英语词典 · 单词释义
tempest
英 ['tempɪst] 美 ['tɛmpɪst]
这里集中整理“tempest”的音标、翻译、词源、例句和近反义词，方便快速确认词义并顺手做词汇积累。
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词义详解
翻译 · 词源 · 例句- n. 暴风雨；骚动；动乱
- vt. 使狂怒；扰乱，使激动
- vi. 小题大作；起大风暴
- n. (Tempest)人名；(英)坦皮斯特
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词源 · 例句 · 用法词态变化
复数: tempests;
中文词源
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.
英文词源
- 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).
双语例句
- 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。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. The takeover provoked a tempest of criticism.
- 这次收购引发了潮水般的批评。
来自柯林斯例句
- 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.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 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.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 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.
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
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