tempest
发音
英 [ˈtempɪst]
美 [ˈtempɪst]
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- n.
- 暴风雨
- 似风暴般的事物
- 骚动
- 风波
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- vt.
- 使遭暴风雨(或雪)
- 使骚动,使激动
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- vi.
- 起暴风雨(或雪)
- 骚动,激动
单词词源
tempest 暴风雨,暴风雪
来自拉丁语 tempestas,风暴,暴风雨,暴风雪,来自 tempus,时间,季节,词源同 temporal. 词义由一段时间引申为特殊的时间,恶劣天气,最后指暴风雨雪天气,即代表性的天气特征。 词义演变比较 meteor,meteorology.
双语例句
- 1. How the emerging world copes with the tempest will affect the world economy and politics for a long time
- 新兴世界如何应对这次大风暴将对世界经济和政治将产生长远影响
- 2. Earlier the tempest killed 29 people in the dominican republic and haiti .
- 早些时候,暴风雨在多米尼加共和国和海地致29人死亡。
- 3. The himalaya controversy followed another tempest -- the disclosure of e-mails that suggested that leading global warming scientists in the u.k. and the u.s. had conspired to hide a decline in global temperatures .
- 这个喜马拉雅的辩论是紧随着另一个风暴发生的,在那次事件中,一些邮件被泄露踹,说明英国和美国的顶尖全球变暖科学家有预谋地隐瞒了全球气温下降。
- 4. And while bloomberg 's office was clearly determined to corral this information tempest and did so , in my view , with some success it faced a tough challenge .
- 此外,尽管布隆伯格办公室显然下定决心抑制信息风暴在我看来,它确实也是这么做的,而且取得了一定的成功但它仍面临一个严峻的挑战。
- 5. The controversy over the aig payouts is the latest manifestation of a political tempest that the white house has struggled to manage .
- 围绕aig薪资问题的争议是令白宫难以掌控的最新一轮政治风暴。