喜樂美語
  1. 1nB2/tɔːrˈneɪdoʊ/ · /tɔːˈneɪdəʊ/龍捲風

    A very violent storm made of air that spins round extremely fast in a tall narrow shape, reaching from a cloud down to the ground, and damaging or destroying things as it moves.

    示範例句 · Example

    The radio gave a tornado warning, so Mei's family went down to the room under the stairs.

    逐字收音機發出了一個龍捲風警報，所以美的家人下去樓梯下面的那個房間。

    tornado 的畫面可以想成「一根從雲裡垂下來、貼著地面轉的空氣柱」——又細又高，轉得非常快，走過的地方只留下窄窄一條破壞的痕跡。跟 typhoon（颱風）比：颱風在海上生成，範圍很大、可以吹好幾天；tornado 多半在陸地上，範圍小很多，常常幾分鐘就結束。tornado 可數，前面要加 a，複數寫成 tornadoes（也可以寫 tornados）。

    常見搭配

    • a tornado warning

      龍捲風警報

      an official message telling people a tornado is coming and they should take shelter

      A tornado warning came through on everyone's phone at the same time.

    • a tornado hits somewhere

      龍捲風襲擊某地

      a tornado arrives at a place and damages it

      A tornado hit the small town early on Sunday morning.

    • a tornado touches down

      龍捲風觸地

      the spinning column reaches the ground, so it counts as a tornado

      The spinning cloud never touched down, so no damage was done.

    • tornado season

      龍捲風季

      the time of year when tornadoes happen most often in a place

      In the middle of the United States, tornado season starts in spring.

    • tornado damage

      龍捲風造成的損害

      the harm a tornado does to buildings, trees, and land

      Neighbours spent the weekend clearing up the tornado damage.

    • like a tornado

      像一陣龍捲風似的

      used to say that someone or something arrives fast, loudly, and leaves a mess

      Leo came through the front door like a tornado and dropped his bag in the middle of the hall.

core核心畫面

Picture a narrow column of spinning air hanging down from a storm cloud and touching the ground — thin compared to the sky it comes from, but turning so fast that it lifts roofs, cars and trees on the strip of land it crosses. The shape is the key: tall, narrow, spinning, joining cloud to earth.

可以想成一根從烏雲垂下來、一路接到地面的旋轉空氣柱：跟整片天空比起來它很細，但轉得極快，走過的那一條地帶上，屋頂、車子、樹都會被捲起來。這個字的畫面重點在「形狀」——又高又窄、不停打轉，把雲和地面連在一起。

容易混在一起的字在訂閱裡。容易混在一起的字需要訂閱帳號。

複數 tornadoes / tornados

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tornadonoun/tɔː(ɹ)ˈneɪ.dəʊ/

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    climatologymeteorologynatural-sciencesA violent wind in the form of a mobile, rapidly rotating, funnel cloud that has contacted the ground.

    • An extreme version of vorticity is a vortex. The vortex is a spinning, cyclonic mass of fluid, which can be observed in the rotation of water going down a drain, as well as in smoke rings, tornados and hurricanes.
    • Some of the same areas hit by tornadoes just a little over a week ago are expecting severe storms again Monday afternoon and evening. […] A multiday severe weather outbreak is possible Monday through Wednesday, increasing the already-above average tornado count even higher.

tornadoverb/tɔː(ɹ)ˈneɪ.dəʊ/

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    To sweep through something violently.

    • And so on Friday nights, James Torin tornadoed through six beers, a carton of cigarettes, a coffee table littered with lottery tickets, and unrequited dreams.
    • They come every night, those cavernous trains, tornadoing the frozen house, a madness feeling for the door.

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