sky: [13] Our Anglo-Saxon ancestors called the sky heofon ‘heaven’. Not until the early Middle English period did heaven begin to be pushed aside by sky, a borrowing from Old Norse ský ‘cloud’. This came ultimately from an Indo- European base meaning ‘cover’, which also produced Latin obscūrus, source of English obscure [14]. (For a while English continued to use sky for ‘cloud’ as well as for ‘sky’: the medieval Scots poet William Dunbar wrote, ‘When sable all the heaven arrays with misty vapours, clouds, and skies’.) => obscure
sky (n.)
c. 1200, "a cloud," from Old Norse sky "cloud," from Proto-Germanic *skeujam "cloud, cloud cover" (cognates: Old English sceo, Old Saxon scio "cloud, region of the clouds, sky;" Old High German scuwo, Old English scua, Old Norse skuggi "shadow;" Gothic skuggwa "mirror"), from PIE root *(s)keu- "to cover, conceal" (see hide (n.1)).
Meaning "upper regions of the air" is attested from c. 1300; replaced native heofon in this sense (see heaven). In Middle English, the word can still mean both "cloud" and "heaven," as still in the skies, originally "the clouds." Sky-high is from 1812; phrase the sky's the limit is attested from 1908. Sky-dive first recorded 1965; sky-writing is from 1922.
sky (v.)
"to raise or throw toward the skies," 1802, from sky (n.).
雙語例句
1. He sat mute, speechless with ecstasy, gazing into the sky.
他靜靜坐著，凝視天空，一言不發，心馳神往。
來自柯林斯例句
2. He can't help thinking it's all just "pie in the sky" talk.
他禁不住想所有這些不過是“畫餅充饑”的空話而已。
來自柯林斯例句
3. Her silk shirtdress was sky-blue, the colour of her eyes.
她一襲天藍色的真絲襯衫式連身裙，和她的雙眸顏色一樣。
來自柯林斯例句
4. Suddenly a bolt of lightning crackled through the sky.