cloaks

英 [kləʊks]

美 [kloʊks]

n.  (尤指旧时的)披风，斗篷; 遮盖物
v.  遮盖; 掩盖
cloak的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• 斗篷;披风
  Acloakis a long, loose, sleeveless piece of clothing which people used to wear over their other clothes when they went out.
• N-SING 覆盖物;遮盖物
  Acloak ofsomething such as mist or snow completely covers and hides something.
  1. Today most of England will be under a cloak of thick mist.
     今天，英格兰大部分地区将被浓雾笼罩。
• N-SING 掩盖;伪装;幌子
  If you refer to something as acloak, you mean that it is intended to hide the truth about something.
  1. Preparations for the wedding were made under a cloak of secrecy...
     婚礼的准备工作是秘密进行的。
• VERB 笼罩;覆盖;遮掩
  Tocloaksomething means to cover it or hide it.
  1. ...the decision to cloak major tourist attractions in unsightly hoardings...
     在主要景点外挂满刺眼的大幅广告牌的决定
  2. A fire could have been deliberately started to cloak small coordinated troop movements...
     可能是有人故意放火掩护小规模的部队协同行动。
  3. The beautiful sweeping coastline was cloaked in mist.
     美丽的海岸线一望无际，笼罩在迷雾之中。

双语例句

• I doubt even these elvish cloaks will hide us in there.
  我怀疑到里面披精灵斗蓬也没有用。
• Once again they drew their cloaks tightly around them, rearranged their scarves, pulled on their gloves, then followed Katie Bell and a friend out of the pub and back up the High Street.
  于是，他们又一次把斗篷裹得紧紧的，用围巾把脸挡住，戴上手套，跟在凯蒂·贝尔和一位朋友的后面出了酒吧，顺着大路往回走。
• As he went along, people spread their cloaks on the road.
  走的时候、众人都把衣服铺在路上。
• Both wore shirts of worn leather beneath cloaks of dark brown wool, but their swords were sheathed and the fat man did not look to be in danger.
  他们内着旧皮衬衣外披深棕色羊毛斗篷，但剑未出鞘，看来胖总督也不是遇到了什么危险。
• Current work in developing invisibility cloaks tries to hide an object spatially.
  当前各类开发隐身衣的研究试图将一个物体在空间中隐藏起来。
• For an instant, the deep red clouds that crowned the western hills reminded him of Rhaegar's children, all wrapped up in crimson cloaks.
  有那么一瞬间，西方山顶上笼罩着的深红云朵让他想起了雷加的孩子们，和他们遇害后被紧紧包裹在深红色斗篷里的身躯。
• None of us is hiding Sirius Black under our cloaks. Go.
  我们谁都没有把小天狼星布莱克藏在斗篷下面，去吧。
• In fairy-tales, witches always wear silly black hats and black cloaks, and they ride on broomsticks.
  在童话故事中，巫婆总是骑在扫帚上，头带着可笑的黑帽子，身着黑斗篷。
• When alone, the chair merges into the background becoming almost invisible as it cloaks itself in its environment.
  当这件坐椅周围没有人的时候，它会几乎完全隐形。
• Now you will remember that everyone at the ball was wearing strange cloaks and masks, which belonged more to the world of dreams and wild imagination than to everyday life.
  现在诸位会记起，参加舞会的每一个人都是穿戴着千奇百怪的斗篷和面具的，而这些装束在日常生活中并不常见，它们更多地属于一个梦幻与狂想的世界。