sky

英 [ska?] 美[ska?]

CET4TEM4考研CET6中頻詞基本詞匯

復數:?skies;第三人稱單數:?skies;過去式:?skied;過去分詞:?skied;現在分詞:?skying;

1. 諧音“是蓋”。
2. sky 【世蓋蓋住世界】n.天，天空

sky 天，天空

來自古諾斯語 sky,云，云層，來自 Proto-Germanic*skeujam,云，云層，來自 PIE*skeu,遮蓋，覆蓋，詞源同 hide,obscure.后詞義由云演變為天空，而 cloud 詞義由群山演變為云。

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 sky ‘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’.)
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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.).

1. He sat mute, speechless with ecstasy, gazing into the sky.: 他靜靜坐著，凝視天空，一言不發，心馳神往。

2. He can't help thinking it's all just "pie in the sky" talk.: 他禁不住想所有這些不過是“畫餅充饑”的空話而已。

3. Her silk shirtdress was sky-blue, the colour of her eyes.: 她一襲天藍色的真絲襯衫式連身裙，和她的雙眸顏色一樣。