Word · Frequency #2333
cloud
使模糊；蒙蔽
To make something unclear or less sharp (e.g., judgment or a memory).
- 1.
To become foggy or gloomy, or obscured from sight.
变得模糊或阴沉,或被遮挡
- 2.
To overspread or hide with a cloud or clouds.
用云覆盖或隐藏
- 3.
Of the breath, to become cloud; to turn into mist.
呼吸变成云雾；变成雾气
- 4.
To make obscure.
使模糊
- 5.
To make less acute or perceptive.
使不那么敏锐或敏感
- 6.
To make gloomy or sullen.
使阴郁或愠怒
- 7.
To blacken; to sully; to stain; to tarnish (reputation or character).
使变黑；玷污；损害(声誉或品格)
- 8.
To mark with, or darken in, veins or sports; to variegate with colors.
用纹理或斑点标记或使变暗；用颜色使多样化
- 9.
To become marked, darkened or variegated in this way.
以这种方式被标记、变暗或多样化
使布满云；被云遮蔽；（使）起雾；使阴沉；使忧郁；玷污；败坏；使有花纹；使有云纹；变得模糊或阴沉,或被遮挡
In use
The steam from the hot shower clouded the mirror.
The sky began to cloud over in the afternoon.
Her judgment was clouded by anger.
cloud sth
常用比喻义，指使事物变得不清晰或难以理解。
The fog clouded the road.
雾气使道路变得模糊。
cloud over
多用于描述天气变化，也可指表情变阴郁。
The sky clouded over and it started to rain.
天空乌云密布，开始下雨了。
cloud up
常指物体表面因水汽变得模糊不清。
His glasses clouded up in the steam.
他的眼镜在蒸汽中起雾了。
Verb forms
Connections
Collocations
- cloud over
- 布满云；变阴
- The sky clouded over and it started to rain.天空布满了云，开始下雨了。
- cloud the issue
- 使问题模糊；搅浑水
- Try not to cloud the issue with unrelated facts.尽量不要用无关的事实把问题弄得模糊不清。
- cloud one's judgment
- 影响判断；使判断力模糊
- Anger clouded his judgment.愤怒使他的判断力变得模糊。
- cloud the waters
- 把水搅浑；（喻）使情况复杂化
- The new evidence only clouded the waters.新证据只是把情况弄得更复杂了。
- cloud one's memory
- 使记忆模糊
- Time had clouded her memory of the event.时间让她对那件事的记忆变得模糊。
- cloud the sky
Learner notes
Memory Tip
云（cloud）遮住太阳，视线变暗——动词记“使模糊；蒙蔽；使阴沉”，一块云就是一个动作。
Context & Register
语域：mixed 常见场景：weather and sky、breath or window、judgment or thinking、reputation or character 该动词的语体随义项变化：字面义（云层遮蔽、使起雾）多用于日常天气或视线描写；引申义（使模糊、蒙蔽、损害声誉）比较常见于书面或较正式的表达，如 cloud someone's judgment 或 cloud a reputation。整体来看正式与非正式场合都会出现，因此标为混合。
Pronunciation & Spelling
与 cloud (/klaʊd/) 同韵的词：loud /laʊd/、proud /praʊd/、crowd /kraʊd/、aloud /əˈlaʊd/，重读元音和后面的辅音都是 /aʊd/。拼写相似的 clout /klaʊt/ 和 could /kʊd/ 发音不同：clout 以 /t/ 结尾，could 的元音是 /ʊ/ 而非 /aʊ/。
High-value vocabulary
该词属于 Oxford 核心词汇，值得优先掌握常见搭配和句型。
Usage priority
Collins 词频等级为 3，建议结合例句记忆，而不是只背中文释义。
Learn the forms together
页面下方列出了常见词形变化。学习时注意它们在句子中的语法位置。
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