单词 | leveche |
释义 | levechen. A hot, dry, more or less southerly wind of south-eastern Spain, the local counterpart of the sirocco. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [noun] > hot or warm wind > in Mediterranean Europe and North Africa sirocco1617 sirocco1700 siroc1775 gibli1821 leveche1887 1887 Encycl. Brit. XXII. 296/2 The eastern part of this [southern] zone is the part of Spain which is liable to be visited from time to time by the scorching and blasting leveche, the name given in Spain to the sirocco. 1927 W. G. Kendrew Climates of Continents (ed. 2) xxxi. 240 The Sirocco..has naturally received local names, in south-east Spain levèche, in Algeria sirocco, in Tunis chili, in Tripoli gibli, [etc.]. 1962 J. E. Van Riper Man's Physical World vii. 222/2 The Mediterranean area also is the home of a hot, searing, dust-laden wind off the Sahara, known in various localities as sirocco, khamsin, leveche, or samiel. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1887 |
随便看 |
|
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。