hurricane

英 ['h?r?k(?)n; -ke?n] 美['h?r?k?n]

CET6TEM4IELTSGRE中低頻詞常用詞匯考研TOEFL

復數:?hurricanes;

1. hurri- (hurry) + cane (棍子) => 急匆匆而來的一根棍子（形容颶風）。

hurricane 颶風

來自西班牙語huracan,最終來自西印度群島土著語Juracan,雷神，當他發怒的時候，會興起狂風暴雨，即颶風。

hurricane: hurricane: [16] European voyagers first encountered the swirling winds of the hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean, and they borrowed a local word to name it – Carib huracan. This found its way into English via Spanish. (An early alternative form was furacano, which came from a Carib variant furacan.)
hurricane (n.): 1550s, a partially deformed adoptation from Spanish huracan (Gonzalo Fernandez de Oviedo y Valdés, "Historia General y Natural de las Indias," 1547-9), furacan (in the works of Pedro Mártir De Anghiera, chaplain to the court of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella and historian of Spanish explorations), from an Arawakan (W. Indies) word. In Portuguese, it became furac?o. For confusion of initial -f- and -h- in Spanish, see hacienda. The word is first in English in Richard Eden's "Decades of the New World":
These tempestes of the ayer (which the Grecians caule Tiphones ...) they caule furacanes.
OED records 39 different spellings, mostly from the late 16c., including forcane, herrycano, harrycain, hurlecane. Modern form became frequent from 1650, established after 1688. Shakespeare uses hurricano ("King Lear," "Troilus and Cressida"), but in reference to waterspouts.

1. The agency was heavily criticised for its tardy response to the hurricane.: 該機構因對颶風反應遲緩，受到嚴厲批評。

2. Hurricane Andrew was last night heading into the Gulf of Mexico.: 昨晚，颶風“安德魯”進入了墨西哥灣。

3. The eye of the hurricane hit Florida just south of Miami.: 颶風的風眼襲擊了佛羅里達州邁阿密正南部。

4. Hurricane Andrew has passed over the southern tip of Florida.: 颶風“安德魯”已越過佛羅里達州南端。

5. In 1346 a hurricane whipped up the sea to destroy the town.: 1346年的颶風引起海嘯并摧毀了城鎮。