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tempest

/tem-pist/US // ˈtɛm pɪst //UK // (ˈtɛmpɪst) //

暴风雨,暴风雪,暴风骤雨,暴雨

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a violent windstorm, especially one with rain, hail, or snow.
    • : a violent commotion, disturbance, or tumult.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to affect by or as by a tempest; disturb violently.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Scientists can more granularly study homegrown tempests with storm-chasing aircraft and Earth-orbiting satellites.

  • Her work points at a sort of “cloud greenhouse effect” in which the infrared radiation reflected as the sun warms the Earth gets trapped under nascent storms, which makes stronger tempests build more quickly.

  • It includes old-school observations by unlucky souls who directly observed the tempests as well as remote sensing data from the modern satellite era.

  • Perhaps it wasn’t pairs of electrons that were forming, but tempests of electrons known as skyrmions.

  • Now that the 2021 filing season has opened, people should be prepared for a tempest of tax issues, Collins said.

  • Much of the nation has been caught up in a tempest that resembled one of the dinner-table scenes in August: Osage County.

  • Tempest, hurricane, tidal wave, tsunami, earthquake, or Big Bang?

  • The first grey pencillings of dawn would raise a tempest which would shake two hemispheres.

  • Of course, this particular fooforaw may be a tempest in a teapot: OPM may rule that they can offer subsidies to staffers.

  • But for now at least, most seem to have weathered the initial tempest without incurring too much damage.

  • In truth, M. de Biancourt's goodness and prudence seemed much shaken by this tempest of human passions.

  • What might be of a disturbing nature in the old farmhouse could not, she thought, be as fearsome as the approaching tempest.

  • And Isabel dropped her head into her arms and burst into a wild tempest of tears, like a child that has had its first whipping.

  • The Republic had proved an utter failure, and France was but a tempest-tossed ocean of anarchy.

  • I round the threshold wandering here,Vainly the tempest and the rain invoke,That they may keep my lady prisoner.