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cloud/cloudiness/cloudless/cloudy

What do they mean?

cloud雲noun；使佈滿雲verb

用作名詞時，cloud指“天空由小水珠形成的灰白團塊”；用作動詞時，它指“使……佈滿小水珠”，cloud over表示“雲層密佈”。

• The sun disappeared behind a cloud.

太陽消失在一朵雲的背後。

• My hot breath clouded the window.

我呼出來的熱氣使窗戶蒙上一層水蒸氣。

• The sky is clouding over. I hope it won't rain.

天空烏雲密佈，我希望不要下雨。

cloudiness陰暗noun

cloudiness指“烏雲密佈的狀態”。

• I can cope with cloudiness, as long as it doesn't actually rain.

只要沒有真的下雨，我可以應付這種陰沉天氣。

cloudless無雲的adjective

cloudless形容“天空沒有一絲雲彩”。

• We lay on the grass and looked up at the cloudless blue sky.

我們躺在草地上，望着那萬里無雲的藍天。

cloudy多雲；不透明的adjective

cloudy表示“多雲”，也“形容混濁不清的液體”。

• Tomorrow will be cloudy, with occasional light showers.

明天天氣多雲，間或有陣陣驟雨。

• The doctor gave me a glass containing a cloudy liquid to drink.

醫生遞給我一杯不透明液體，要我喝下去。

Fill in the blanks.

1　Joe looked at the_______sky and knew there would be no rain that day.

2　The steam from the pans sometimes_______Grandma's glasses.

3　Joe and Mary got married on a cool,_______day in March.

4　There were some very dark_______in the sky ahead of us.

5　The_______of the water discourages people from snorkelling.