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cirrus
卷云
核心释义
A principal high-level cloud type, composed of thin, delicate white filaments or narrow bands.
- 1.
卷须:植物攀援用的细长卷曲茎。
Synonym of tendril (“a thin, spirally coiling stem that attaches a plant to its support”).
- 2.
一种细长的卷须状附肢,如某些鱼类的触须、某些原生生物的纤毛或某些蔓足类的足。
A thin tendril-like appendage, such as a barbel (“whisker-like sensory organ around the mouth”) of some fish, a cilium of some species of protists, or a foot of some crustaceans of the infraclass Cirripedia.
- 3.
一种主要的高层云,通常由纤细而柔弱的白色丝缕或细带组成。
A principal high-level type of cloud, typically composed of thin, delicate, white filaments or wisps, or narrow bands.
触毛;触须;卷须;卷须:植物攀援用的细长卷曲茎。;一种细长的卷须状附肢,如某些鱼类的触须、某些原生生物的纤毛或某些蔓足类的足。;一种主要的高层云,通常由纤细而柔弱的白色丝缕或细带组成。
用法In use
The sky was filled with wispy cirrus clouds high above.
用法提示:此处 cirrus 作名词,与 clouds 一起表示‘卷云’的气象概念。
At high altitudes, cirrus often indicates an approaching warm front.
用法提示:cirrus 作为不可数名词,指代一种特定的云型。
The pilot noticed a band of cirrus ahead and adjusted the flight path.
用法提示:cirrus 前用 a band of 量化,表达‘一片卷云’的常用搭配。
cirrus cloud(s)
cirrus 常直接放在 cloud 前作定语,指高空的卷云。
Thin cirrus clouds stretched across the morning sky.
缕缕卷云横过清晨的天空。
cling to sth with its cirri
此义指植物的卷须,通常用复数形式 cirri。
相关词与表达Connections
易混词Confusing words
词族Word family
- cirrocumulus
- 卷积云 · n. (cirro- + cumulus)
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