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

• The tech could result in clothing that cloaks the wearer.
  这项科技可以被用来制造隐身衣服或隐身斗篷。
• He dare not use tiger cloaks.
  但他不敢用老虎军。
• 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。
• 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。
• Fine feathers and scarlet cloaks would not be excuses for baseness and deception.
  漂亮的帽缨，鲜红的军服也就不能成为开脱卑鄙行径和欺骗手段的工具了。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。