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the skies

/skahy/US // skaɪ //UK // (skaɪ) //

天空,天空中,天上,天空中的

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
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    plural skies.Often skies .

    • : the region of the clouds or the upper air; the upper atmosphere of the earth: airplanes in the sky; cloudy skies.
    • : the heavens or firmament, appearing as a great arch or vault.
    • : the supernal or celestial heaven: They looked to the sky for help.
    • : the climate: the sunny skies of Italy.
    • : Obsolete. a cloud.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    skied or skyed, sky·ing.

    • : Informal. to raise, throw, or hit aloft or into the air.
    • : Informal. to hang high on a wall, above the line of vision.
  1. 1
    • : sky up, Falconry. to fly straight upward.

Phrases

  • blow sky-high
  • out of a clear blue sky
  • pie in the sky

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Historical accounts of California summers describe months of smoky skies, but as a feature of the landscape, not a bug.

  • When combined with additional data from other sky surveys, that alignment quantifies how much the matter in the universe is clumped together.

  • With India’s aviation industry flying through troubled skies, sectors that are dependent on airlines have now started to feel the heat.

  • If you are working with smaller pieces, each contains less context for figuring out where it came from, especially in parts of the puzzle without any unique clues, like a blue sky.

  • Four years ago, three big tech companies had plans in the works to beam internet down to Earth from the sky, and each scenario sounded wilder than the next.

  • They looked up into the blue sky as the helicopters flew over in a lost man formation.

  • Where these laser-like missiles are falling out of the sky onto a city and you have to stop each of them from hitting the targets?

  • “At least it keeps the mosquitoes away,” one of my table-mates said, as we watched the swooshes of smoke waft into the Havana sky.

  • Rob Marshall lets a sigh of relief erupt so loud it could be heard by giants in the sky.

  • The sky is not the limit; beliefs still must be sincere and connected to some for-real source.

  • It was the darkest hour of twilight, when there was just enough of gleam from the lurid sky, to shew the outline of objects.

  • He had seen through a powerful naval glass some figures standing erect and silhouetted against the sky on the parapet.

  • If it should ever be my lot to take the Long Trail at short notice, I hope it will be under a blue sky and a blazing sun.

  • The storm, however, was over; the moon and stars were shining in a clear sky, and the aurora was dancing merrily.

  • We stumbled along, close up, for the thick-piled clouds still hung their light-obscuring banners over the sky.