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单词 trade wind
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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024
trade wind /ˈtreɪd ˌwɪnd/USA pronunciation  n. [countable]
  1. MeteorologyOften, trade winds. [plural] a nearly constant easterly wind that appears in most of the tropics and subtropics throughout the world.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024
trade wind′  (wind),USA pronunciation 
  1. Also trade winds′. Also called trades. any of the nearly constant easterly winds that dominate most of the tropics and subtropics throughout the world, blowing mainly from the northeast in the Northern Hemisphere, and from the southeast in the Southern Hemisphere.
  2. any wind that blows in one regular course, or continually in the same direction.
  • 1625–35

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
trade wind /wɪnd/ n
  1. a wind blowing obliquely towards the equator either from the northeast in the N hemisphere or the southeast in the S hemisphere, approximately between latitudes 30° N and S, forming part of the planetary wind system
Etymology: 17th Century: from to blow trade to blow steadily in one direction, from trade in the obsolete sense: a track
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