisy-wipered car, when the steel monster falls from the sky.
It is discipline in the equality of men _ for all men are equal before fish." From the flat high desert of western Wyoming a traveler looks far back over his shoulder to see distant white clouds high in the northeastern sky.
Two sonic booms crackled over the desert as Atlantis swooped powerless through the clear sky, making wide circles as it descended.
China's sky will not collapse,' she said. In Los Angeles last week, US companies signed 11 contracts for Chinese projects worth Dollars 1.3bn (Pounds 870m) and another 134 letters of intent worth billions more.
I drove home beneath a starlit, velvet sky, singing.
The beer will flow and fireworks will light up the sky as the Germans usher in unification with a wild street celebration that will be repeated in dozens of cities nationwide.
The permanent set consisted of a bare white room, with mysterious side entrances and a backdrop opening up to reveal sky and snow.
Finally, mission control in Houston radioed: "We're not going to make it." Over the pad, the sky was fairly clear.
This picture was painted in Arizona, in the little house she and Max Ernst built on top of a hill in Sedona, where they lived surrounded by vistas of desert and sky.
"Egypt was able to say the sky's falling in and we're the only one that can help hold it up," says a Western diplomat in Cairo.
There it was, right near "Night Mission." "Double Trouble" is a painting of twin nude, buxom women in a swan-dive from the sky, their heads and shoulders back and propellers spinning from their thrust-out chests.
She stops to inspect an elk track, then reels off the names of plants anchored in the dry mountain soil: sage and sego lilies, colorful cinquefoils, an ancient whitebark pine with gnarled branches scratching like claws at the sky.
Atlantis lit up the sky in a rare launch in darkness Thursday as it streaked into orbit on a secret military mission that reportedly will send a satellite to spy on Iraq.
From below, the view is breathtaking: the ornate architecture of the Louvre's twin towers looms against the ever-changing grays of the Paris sky.
Firework rockets streaked across the sky in the early evening, leaving red and blue trails.
This lovely view, half water and half sky, is so spacious and tranquil that it recalls landscapes by Giovanni Bellini, his brother-in-law.
Fireworks _ the kind launched by Dad at a July 4th picnic _ once exploded across the summer sky, then were mostly extinguished by stringent federal bans.
The two-minute test will burn approximately 1.1 million pounds of solid fuel propellant, sending a cloud of smoke and flame thousands of feet into the sky.
Fyffe got on the UFO circuit Feb. 10 when a woman reported seeing a strange light in the sky and police later reported seeing a large lighted object passing silently over them.
A man on trial for murder in the beating of his illegally adopted daughter once whacked the sleeping 6-year-old in the face "out of the clear blue sky," a witness testified.
Recently discovered Comet Austin may put on a big show in the eastern sky at dawn in late April and early May, delighting sky watchers who needed binoculars to get a decent peek at Halley's Comet.
Recently discovered Comet Austin may put on a big show in the eastern sky at dawn in late April and early May, delighting sky watchers who needed binoculars to get a decent peek at Halley's Comet.
Deployment of the satellite came 6 hours, 12 minutes after Discovery leaped from its seaside launch pad and raced out of view across a clear Florida sky in a launch that marked a successful beginning to NASA's plan to fly seven shuttles this year.
The whole sky went red and the airport shook like an earthquake." Money, passports, watches and clothes were scattered along the tarmac.
A low passageway scooped out at the middle of the wall admits visitors to the conservatory and to the hollowed-out, open-to-the sky heart of the hillside, where the various reinforced-concrete components are arranged around a courtyard and a tiny lake.
Flames leaped through the night sky.
Three decades after he and a U.S. Navy officer set a world record by diving as deep in the sea as jetliners fly high in the sky, the Swiss deep-sea researcher Jacques Piccard has designed a submarine for tourists.
RED MARS by Kim Stanley Robinson HarperCollins Pounds 14.99, 501 pages NO shimmering light in the night sky has exercised the human imagination so tirelessly as Mars.

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