cloud是什么意思

详细释义

• 0 a grey or white mass in the sky, made up of very small floating drops of water -- 雲

  • Do you think those are rain clouds on the horizon? 你看天邊那些雲是雨雲嗎？

  • The sky was a perfect blue - not a cloud in sight. 天空一片湛藍——萬裡無雲。

  • Dark clouds massed on the horizon. 天邊烏雲密佈。

  • UK There was so much cloud, we couldn't see anything. 雲層太厚，我們甚麼也看不見。

• 1 a mass of something such as dust or smoke that looks like a cloud -- 一團（塵土、煙霧等）；雲狀物

  • On the eastern horizon, a huge cloud of smoke from burning oil tanks stretched across the sky. 在東方的地平線上，著火的儲油罐冒出的濃煙瀰漫在天際。

  • The initial cloud of tear gas had hardly cleared before shots were fired. 催淚瓦斯的第一團煙霧剛散盡，射擊就開始了。

• 2 a computer network where files and programs can be stored, especially the internet -- （網路）雲端

  • All the photographs are kept on the cloud rather than on hard drives. 所有的照片都存在網路雲端，而不是硬碟上。

• 3 If something transparent clouds, or if something clouds it, it becomes difficult to see through. -- （使）變得模糊，（使）變得黯然

  • When it came to explaining the lipstick on his collar, he found that drink had clouded (= confused) his memory. 等到要他解釋衣領上的口紅印時，他才意識到當時酒喝得太多，甚麼都記不清楚了。