• n. 颶風(fēng)，暴風(fēng)

來自西班牙語huracan,最終來自西印度群島土著語Juracan,雷神，當(dāng)他發(fā)怒的時(shí)候，會(huì)興起狂風(fēng)暴雨，即颶風(fēng)。

hurricane

hurricane: [16] European voyagers first encountered the swirling winds of the hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean, and they borrowed a local word to name it – Carib huracan. This found its way into English via Spanish. (An early alternative form was furacano, which came from a Carib variant furacan.)

hurricane (n.)

1550s, a partially deformed adoptation from Spanish huracan (Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo y Valdés, "Historia General y Natural de las Indias," 1547-9), furacan (in the works of Pedro Mártir De Anghiera, chaplain to the court of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella and historian of Spanish explorations), from an Arawakan (W. Indies) word. In Portuguese, it became furac?o. For confusion of initial -f- and -h- in Spanish, see hacienda. The word is first in English in Richard Eden's "Decades of the New World":

These tempestes of the ayer (which the Grecians caule Tiphones ...) they caule furacanes.

OED records 39 different spellings, mostly from the late 16c., including forcane, herrycano, harrycain, hurlecane. Modern form became frequent from 1650, established after 1688. Shakespeare uses hurricano ("King Lear," "Troilus and Cressida"), but in reference to waterspouts.

1. The agency was heavily criticised for its tardy response to the hurricane.

該機(jī)構(gòu)因?qū)︼Z風(fēng)反應(yīng)遲緩，受到嚴(yán)厲批評(píng)。

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2. Hurricane Andrew was last night heading into the Gulf of Mexico.

昨晚，颶風(fēng)“安德魯”進(jìn)入了墨西哥灣。

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3. The eye of the hurricane hit Florida just south of Miami.

颶風(fēng)的風(fēng)眼襲擊了佛羅里達(dá)州邁阿密正南部。

來自柯林斯例句

4. Hurricane Andrew has passed over the southern tip of Florida.

颶風(fēng)“安德魯”已越過佛羅里達(dá)州南端。

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5. In 1346 a hurricane whipped up the sea to destroy the town.

1346年的颶風(fēng)引起海嘯并摧毀了城鎮(zhèn)。

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