音标:[ˈtempɪsts] ;
n. 暴风雨( tempest的复数形式 ); 似风暴般的事物; 骚动; 风波
n. a violent commotion or disturbance
n. (literary) a violent wind

tempest的用法和样例:

例句

用作名词(n.)
  1. The tempest drove the ship on the rocks.暴风雨使船触了礁。
  2. The tempest seems to be calming down.暴风雨似乎正在平息下来。
  3. The tempest had been as brief as terrific.这一场暴风雨持续的时间虽然不长,但是却十分凶猛。
  4. The political tempest finally subsided.这场政治风暴终于平息了。
  5. The scandal caused tempests in the newspaper.那件丑闻在报纸上引起阵阵风波。
  6. He won a tempest of applause when he ended his speech.演讲结束时,他博得暴风雨般的掌声。

词汇搭配

  • a tempest in a teapot小题大作, 大惊小怪...
  • a storm in a teacup <主英>茶杯里掀起...
  • storm暴风雨
  • tempest in a teapot小事引起的轩然大波(...
  • tempest in a bucket小事引起的轩然大波(...
  • tempest in a barrel小事引起的轩然大波(...
  • tempest in a tea-pot"茶壶中的风波",小...

经典引文

  • A Station safe for Ships, when Tempests roar.

    出自:Dryden
  • The whole air filled..with a tempest of sand driving in your face like sleet.

    出自:A. P. Stanley
【近义词】

SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Going to talk now to an author of fantasy novels who has been beloved for so long that both our books editor and producer - 12 years of age apart - kept her books in their school lockers. Young adult novelist Tamora Pierce is one o

发表于:2019-01-16 / 阅读(187) / 评论(0) 分类 2018年NPR美国国家公共电台2月
学英语单词
absorbent aggregate
adrenalinogen
Akosombo Dam
alfve'n wave
area register
artisanry
ATDLS
behavior of buyers
bensch
biocides
board-mounted connector
borderline group leprosy
carbolic acid Ointment
catalytic isomerisation
checkpoint data set
chronic gonorrhea
collapsibility test of loess
compensating axle suspension
comprehensive data base
Concas
Conringia planisiliqua
copper-bismuth-strontium contact
cutdowns
degaglia
digital sequence
discrete-valued function
distinguished for
drive-shaft
electrical dehydrator
end sensing
endocrine system
financial measures
firm friends
forcibles
freetrader
genus spartiums
gerhard gerhardss
Glossostigma
God does not play dice with the universe
grease composition
green manure crop
gurglingly
haematidrosis
hank panky
hard mica
hashalom
high-frequency line and patching bay
hissing breathing
holographic storage
interfund settlements
IRER
is the game worth the candle?
javelin
jazz-mugham
jump coupling
Likudnik
little people
Lunderskov
market rate of discount
Mesopotamia
middell
mixture spread
miyabe's line
mnlaminated cortex
MSc
multiple hydraulic pump
natural preserve
neighboring country
non-real-time processing
nonconservation
Norwegianizes
obe.
one-to-one transformation
Open Shortest Path First protocol
Ozohine
pedestal grinder
photoelectric electron-multiplier tube
pilot's automatic telephone weather answering service
planktophile
plushophile
quetenite (botryogen)
recessive coverage
regulating link
Romanhood
roylance
sarong cathode
scum blow off cock
search algorithm
significant weather (report)
Simavlι
slip friction clutches
speed gear box
substantivized
suit with
superministries
synthonic
system failure recovery
termites
turover
wire anchor
zornia diphylla pers.