weather

A1 CET-4 Oxf 3000 初中 FREQ #1773 ★★★★☆

n. 天气, 气象, 处境 a. 迎风的 vt. 使受风吹雨打, 侵蚀, 使风化, 经受住 vi. 风化, 受侵蚀, 经受风雨

发音

UK /ˈwɛð.ə/
US /ˈwɛð.ɚ/

词形变化

weathers 复数 weathers weathered weathering weathers 三单 weathering 现在分词 weathered 过去式 weathered 过去分词

别名

veather vedder wether WPG wthr WX

教材释义与例句

名词

天气;气象;气候;处境

the temperature and other conditions such as sun, rain, and wind

动词

经受住;使风化;侵蚀;使受风吹雨打

if rock, wood, or someone's face is weathered by the wind, sun, rain etc, or if it weathers, it changes colour or shape over a period of time

动词

风化;受侵蚀;经受风雨

形容词

露天的;迎风的

释义与例句

n. A1 Oxf 3000
  1. 1.

    The short-term state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place, including the temperature, relative humidity, cloud cover, precipitation, wind, etc.

    天气

    气候

    天景

    天时

    天色

    可数 不可数

    What's the weather like today?

    We'll go for a walk when the weather's better.

    The garden party was called off due to bad weather.

    Here and there, the weather on the sea allowed two of their friends to hear and see, too.

  2. 2.

    Unpleasant or destructive atmospheric conditions, and their effects.

    可数 不可数

    Wooden garden furniture must be well oiled as it is continuously exposed to weather.

  3. 3.

    The direction from which the wind is blowing; used attributively to indicate the windward side.

    可数 不可数 航海 交通
  4. 4.

    A situation.

    可数 比喻 不可数
  5. 5.

    A storm; a tempest.

    可数 废旧 不可数
  6. 6.

    A light shower of rain.

    可数 废旧 不可数
v.
  1. 1.

    To expose to the weather, or show the effects of such exposure, or to withstand such effects.

  2. 2.

    To sustain the trying effect of; to bear up against and overcome; to endure; to resist.

    引申义

    April 18, 1850, Frederick William Robertson, An Address Delivered to the Members of the Working Man's Institute You will weather the difficulties yet.

  3. 3.

    To break down, of rocks and other materials, under the effects of exposure to rain, sunlight, temperature, and air.

  4. 4.

    To cause (rocks) to break down by crushing, grinding, and/or dissolving with acids.

  5. 5.

    To pass to windward in a vessel, especially to beat 'round.

    航海 交通

    to weather a cape to weather another ship

  6. 6.

    To endure or survive an event or action without undue damage.

    航海 交通

    Joshua weathered a collision with a freighter near South Africa.

  7. 7.

    To place (a hawk) unhooded in the open air.

    体育
  8. 8.

    To rain; to storm.

adj.
  1. 1.

    Facing towards the flow of a fluid, usually air.

    地质 航海 交通

    weather side, weather helm

词汇关系

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词源

From Middle English weder, wedir, from Old English weder, from Proto-West Germanic *wedr, from Proto-Germanic *wedrą, from Proto-Indo-European *wedʰrom (=*we-dʰrom), from *h₂weh₁- (“to blow”). Cognates Cognate with Scots wather (“weather”), Saterland Frisian Weeder (“weather”), Cimbrian bèttar (“weather”), Dutch weder, weer (“weather”), German Wetter (“weather”), Low German Weder (“weather”), Luxembourgish Wieder (“weather”), Yiddish וועטער (veter, “weather”), Danish vejr (“weather”), Faroese, Icelandic veður (“weather”), Norwegian Bokmål vær (“weather”), Norwegian Nynorsk veder, vêr (“weather”), Swedish väder (“weather”); also more distantly related to Russian вёдро (vjódro, “fair weather”) and perhaps Albanian vrëndë (“light rain”). Other cognates include Sanskrit निर्वाण (nirvāṇa, “blown or put out, extinguished”).

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