cyclone
cyclone 英 [ˈsaɪkləʊn] 美 [ˈsaɪkloʊn]
n. 旋风；[气象] 气旋；飓风
名词复数:cyclones
- A cyclone is another word for "tornado" or other types of violent, spinning storms. It was a cyclone that uprooted Dorothy in "The Wizard of Oz," and her little dog Toto too.
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- n. 旋风；[气象] 气旋；飓风
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1. cyclone prediction combines predictions of ocean and land weather systems.
飓风预测联合了大洋和陆地的气象预报系统。
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2. Scientists also need to improve how they predict cyclone frequency and intensity over long time scales.
科学家们还需要对长时间预测飓风频率以及强度的方法做出改进。
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3. But we fear that another depression may be growing within, or between, the great bulk of the anti-cyclone that should be dominating our patch of sea at this time of year.
但是我们担心新的低气压又在内部或外部生成，每年的这个季节，在我们所在的海面上应该由反气旋的天气系统所控制。
- cyclone (n.) 1848, coined by British East India Company official Henry Piddington to describe the devastating storm of December 1789 in Coringa, India; irregularly formed from a Latinized form of Greek kyklon "moving in a circle, whirling around," present participle of kykloun "move in a circle, whirl," from kyklos "circle" (from PIE root *kwel- (1) "revolve, move round"). Applied to tornadoes from 1856.
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