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2019年1月30日 · Some of the definitions of sky found there include: sky (n.) n. The appearance of the upper atmosphere, especially with reference to weather. Often used in the plural: Threatening skies portend a storm. sky (n.) The apparent arch, or vault, of heaven, which in a clear day is of a blue color; the heavens; the firmament; -- sometimes in the plural.
2015年3月21日 · Use skies when referring to the sky in a general sense (not referring to a specific location). In your example: ...under clear skies on the icy Norwegian islands of Svalbard. depending where you are on the island, you will see a different area of the sky that is clear, Also a major airliner has a famous slogan: Fly the friendly skies.
2016年8月3日 · I never get tired of looking at what's happening up there. - K. D. Lang. There is the sky, which is all men's together. - Euripides. Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books. - John Lubbock.
2021年4月24日 · From what I’ve learned (and remember), proper nouns are usually names (of nouns) therefore “sky” is considered a common noun. An example would be the words “month” and “January”; “month” isn’t capitalized because it’s a common noun but “January” is because it’s a name of a month. Answers need to be definitive.
2023年11月17日 · There is no boundary between "sky" and "space", a sky doesn't even require an atmosphere - if you were standing on the moon, you could see the earth in the moon's black sky. A star may be both in the sky and in space, it's not an either-or as the last sentence suggests.
A simple search of >"the sky is falling down" idiom<, for example, would render this question moot. I'm voting to close the question for that reason. In addition, this question seems more like a solicitation of "writing advice" more than anything else, and is in appropriate for ELL for that reason.
2018年3月30日 · You are correct in British English at least. It can "be pouring with rain", the rain can be "pouring". The commentator is wrong "It was pouring rain" does not work. Note that "pouring with rain" is a particular kind of rain; as if someone was tipping it out of a bucket. Its not "fine rain", and its not "spitting" rain and its not torrential ...
2020年9月11日 · 1. If we use the term our usual way, yes, there is one sky. Cambridge Dictionary, however, also has this definition: skies [ plural ] the sky in a particular state or place: For weeks we had cloudless blue skies. We're off to the sunny skies of Florida. Ngram shows also significant use of 'skies'. We may deduce that it is countable.
2021年5月21日 · For a sky vessel it could be direction or altitude. Walking through a room would mean you are in the room and moving. Standing in the room would mean you are there but not moving through it. So steering through they sky means the vessel is in the sky and also moving through the sky. Some other verb with in might not have the motion aspect.
2019年2月11日 · The English language, like every human language, is finite. It comes pre-loaded with lots of words that people through its history have needed, but some things that you might want to say do not have words yet. I think the appearance of the sky in your picture is
