遮天蔽日 meaning in English
blot out the sky and cover the sun; cover all the sky
Examples
- Now arrived the abbot and several hundred monks and nuns, all drawn by the prodigious smoke, and all in a grand state of excitement .
这时候，方丈和好几百僧民都来到了，全都被那遮天蔽日的黑烟吸引来的，也全都兴奋得了不得。 - Our arrows will blot out the sun
我们的箭会遮天蔽日。 - But now there is no water running in the stream . sadness and chaos gather and cover the sky in the shape of dark clouds
然而现在，溪流早已枯竭。蜂拥而至的悲伤和混乱化作黑云，遮天蔽日。 - For days on end , for the first two years of the famine , great clouds of these bugs swarmed over the four provinces , blotting out the sun and consuming almost all plant life in their path
在饥荒的头两年，蝗群一来，有如乌云压境，遮天蔽日，席卷边区四省，数日不散，经过之地，庄稼片叶无存。 - Indeed , the wu family dislikes the light gray smog of sulfur particles and other pollutants that darkens the sky and dulls the dark green fields of young wheat and the white blossoms of peach orchards in the distance
当然，吴的一家不喜欢那些含有硫和其他污染物的黑烟，它们遮天蔽日，弄脏小麦青苗和雪白的桃花。