tornado

B1 CET-6 大学 FREQ #10171 ★☆☆☆☆

n. 旋风, 龙卷风, 大雷雨

发音

UK /tɔː(ɹ)ˈneɪ.dəʊ/
US /tɔɹˈneɪ.doʊ/

词形变化

tornadoes 复数 tornadoes tornados tornados 复数 tornadoed tornadoing tornados 三单 tornadoing 现在分词 tornadoed 过去式 tornadoed 过去分词

别名

tornade tornadoe tornato

教材释义与例句

名词

龙卷风；旋风；暴风；大雷雨

释义与例句

n. B1
  1. 1.

    A violent wind in the form of a mobile, rapidly rotating, funnel cloud that has contacted the ground.

    龙卷风

    气象
v.
  1. 1.

    To sweep through something violently.

    及物/不及物 比喻

词汇关系

名词

同义词 3

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上位词 3

cocaine cyclone cocain

下位词 2

supertwister waterspout

相关短语

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词源

From earlier English ternado, attested since the 1550s as a nautical term for a windy thunderstorm. From Spanish tronada (“thunderstorm”), from tronar (“to thunder”), from Latin tonō (“to thunder”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tenh₂- (“to thunder”). The o and r were reversed in English (metathesis) under influence of Spanish tornar (“to twist, to turn”), from Latin tornō (“to turn”).

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