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skyward

/skahy-werd/US // ˈskaɪ wərd //UK // (ˈskaɪwəd) //

天际,天空,天上,天上人间

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Definitions

adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : Also skywards. toward the sky.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : directed toward the sky.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Aluminum prices have jumped to the highest in 10 years, driven skyward in part by a crackdown on energy usage in China.

  • In another, two bodies fell from the plane as it climbed skyward.

  • Vent discharges, however, occurred only when ash-rich plumes with volcanic lightning rocketed skyward at velocities greater than about 55 meters per second.

  • Indeed, despite Warren’s 19th-century epiphany that the mummy in his care, named Padihershef, was a human being, the corpse remains under a glass case at the old surgical ward of the hospital, his head still unwrapped, staring forever skyward.

  • In time, these species evolved to grow skyward in dense communities that now blocked the sun from the forest floor.

  • Hoist that big historical asterisk skyward and place it next to his name.

  • I asked, watching buzzards, white-backed vultures, and tawny eagles corkscrew skyward on thermals.

  • On Beach 130th Street just below the fire scene, two portable police searchlights powered by a generator were pointed skyward.

  • But the mood in America—and the confidence levels at the White House—have zoomed skyward.

  • Two balloons floated skyward in front of the Canadian Pacific building.

  • Also rising here and there in the expanse, clouds that wind skyward, spreading out in a powdery mist.

  • He experimented carefully, floating the rocks at different angles and then hurtling them skyward.

  • He looked at the smashed automobiles, some with their four wheels pointing skyward like the stiffened legs of dead animals.

  • The broncho's back arched like a bow, and the saddle went skyward.

  • The man stopped, uttered an absurd little grunt, and thrust pudgy arms skyward.