James Nicol, the author of The Cloud Thief, came up with the idea for the story while taking a walk in Yorkshire in the United Kingdom. One bright day, he noticed clouds rising up from a power plant, which sparked the idea of a factory that makes clouds. This idea stayed with him until he eventually developed it into a story about a girl breaking into a cloud factory to steal a cloud.
《偷云贼》的作者詹姆士．尼可在英国约克郡散步时有了这个故事的想法。在晴朗的一天，他注意到云朵从一座发电厂升起，激发了一座工厂制造云朵的想法。这个想法一直伴随著他，直到他最终将其发展成一个关于一位女孩闯入云朵工厂窃取云朵的故事。
生活必备字词：
spark vt. 激发（点子）；引起
eventually adv. 最终
break into... 闯进……
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