Cyclone
['saɪkləʊn] or ['saɪklon]
解释:
(noun.) a violent rotating windstorm.
(noun.) (meteorology) rapid inward circulation of air masses about a low pressure center; circling counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern.
整理:莱克格斯--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A violent storm, often of vast extent, characterized by high winds rotating about a calm center of low atmospheric pressure. This center moves onward, often with a velocity of twenty or thirty miles an hour.
手打:劳里
解释:
n. a circular or rotatory storm.—adj. Cyclon′ic.
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例句:
- It is as if the storm-clouds within are moving like a whirling cyclone. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- An anti-cyclone is a storm of opposite character, the general tendency of the winds in it being away from the center, while it also shifts within comparatively small limits. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- What are Cyclones? 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- Cyclones are preceded by a singular calm and a great fall of the barometer. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
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