| 单词 | perfect storm |
| 释义 | perfect stormnounMeteorology. a very intense and powerful storm arising from the convergence of an unusual set of weather patterns: A dying Hurricane Grace delivered the immeasurable tropical energy needed to create the perfect storm. a detrimental or calamitous situation or event arising from the powerful combined effect of a unique set of circumstances: a perfect storm battering corporate pension plans. Origin of perfect stormFirst recorded in 1935–40 in meteorological sense; in 1997 for current sense, from The Perfect Storm, a nonfiction book by Sebastian Junger, U.S. journalist and author (born 1962) Words nearby perfect stormperfect pitch, perfect progressive, perfect rhyme, perfect square, perfect stage, perfect storm, perfervid, perfidious, perfidy, perfin, perfing Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 British Dictionary definitions for perfect stormperfect storm nouna combination of events which are not individually dangerous, but occurring together produce a disastrous outcome Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |
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