| 词汇 | cyclone |
| 词源 | cyclone. In December 1789 great storm waves claimed 20,000 lives in Coringa, India. Writing about the disaster 49 years later, British East India company official Henry Piddington coined the word cyclone for such a storm. Piddington thought he was using the Greek word for “the coil of a snake” in his coinage, “this expressing sufficiently the tendency to circular motion in these meteors,” but he actually used the Greek for “circle,” or “moving in a wide, whirling manner.” |
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