tornado

英 [tɔːˈneɪdəʊ]

美 [tɔːrˈneɪdoʊ]

n.  龙卷风; 旋风

复数：tornados　

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牛津词典

noun

• 龙卷风；旋风
  a violent storm with very strong winds which move in a circle. There is often also a long cloud which is narrower at the bottom than the top.

柯林斯词典

• 龙卷风；大旋风
  Atornadois a violent wind storm consisting of a tall column of air which spins round very fast and causes a lot of damage.

英英释义

noun

• a purified and potent form of cocaine that is smoked rather than snorted
  Synonym:crackcrack cocaine
• a localized and violently destructive windstorm occurring over land characterized by a funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground
  Synonym:twister

双语例句

• The sirens sounded, warning of a tornado.
  警报响了起来，警告飓风要来了。
• And it's not terribly unusual to have multiple vortices within a tornado.
  在一次飓风中有多个涡系并不是非常罕见的。
• Colorado is part of that, and it's where this tornado showed up on Monday.
  科罗拉多州就是其中的一部分，周一的龙卷风就在这里出现。
• A tornado hit on Tuesday night.
  星期二晚上发生了一次龙卷风。
• Get within the basement, the tornado is coming. A tornado whirled into town.
  进地下室，龙卷风要来了。龙卷风刮进了城里。
• It's, it's the killer tornado, an absolutely killer tornado that's now crossing.
  这就是杀手龙卷风，一个绝对的杀手龙卷风正在移动。
• The tornado destroyed two houses near tulsa.
  这场龙卷风摧毁了靠近塔尔萨的两栋房屋。
• Wasn't this crushed by a runaway tornado?
  它不是被失控的龙卷风碾碎了吗？
• A tornado is a rotating column of air from a thunderstorm to the ground.
  龙卷风是指一个从空气中的雷暴延伸到地面而生成的旋转气柱。
• When this happens, the rotating air forms a tornado.
  当这种情况发生时，旋转的气流形成了龙卷风。