| 词汇 | hurricane |
| 词源 | hurricane. A hurricane, the word deriving from the Spanish huracan, was first a violent tropical cyclonic storm of the west- ern North Atlantic, but it eventually came to mean a violent storm in general. A hurricane is called a hurricane in the Carib- bean Sea, but a cyclone in the Indian Ocean, and a typhoon in the China Sea. |
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