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cyclone

noun
🔊/ˈsaɪkləʊn/
🔊/ˈsaɪkləʊn/
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  1. a violent tropical storm in which strong winds move in a circle气旋；旋风
    • The cyclone struck the village late last night.昨晚深夜，旋风袭击了这个村庄。
    compare hurricane, typhoon
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    • Cyclone Tracy hit Darwin on Christmas Eve, 1974.1974 年平安夜，热带气旋特雷西袭击了达尔文。
    • In 1974 Darwin was devastated by Cyclone Tracy.1974年达尔文被热带气旋特蕾西夷为平地。
    • The islands have been devastated by cyclones in recent months.近几个月的旋风摧毁了这些岛屿。
    • trees damaged in the cyclone遭到旋风破坏的树木
    • Cyclones are anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere.北半球的旋风逆时针旋转。
    • The island was hit by a cyclone which caused considerable damage.这座岛遭受了旋风的袭击，损失相当严重。
    Topics Weatherc1, The environmentc1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • tropical
    cyclone + verb
    • hit something
    • destroy something
    • devastate something
    • …
    preposition
    • in a/​the cyclone
    phrases
    • the eye of the cyclone
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  2. (specialist) a weather condition in which the pressure of the air becomes lower, often causing wind and rain synonym depression (5)
    • As cyclones move inland, they become an important source of rain.随着旋风向内陆移动，它们成为重要的降雨来源。
    compare anticyclone
    3. Word Originmid 19th cent.: probably from Greek kuklōma ‘wheel, coil of a snake’, from kuklos ‘circle’. The change of spelling from -m to -n is unexplained.