Unafraid of the ocean's power, they blithely reach out their cirri to capture tiny plankton.

它们毫不畏惧海水的力量，悠然自得地伸出蔓足，以捕食水中的浮游生物为生。

The high altitude cirrus cloud, on the other hand, is mostly made of ice crystals and appears wispy and thin almost hair like in fact.

另一方面，高空卷云主要由冰晶构成，看去纤细如毛。

There were high cumulus clouds and enough cirrus above them so that the old man knew the breeze would last all night.

积云堆聚得很高，空还有相当多的卷云，因此老人看出这风将一夜。

The highest flying clouds here are cirrus clouds which can be found at altitudes of 20,000 to 40,000 feet.

这最高的飞行云是卷云，可以在2到4英尺的高度找到。

On any given day odds are you'll see several contrails, some slowly spreading out to form high, cirrus clouds.

每天我们都有机会看到航迹云，有些会慢慢散开形成高空卷云。

Slender sheaves of cirrus clouds were followed on the horizon by layers of nimbocumulus. Other low clouds fled swiftly.

天际边一层层散开的卷云的后面，紧随团团乌云，还有一些低云飞快地掠过。

He looked at the sky and saw the white cumulus built like friendly piles of ice cream and high above were the thin feathers of the cirrus against the high September sky.

他望望天空，看见一团团白色的积云，形状象一堆堆可人心意的冰淇淋，而在高高的空，高爽的九月的天空衬托着一团团羽毛般的卷云。

AACPs are the wispy, cirrus clouds that form near the overshooting tops.

穹顶云卷云柱是那些在超越顶部附近形成的细长卷云。

There are five primary cloud types: stratus, cumulus, stratocumulus, cumulonimbus  and cirrus, each of which are subdivided into different genera based on altitude.

有五种主要的云类型：层云、积云、层积云、积雨云和卷云，每种云都根据海拔高度细分为不同的属。

His tail floats now behind him, now above him, level or gracefully curled like a wisp of cirrus cloud, every hair in its place, clean and shining and radiant as thistle-down in spite of rough, gummy work.

像一缕卷云一样水平或优雅地卷曲， 每一根毛发都各就各位， 干净、闪亮， 尽管经过了粗糙、粘稠的工作， 但仍像蓟绒一样闪闪发光。

I used to be observant and find that they would do it in late afternoon so that those real high, thin clouds, which they will tell you those are cirrus clouds, but they're not, they're artificial.

我曾细心观察， 发现他们通常在傍晚时分进行操作，制造出那些极高且稀薄的云层， 他们可能会告诉你那是卷云，但实际并非自然形成， 而是人为制造的。

And these are clouds that just hang out up there, and they're just, they're very stable, cirrus clouds.

这些是悬在那的云层，它们非常稳定，是卷云。

The last new formation was cirrus intortus, added way back in 1951.

最后一个新的形态是卷云，早在 1951 年就已添加。

Storms that were strong enough to make these features--called above anvil cirrus plumes, or AACPs-- were also more likely to have severe tornadoes, large hail, and high winds.

足以形成这些特征的风暴——称为铁砧卷云羽方，或 AACPs——也更有可能产生强龙卷风、大冰雹和大风。

Howard believed that all clouds belonged to three distinct groups: cumulus, stratus and cirrus.

霍华德认为所有的云属于三个不同的类别：积云、层云和卷云。