英语词汇dust devil的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

dust devil. A dust devil is a small whirlwind common in dry regions and made visible by the dust it picks up from the ground. The term originated in the American West in about 1890. F. M. Parker described desert dust devils in his novel Skinner (1981): “The strong wind blew out of the northwest, sweeping the hotter air of the desert toward the mountain. Heated unevenly by the baking sunlight on the white earth of the bottom of the long-gone lake, the wind in places lost its smooth southeast flow and began to eddy and swirl. The swirls grew and pirouetted like invisible dancers and then, as their strength grew, birthed giant dust devils that dizzily spun white dust around and upward in vortices of counter clockwise-whirling turbulent pools of air four to five hundred feet deep. The ghostly columns, like giant dancing worms, wiggled and zig-zagged along to the southwest with the wind.”

词汇	dust devil
词源	dust devil. A dust devil is a small whirlwind common in dry regions and made visible by the dust it picks up from the ground. The term originated in the American West in about 1890. F. M. Parker described desert dust devils in his novel Skinner (1981): “The strong wind blew out of the northwest, sweeping the hotter air of the desert toward the mountain. Heated unevenly by the baking sunlight on the white earth of the bottom of the long-gone lake, the wind in places lost its smooth southeast flow and began to eddy and swirl. The swirls grew and pirouetted like invisible dancers and then, as their strength grew, birthed giant dust devils that dizzily spun white dust around and upward in vortices of counter clockwise-whirling turbulent pools of air four to five hundred feet deep. The ghostly columns, like giant dancing worms, wiggled and zig-zagged along to the southwest with the wind.”
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