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gale

/geyl/US // geɪl //UK // (ɡeɪl) //

大风,烈风,狂风,大风吹

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a very strong wind.
    • : Meteorology. a wind of 32–63 miles per hour.
    • : a noisy outburst: a gale of laughter filled the room.
    • : Archaic. a gentle breeze.

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Examples

  • He and Gale allegedly earned up to $23 million that they sought to conceal from authorities.

  • That grants Arctic weather, along with gales spinning off the Great Lakes, unimpeded access to the West Virginia highlands.

  • Specifically, the party failed to submit affidavits in person signed by Scroggin and Gale, according to the court.

  • It struck me from behind and carried me willy-nilly and with great force like a leaf in a gale.

  • Movie Gale fails to conjure emotions more complicated than “oooh, what pretty eyes he has.”

  • Unfortunately, Peeta Mellark and Gale Hawthorne are not among them.

  • Comedian Paul Gale has an answer as to why: they do it on purpose.

  • We scrambled for the prime spots… bottom bunks on the wall, just close enough to the gale-forced air-conditioning ducts.

  • One of the scenes was when she first gets called to go into The Hunger Games and has to say goodbye to her mother and Gale.

  • The gale still lasted, and the steamer was in momentary danger of becoming a complete wreck.

  • At a quarter before seven o'clock we hauled to the wind for the night with a fresh gale from the southward.

  • Loud and clear were both the signals, but four and a half miles of distance and a fresh gale neutralised their influence.

  • It is not an easy matter to sit up in a gale of wind, with freezing spray, and sometimes green seas, sweeping over one!

  • A violent gale of wind from the south-west; the only thing like a hard gale since we left England.