| 单词 |
tempest |
| 释义 |
Related topics: Meteorologytem·pest /ˈtempɪst/ noun [countable] 1. literaryHEM a violent storm 暴风雨;暴风雪2 a tempest in a teapot American English an unimportant matter that someone has become upset about 大惊小怪,小题大做 Haley dismissed the lawsuit as a tempest in a teapot. 黑利认为这桩官司是小题大做。Examples from the Corpustempest• Everything swept so clean By tempest, wind and rain!• Dunning and its January tempests seemed a world away.• The screaming tempest whipped into the house, hurling furniture twenty feet into the air.• They choked on the dirt gathered by the tempest, wiping it from their eyes as they ran.• The ancients staged mock battles to parallel the tempests in nature and reduce their fear of gods who warred across the sky.• The tempest may not be entirely over.nThe TempestTempest, The na play by William shakespeare about prospero, the Duke of Milan, who has been forced by his brother to live alone on a distant island with his daughter miranda. The other main characters are Prospero's magical helper, Ariel, and his slavecaliban.Origin tempest (1200-1300) Old French tempeste, from Latin tempestas “season, weather, storm”, from tempus “time”tem·pest nounTempest, TheLDOCE OnlineChineseSyllable a storm Corpus violent |
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