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

• 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。
• 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。
• A woman's dress style that imitates the caftan cloaks worn by men in the Near East.
  模仿近东男士穿的长袖外衣的一种女士衣服。
• 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。
• 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。
• The people therefore took dough before it was leavened: and tying it in their cloaks, put it on their shoulders.
  百姓便把没有发酵的面团和面盆包在外衣内，背在肩上。
• 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。
• 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。
• He dare not use tiger cloaks.
  但他不敢用老虎军。
• They brought the donkey and the colt, placed their cloaks on them, and Jesus sat on them.
  牵了驴和驴驹来，把自己的衣服搭在上面，耶稣就骑上。