| 单词 | cloud-burst |
| 释义 | > as lemmascloud-burst cloud-burst n. [German Wolkenbruch] originally U.S. a violent storm of rain, a ‘waterspout’. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > rain > [noun] > a or the fall of rain > downpour > sudden rashOE waterspout1586 downfall1603 plumpa1688 spate1727 cloud-burst1872 a1817 T. Dwight Trav. New-Eng. & N.-Y. (1822) III. 249 This deluge, which they call the bursting of a cloud, took place in Oct. 1784.] 1872 Amer. Naturalist 6 71 In the mountains there are ‘cloud bursts’, when the rains fall in a cataract, and filling the gulches sweep every thing before them. 1881 Chicago Times 11 June The village of Seven Star Springs..was nearly annihilated last night by a water-spout or a cloud-burst. 1888 Sc. Leader 21 July Twenty persons were killed by a terrible Cloud-burst in Virginia yesterday. 1891 G. F. X. Griffith tr. C. Fouard Christ I. vi. 308 Caught in one of these furious cloud-bursts, the little vessels were scattered far and wide. 1899 Westm. Gaz. 27 Mar. 5/2 A cloud-burst broke over Sidi-Naour, in Tunis, yesterday. 1904 Scott. Hist. Rev. Oct. 89 The cloudburst and flood of a dozen years ago. 1911 J. Muir My First Summer in Sierra 63 Heavy thunder-showers, called ‘cloud-bursts’. < as lemmas |
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