tempest

英 ['tempɪst] 美['tɛmpɪst]

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tempest 暴风雨，暴风雪

来自拉丁语 tempestas,风暴，暴风雨，暴风雪，来自 tempus,时间，季节，词源同 temporal. 词义由一段时间引申为特殊的时间，恶劣天气，最后指暴风雨雪天气，即代表性的天气特征。词义演变比较 meteor,meteorology.

复数: tempests;

tempest: tempest: [13] Latin tempestās started off meaning nothing more alarming than ‘period of time’ (it was a derivative of tempus ‘time’, source of English temporary). Gradually, however, it progressed via ‘weather’ to ‘bad weather, storm’. Tempus moved in to take its place in the neutral sense ‘weather’, and provides the word for ‘weather’ in modern French (temps), Italian (tempo), Spanish (tiempo), and Romanian (timp). Other languages whose word for ‘weather’ comes from a term originally denoting ‘time’ include Russian (pogoda), Polish (czas), Czech (počasí), Latvian (laiks), and Breton (amzer).
=> temporary
tempest (n.): "violent storm," late 13c., from Old French tempeste "storm; commotion, battle; epidemic, plague" (11c.), from Vulgar Latin *tempesta, from Latin tempestas "a storm; weather, season, time, point in time, season, period," also "commotion, disturbance," related to tempus "time, season" (see temporal).

Sense evolution is from "period of time" to "period of weather," to "bad weather" to "storm." Words for "weather" originally were words for "time" in languages from Russia to Brittany. Figurative sense of "violent commotion" in English is recorded from early 14c. Tempest in a teapot attested from 1818; the image in other forms is older, such as storm in a creambowl (1670s).

1. I hadn't foreseen the tempest my request would cause.: 我没有料到我的请求会掀起这么大一场风波。

3. The sailors took in sail when the tempest was approaching.: 暴风雨来临之际,水手们将帐篷放下.

4. 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.

5. No tempest is capable of shattering his firm determination.: 任何惊涛骇浪都不能动摇他坚如磐石的决心.

1. a violent commotion or disturbance;: "the storms that had characterized their relationship had died away"; "it was only a tempest in a teapot"

The sailors took in sail when the tempest was approaching.: 暴风雨来临之际,水手们将帐篷放下.

No tempest is capable of shattering his firm determination.: 任何惊涛骇浪都不能动摇他坚如磐石的决心.

Torrential rain and a howling tempest cut a swathe of destruction across the country.: 狂风暴雨横扫全国，所到之处，一片狼藉。

Indeed they were at sea, and the ship and crew were in peril of tempest.: 实际上它们也确是在海上, 这只小船和它的船员确已面临风暴袭来的危险.

By and by the tempest spent itself and died without accomplishing its object.: 后来,暴风雨精疲力尽,未达目的即告休兵.

The furious tempest drove over and round us, flinging the boat this way and that.: 汹涌的波涛在我们的四周回漩, 把船掷来掷去.

They have to be insured against fire, flood, tempest and other perils.: 一定得保火险、水灾险、大风暴险以及其他的风险.

The protection methods of radiation emission and TEMPEST technology and its standards are discussed.: 讨论了抑制电磁泄漏辐射与传导发射的方法和TEMPEST技术的相关问题.

It was a marvelous night with a tempest to rouse the gods.: 真是个美妙的夜晚,暴风雨惊天动地.

So how can scientists investigate under such a tempest of changing circumstances?: 那么?科学家怎么研究这么像狂风般复杂的变化的细节?

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