| 单词 | monsoon wind |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmonsoon wind C1. General attributive, as monsoon rains, monsoon season, monsoon wind, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > year > season > [noun] > with reference to weather conditions > rainy or hot season heat1390 rainy season1655 wet1733 monsoon season1976 1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. J. Albert de Mandelslo 245 in Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors Which put us in hope, we should soon have the Manson-wind [Fr. le vent de la manson]. 1767 W. J. Mickle Concubine i. lxvi. 38 Flying in the monsoon gale, By Æthiopias coast or Javas ile. 1804 A. Seward Mem. Dr. Darwin 186 The monsoon winds. 1860 R. F. Burton Lake Regions Central Afr. I. 102 The monsoon-rains..are heavy. 1884 Proc. Royal Soc. 37 3 Warning of the probability of a prolonged period of drought in the approaching monsoon season. 1939 E. D. Laborde tr. E. de Martonne Shorter Physical Geogr. (rev. ed.) ii. 51 The monsoon wind which blows from the sea tends to lower the temperature; it is damp and rain-bearing. 1976 Times 31 Aug. (Malaysia Suppl.) p. iv/4 Both farmers and fishermen are largely confined to their houses during the monsoon season. 1993 B. Cox Nek Chand in Coll. Poems 34 When they opened the concrete library in monsoon rains Indian hosts stood aghast: ‘Monsieur Corbusier the ceiling leaks.’ < as lemmas |
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