tempest是什么意思_tempest怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

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).
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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).

词态变化

复数 tempests;

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.

a tempest in a teapot 小题大作, 大惊小怪...

a storm in a teacup <主英>茶杯里掀起...

storm 暴风雨

tempest in a teapot 小事引起的轩然大波(...

tempest in a bucket 小事引起的轩然大波(...

tempest in a barrel 小事引起的轩然大波(...

tempest in a tea-pot "茶壶中的风波",小...

political tempest 政治风暴

a tempest in a barrel n. 小题大作

come in a tempest 暴风雨般袭来,潮水般涌来

the hush before a tempest 暴风雨来临前夕的宁静

storm and tempest insurance 暴风雨保险

a tempest in a teapot 小题大作,大惊小怪,轩然大波

a tempest of applause 暴风雨般的掌声

stir up a tempest 引起骚动

through a tempest of shot and shell 穿过枪林弹雨

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