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词汇 clouding
释义 clouding
present participle ofcloud
cloud
verb
uk /klaʊd/ us /klaʊd/
[ I or T ]
If something transparent clouds, or if something clouds it, it becomes difficult to see through.(使)变得模糊,(使)变得黯然
C2[ T ]
to make someone confused, or make something more difficult to understand: 使迷惑;使不清楚;使难以理解
cloud someone's memoryWhen it came to explaining the lipstick on his collar, he found that drink had clouded (= confused) his memory.等到要他解释衣领上的口红印时,他才意识到当时酒喝得太多,什么都记不清了。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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billow
brume
chemtrail
cirrus
cloud-capped
cloudily
cloudlessly
dull
haze
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misty
overcast
pall
Scotch mist
steam (something) up
steamily
sub-visible
vapour trail
vog

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Puzzle and confuse

Phrasal verb


cloud over

Examples of clouding


clouding

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.


Score, infinitely pliable, can manipulate and metamorphose, clouding lines of functional demarcation - even emulating source.
It has a narrower range of action below a threshold for clouding.
Differentiating "clouding" from "reduced" consciousness is surely clinically uncertain.
Ventral surface of thorax and abdomen very pale orange, suffused with faint olive-green cloudings except on the prosternum.
Unpatterned fire clouding is common (apar t from the patterned differential firing characteristic of some types).
Clouding of consciousness, along with fluctuation, are key features of the syndrome.
The complexity of the question is enormous enough without further clouding of the issues.
Clouding of consciousness was related to awareness and attention.
The hind femoral band is a persistent element and fades to a dusky clouding only in the most extreme types.
He is also keenly interested in definitions and their influence on understanding, or clouding, our comprehension of each topic.
On the head and tip of the femur it becomes duller, and in the final stages of its reduction it is represented only by a dusky clouding.
They suggest that ethylene leaking up faults and fractures, following pulses of seismic activity, might explain the priestess's inspiration as the result of narcotic and 'not disagreeable mental clouding'.
It is this possible obfuscation and clouding of the issue that we wish to avoid.
From the
Hansard archive

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I urge you to stop clouding the issue and to stop playing word games.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
If we blur the defining lines, we are not just affecting quality, development and our traditions, but we are clouding further the already murky picture.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
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