tempestuous
tempestuous 英 [temˈpestʃuəs] 美 [tɛmˈpɛstʃuəs]
adj. 有暴风雨的；暴乱的；剧烈的
- A tempest is a storm, so you can use the adjective tempestuous to describe anything stormy or volatile — from a tempestuous hurricane to a tempestuous romance.
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- adj. 有暴风雨的；暴乱的；剧烈的
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1. Month after month, images of protests, the hostage crisis, and other tempestuous events came pouring out of my homeland.
月复一月，抗议情景频现，人质危机和另外一些暴乱事件蜂拥出现在我的祖国。
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2. Late in July， the tempestuous Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr traveled to Damascus from Iran， where he's been living in exile for the past three years.
在七月下旬，暴乱的伊拉克什叶派教士萨德尔从伊朗前往大马士革（译注：叙利亚首都），过去的三年里他一直在伊朗流亡。
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3. Our restricted social life, our narrower field of activity, was hedged in with such monotonous uniformity that tempestuous feelings found no entrance;--all was as calm and quiet as could be.
我们拘束的社会生活，我们狭窄的活动领地，是被单调划一的树篱围起来的，使得暴风雨般的情感找不到入口；---一切都是尽可能地安宁寂静。
- tempestuous (adj.) late 14c., from Late Latin tempestuosus "stormy, turbulent," from Latin tempestas, tempestus "storm, commotion; weather, season; occasion, time," related to tempus "time, season" (see temporal). For sense development, see tempest. The figurative sense is older in English; literal sense is from c. 1500. Related: Tempestuously; tempestuousness.
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