tornado
tornado 英 [tɔ:ˈneɪdəʊ] 美 [tɔrˈneɪdoʊ]
n. [气象] 龙卷风；旋风；暴风；大雷雨
名词复数:tornados
- A tornado is a violent windstorm in the shape of a funnel cloud that reaches to the ground. If a tornado is coming, you’ll want to take cover.
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- n. [气象] 龙卷风；旋风；暴风；大雷雨
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1. The tornado rubbished the whole village.
龙卷风毁掉了整个村庄。
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2. The tornado disrupted broadcasting along the entire coast.
龙卷风使整个沿海的广播都中断了。
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3. The tornado is coming, so we had better batten down the hatches here and get to the cellar.
龙卷风即将来临，因此我们最好把这里的舱口封上，到地下室去。
- tornado (n.) 1550s, ternado, navigator's word for violent windy thunderstorm in the tropical Atlantic, probably a mangled borrowing from Spanish tronada "thunderstorm," from tronar "to thunder," from Latin tonare "to thunder" (see thunder (n.)). Also in 17c. spelled tornatho, tornathe, turnado; modern spelling by 1620s. Metathesis of -o- and -r- in modern spelling influenced by Spanish tornar "to twist, turn," from Latin tornare "to turn." Meaning "extremely violent whirlwind" is first found 1620s; specifically "destructive rotary funnel cloud" (especially in the U.S. Midwest) from 1849. Related: Tornadic.
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