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。
• 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。
• Salient facts have the capacity to drown out purely rent-seeking activity that cloaks itself in the public good.
  重要的事实只能压过那些以公共利益为幌子而实际上纯粹寻租的活动。
• Jesus friends put their cloaks and palm-tree leaves on the road, and waved palm leaves in the air.
  耶稣的朋友们把他们的衣服和棕榈树的叶子铺在路上，并且把棕榈树的叶子抛撒在空中。
• 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。
• Any of a variety of loose fitting cloaks extending to the hips or knees.
  各种到臀部或膝盖的宽松合适的外衣。
• His men had red cloaks and little lions on their helms. I liked those helms.
  他的手下穿着红色斗篷戴着狮子徽章的头盔，我喜欢那些头盔。
• They had also inaugurated the custom of letting the ladies take their cloaks off in the hall, instead of shuffling up to the hostess's bedroom and recurling their hair with the aid of the gas-burner;
  他们还开创了让女士们在门厅里脱下斗篷的风习，而不是把斗篷乱堆到楼上女主人的卧室里，再用煤气喷嘴重卷头发。
• 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。
• The individual tents that double up as cloaks are used a mattresses and the greatcoats are the blankets.
  单独的帐篷被两两拼起来当作通铺的床垫而军大衣就是毯子。