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猛劲风车成形a
Hurricanes.
TheMighty Pinwheel Takes Shape.
英文汉译。
飓风。
猛劲风车成形a。
09/2018。
Theword “hurricane,” so vivid and forceful in English, originated in old Caribbeancivilizations. A tribe of island people known as the Taino worshipped a stormgod named Harakan. That was adapted by the Spanish as “huracan”; in English, itturned up as “furacan,” then “hurricane.”
“hurricane”，在英文里那么地强烈的一个字，源出于古代加勒比文明。一个叫做Taino，居住在岛屿上的族群，崇拜一尊称为Harakan的暴风雨神。那个称呼被西班牙人采纳为“huracan”。在英文里，它变成“furacan”，在那之后又再改为“hurricane”。
It’snot surprising that the people who lived where hurricanes are most ferocious--- and the 16th century European sailors who explored the coasts of theseregions --- would find words to describe these vicious, long-lasting storms.But ---
居住在飓风最为凶恶的地点的人们，和在十六世纪，探索那些地区的海岸的欧洲水手们，搜索字眼去描写这些邪恶，长久犹在的暴风雨，并不令人惊讶。可是飓风它们，其实是在第一次为它们命名的地点，几千英里之外发动的。
Hurricanesare members of a family of storms known as tropical cyclones. They are born inthe tropics, near the equator, and take the name “cyclones” from the Greek wordfor circle, wheel, or the coil of a snake. Almost all hurricanes that strikethe U.S. originate in the equatorial Atlantic Ocean and travel northwest-wardtoward the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico, and America’s southeastern coast.Other hurricanes start in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Mexico and movewestward out to sea. Sometimes a tropical cyclone will cross over land from theGulf of Mexico to the Pacific Ocean and receive a new name; that’s how TropicalStorm Earl became Hurricane Frank in 2004.
狂风Hurricanes是称为tropicalcyclones、热带旋风，暴风雨家族之一员。它们产生于热带地区，邻近赤道；从希腊文说圆圈，车轮或蛇卷成的圈子的字眼，取用“cyclones”那个字作为它的名称。轰击美国的飓风，几乎全都源出于大西洋的赤道地区，向西北趋走到加勒比海，墨西哥湾和美国的东南海岸。其他的飓风在墨西哥海岸之外的太平洋海域开始，向西移动走进海里。有些时候一场飓风会从墨西哥湾跨越陆地，走进太平洋，在那里取个新名称；公元2004年，Tropical Storm Earl就是那么样子改称为HurricaneFrank的。
Ahurricane in the western Pacific Ocean is called a typhoon. Tropical cyclonessouth of the equator, such as those in the Indian Ocean, are simply calledcyclones. The northern Pacific Ocean sees, on average, 44 tropical cyclones ayear. That’s the most in the world, and many of them, as typhoons, slam intoJapan, Korea, and China. The North Atlantic, which averages 10 cyclones (6 ofwhich become hurricanes), is a distant second.
飓风在西太平洋称为typhoon、台风。Tropicalcyclones、热带旋风在赤道以南，例如在印度洋，简单地称为cyclones、旋风。北太平洋平均每年见到44次的热带旋风。那是世界上为数最多的了，同时它们之中许多，作为台风，轰击日本，朝鲜半岛和中国。北大西洋，它每年的平均率是十次旋风（其中六次转型为龙卷风），是间隔一个大距离的第二名。
待续。。。
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