| 词汇 | sandstorm |
| 词源 | sandstorm. A phenomenon of the southwestern desert. Wrote J. Frank Dobie in Coronado’s Children (1930): “A man caught in a sandstorm cannot see his hand . . . The yarn goes that a cowboy awoke one morning to find his horse standing on top of a mesquite tree instead of under it where he had staked him.” |
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