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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Any of a variety of loose fitting cloaks extending to the hips or knees.
  各种到臀部或膝盖的宽松合适的外衣。
• 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。
• The red war cloaks are so becoming to men.
  男人披上红披风很好看。
• Mysterious people in cloaks all over the place?
  身穿披风的神秘人处处可见？
• 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。
• 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。
• Salient facts have the capacity to drown out purely rent-seeking activity that cloaks itself in the public good.
  重要的事实只能压过那些以公共利益为幌子而实际上纯粹寻租的活动。