| 单词 | anti-trade wind |
| 释义 | > as lemmasanti-trade wind attrib. in anti-trade wind (also ellipt. anti-trade, -s): a wind that blows steadily in the opposite direction to the trade-wind, that is, in the northern hemisphere from S.W., and in southern hemisphere from N.W. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [noun] > global system > specific winds of trade wind1652 westerly1845 variable1846 anti-trade wind1853 brave west winds1883 counter-trade1917 roaring forties1953 1853 J. F. W. Herschel Pop. Lect. Sci. (1873) iv. §19. 157 The great and permanent system of winds known as the ‘trades’ and ‘anti-trades.’ 1867 E. B. Denison Astron. without Math. 40 This secondary or anti-trade wind prevails from about 30° to 60° latitude at sea. 1875 J. Croll Climate & Time ii. 28 The south-west wind to which we owe so much of our warmth in this country, is the continuation of the anti-trade. < as lemmas |
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