hurricane
hurricane 英 [ˈhʌrɪkən] 美 [ˈhɜrəkən]
n. 飓风，暴风
名词复数:hurricanes
- A hurricane is a severe tropical storm with high winds and heavy rain. When a hurricane comes through your town, you should board up the windows and stay inside.
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- n. 飓风，暴风
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1. Many buildings were destroyed by a hurricane.
许多房屋被飓风摧毁。
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2. Many coastal towns were desolated by the hurricane.
许多沿海城镇遭到飓风袭击而荒芜。
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3. Hurricane Betty is now approaching .
飓风贝蒂正在逼近。
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4. hurricane-force winds
飓风级大风
- hurricane (n.) sea-storm of severest intensity, 1550s, a partially deformed adoption of Spanish huracan (Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo y Valdés, "Historia General y Natural de las Indias," 1547-9), furacan (in the works of Pedro Mártir De Anghiera, chaplain to the court of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella and historian of Spanish explorations), from an Arawakan (West Indies) word. In Portuguese, it became furacão. For confusion of initial -f- and -h- in Spanish, see hacienda. The word is first in English in Richard Eden's "Decades of the New World":
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