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tornado
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🇺🇸 /tɔɹnˈeɪdˌoʊ/
tornado指接触地面的猛烈旋转漏斗状风暴;作动词时,表示像这种风暴一样猛烈席卷或迅速扫过。
💡 记忆钩子
把它想成一根贴着地面旋转前进的风柱:名词是这场风暴本身,动词则把这种猛烈、横扫而过的动作借来描述人或事物。
📝 学习建议
- 先掌握名词“龙卷风”这一核心义,再学习动词的比喻用法。
- 不要把tornado泛泛理解成所有强风或飓风;它特指旋转的漏斗状风暴,并且接触了地面。
📖 中文释义
noun
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core 龙卷风📖 一种猛烈旋转、呈漏斗状并且接触地面的风暴。它会沿着地面移动,因此核心画面不是普通的大风,而是一根旋转前进的风柱。💡 常用“a tornado hits/strikes + 地点”或“a tornado touches down”表示龙卷风袭击某地或接触地面。它是可数名词,单数前通常要有a或其他限定词,复数为tornadoes。不要用它泛指暴风雨,也不要与hurricane混为一谈。A tornado touched down near the town last night.昨晚一场龙卷风在城镇附近接触了地面。The tornado destroyed several houses in minutes.这场龙卷风几分钟内就摧毁了几栋房屋。
tornadoes
plural
tornados
plural
verb
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rare 猛烈席卷📖 把龙卷风横扫而过的画面借来,表示某人或某事物以猛烈、快速、近乎失控的方式扫过一处或一连串对象。💡 常见结构是“tornado through + 名词”,后面接地点、物品或一连串对象。它主要是比喻性的非正式用法,不能自然地替代普通的“快速经过”;使用时要保留“猛烈横扫”的感觉。ambitransitive figuratively
tornados
present,singular,third-person
tornadoing
participle,present
tornadoed
participle,past
tornadoed
past
📘 英文释义 (WordNet)
共 2 组
a purified and potent form of cocaine that is smoked rather than snorted; highly addictive
同义词集:
crack
crack cocaine
tornado
上位: cocain, cocaine
a localized and violently destructive windstorm occurring over land characterized by a funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground
同义词集:
tornado
twister
上位: cyclone
🌳 词源
源自西班牙语中表示“雷暴”的词,词形后来又受表示“转动”的词影响发生了音位转换;其更早词源与“雷鸣”有关。
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”).
🔄 变式
tornadoed
past
tornadoes
plural
tornadoing
present
tornados
plural
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