Typhoon



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解释

GRE 红宝书

• n. 台风
• ［英］ n. 台风 ( tropical hurricane or cyclone)

Webster Collegiate

noun

• Etymology: alteration (influenced by Chinese — Guangdong — daaih-fùng, from daaih big + fùng wind) of earlier touffon, from Arabic ?ūfān hurricane, from Greek typhōn violent storm
• Date: 1771
• 1. a hurricane occurring especially in the region of the Philippines or the China sea
• 2. whirlwind 2a <a typhoon of activity>

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