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.
《偷雲賊》的作者詹姆士．尼可在英國約克郡散步時有了這個故事的想法。在晴朗的一天，他注意到雲朵從一座發電廠升起，激發了一座工廠製造雲朵的想法。這個想法一直伴隨著他，直到他最終將其發展成一個關於一位女孩闖入雲朵工廠竊取雲朵的故事。
生活必備字詞：
spark vt. 激發（點子）；引起
eventually adv. 最終
break into... 闖進……
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