sky

• n. 天空；顶点
• vt. 把…投向空中；把…挂得过高
• vi. 踢或击高空球；把桨叶翘得过高；飞涨
• n. (Sky)人名；(英)斯凯

来自古诺斯语 sky,云，云层，来自 Proto-Germanic*skeujam,云，云层，来自 PIE*skeu,遮盖， 覆盖，词源同 hide,obscure.后词义由云演变为天空，而 cloud 词义由群山演变为云。

1. the atmosphere and outer space as viewed from the earth

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 ský ‘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.).

heaven, sky, paradise

这些名词均有"天"或"天堂"之意。

heaven： 作"天空"解时，常用复数，文学用词；作"天堂"解时，多用大写形式，采用单数。

sky： 普通用词，指人们头顶上的天空，一般属于笼罩地球的空气层。较少用于指天国或天堂。

paradise与heaven同义，宗教色彩浓厚，指好人死后灵魂长存之处，口语中表示乐园或乐事，在宗教典故中，指天主教与基督教中的伊甸乐园。

If the Great Depression is any guide, we may see a drop in our sky high divorce rate.

出自-2012年6月阅读原文

A raccoon, a small cat like animal climbed to the top of a 25-story sky scraper early on Wednesday.

2019年12月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section A

Some communities have agreed to share online—geneticists, for example, post DNA sequences at the GenBank repository ( ' , 库), and astronomers are accustomed to accessing images of galaxies and stars from, say, the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, a telescope that has observed some 500 million objects—but these remain the exception, not the rule.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

Even today, says the legend, the girls can be seen above the towering rock as seven shining stars in the night sky.

出自-2016年12月听力原文

Smith touches on construction methods, the revolutionary invention of the automatic lift, the practicalities of living in the sky and the likelihood that, as cities become more crowded, apartment living will become the norm.

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

More than paradise lost, a perishing rain forest could trigger a domino effect - sending winds and rains kilometers off course and loading the skies with even greater levels of greenhouse gases - that will be felt far beyond the Amazon basin.

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Some communities have agreed to share online—geneticists, for example, post DNA sequences at the GenBank repository 库, and astronomers are accustomed to accessing images of galaxies and stars from, say, the Sloan digital Sky Survey, a telescope that has o

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At a time of limited means of expression, snow was like free art supplies dropped from the sky.

2015年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

Hospital patients who see tree branches out their window are likely to recover at a faster rate than patients who see buildings or sky instead.

2019年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 七选五 原文

In most cities the sky looks as though it has been emptied of stars, leaving behind a vacant haze that mirrors our fear of the dark.

2015年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Light pollution is largely the result of bad lighting design, which allows artificial light to shine outward and upward into the sky.

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The next time you're standing at the sink waiting for it to fill while cooking noodle soup that you'll have to eat until a large bag of cash falls out of the sky, don't be desperate.

2017年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

When we touched down to blue skies and warm air, I sent up a small prayer of gratefulness.

2015年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

With her talent and determination, it appears that the sky could be the limit for Alice moore.

2019年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

Written accounts from the 18th and 19th centuries described flocks so large that they the sky for hours.

2014年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

Perhaps that is why we explore the starry skies, as if answering a primal calling to know ourselves and our true ancestral homes.

出自-2017年考研阅读原文

If the sky, and the share price is falling, outside directors should be able to give advice based on having weathered their own crises.

2011年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

He can't help thinking it's all just "pie in the sky" talk.

他禁不住想所有这些不过是“画饼充饥”的空话而已。

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Her silk shirtdress was sky-blue, the colour of her eyes.

她一袭天蓝色的真丝衬衫式连身裙，和她的双眸颜色一样。

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Suddenly a bolt of lightning crackled through the sky.

突然一道闪电划破长空。

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There was a low humming sound in the sky.

空中传来一阵低沉的嗡嗡声。

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Her silk dress was sky-blue, the colour of her eyes.

她的丝绸连衣裙是天蓝色的，和她眼睛的颜色一样。

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The night sky was lit up by flashes of light.

一道道灯光照亮了夜空。

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In the mornings the sky appeared a heavy shade of mottled gray.

清晨，天空呈现出斑驳的深灰色。

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Intense balls of flame rose up into the sky.

炽热的火球冲上天空。

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The Sky News TV station is largely run by ex-BBC news staffers.

空中新闻电视台主要是由原英国广播公司的新闻工作人员运作的。

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The apex of the flames licked the crimson sky.

火焰的舌尖舔卷着绯红色的天空。

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The aeroplane was gyrating about the sky in a most unpleasant fashion.

飞机在空中盘旋，令人不堪忍受。

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The plane lifted off and climbed steeply into the sky.

飞机起飞并迅速爬升至空中。

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The sea would turn pale pink and the sky blood red.

大海会变成浅粉色，天空则变成血红色。

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The sky was changing from translucent blue to thicker grey.

天空由通透的湛蓝色变成了暗灰色。

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The sky, swollen like a black bladder, rumbled and crackled.

天空中乌云黑沉沉地压下来，发出隆隆声和噼啪声。

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