Canopy

(noun.) a covering (usually of cloth) that serves as a roof to shelter an area from the weather.

(noun.) the umbrellalike part of a parachute that fills with air.

(noun.) the transparent covering of an aircraft cockpit.

(verb.) cover with a canopy.

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• The main entrance was some hundred feet in width and projected from the building proper to form a huge canopy above the entrance hall. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• The earth was spread out as an highway for him; the heavens built up as a canopy for him. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• The oak roots, turfed and mossed, gave a seat; the oak boughs, thick-leaved, wove a canopy. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• It was full of the moon, which looked solemnly and mildly down on Caroline from beneath that sombre canopy. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• His fame spread, like the sound of a great bell hung in the canopy of the skies. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Somehow, a canopy of wet blanket seems to descend upon the company, and Lady Tippins was never known to turn so very greedy or so very cross. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.

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