tempest
tempest 英 [ˈtempɪst] 美 [ˈtɛmpɪst]
n. 暴风雨；骚动；动乱 vt. 使狂怒；扰乱，使激动 vi. 小题大作；起大风暴
名词复数:tempests
- Shakespeare's The Tempest begins with one –– a tempest, or a violent and windy storm.
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- n. 暴风雨；骚动；动乱
- vt. 使狂怒；扰乱，使激动
- vi. 小题大作；起大风暴
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1. If thou callest me that ill name, I shall tell him of thee; and he will chase thy ship with a tempest!
要是你叫我这么难听的名字，我就跟他告你的状，他就会用暴风雨追你的船！
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2. In 1609 a group of English settlers en route to Virginia were struck by a hurricane and washed ashore at Bermuda—an event that reportedly helped inspire Shakespeare’s tempest.
1609年，一队英国殖民者在前往弗吉尼亚州的途中遭到飓风袭击并在百慕大被冲上了岸——据说这件事是莎士比亚的名剧《暴风雨》的灵感来源之一。
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3. Once they found out about that she and her girlfriend were dating, the meetings suddenly turned to the topic of homosexuality -- specifically, that tempest was going to hell.
一旦他们发现她和她女朋友之间的关系，聚会话题立马转到同性恋问题上去了——尤其过分的是，他们说坦贝斯特会下地狱。
- tempest (n.) "violent storm," late 13c., from Old French tempeste "storm; commotion, battle; epidemic, plague" (11c.), from Vulgar Latin *tempesta, from Latin tempestas "a storm, commotion; weather, season; occasion, time," related to tempus "time, season" (see temporal).
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