typhoon
typhoon 英 [taɪˈfu:n] 美 [taɪˈfun]
n. 台风
名词复数:typhoons
- What a hurricane is to the United States, a typhoon is to South Pacific and Asian nations. It's a giant, rotating storm that brings awesome wind, rain, and destruction.
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- n. 台风
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1. The typhoon left chaos behind it.
台风后一片混乱。
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2. The football match have to delay for the typhoon storm.
由于台风风暴，这场足球赛延期
- typhoon (n.) Tiphon "violent storm, whirlwind, tornado," 1550s, from Greek typhon "whirlwind," personified as a giant, father of the winds, perhaps from typhein "to smoke" (see typhus), but according to Watkins from PIE *dheub- "deep, hollow," via notion of "monster from the depths." The meaning "cyclone, violent hurricane of India or the China Seas" is first recorded 1588 in Thomas Hickock's translation of an account in Italian of a voyage to the East Indies by Caesar Frederick, a merchant of Venice:
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