squalls

英 [skwɔːlz]

美 [skwɔːlz]

n.  飑(常指暴风雨或暴风雪中突起的狂风)
v.  大声啼哭; 号哭
squall的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 飑;突起的大风(常引起短暂暴雨或暴雪)
  Asquallis a sudden strong wind which often causes a brief, violent rain storm or snow storm.
  1. The boat was hit by a squall north of the island.
     船在岛的北边遇到了狂飑。
• VERB 嚎叫;大声啼哭
  If a person or animalsqualls, they make a loud unpleasant noise like the noise made by a crying baby.
  1. There was an infant squalling in the back of the church.
     有个婴儿在教堂后部大声啼哭。
  2. ...squalling guitars.
     刺耳的吉他声

双语例句

• Their French bank is solid and profitable and has managed to weather the financial squalls better than most.
  他们的法国银行家底殷实，有盈利能力，抵御金融海啸的表现也好过多数同行。
• If asset-market squalls do not merit a monetary response, worries about the wider impact of the housing slump on America's economy may yet tip the balance.
  如果资本市场的呼声没有得到货币政策的响应，对房屋市场衰退将更大范围地影响美国经济的担心就会站到上风。
• Hong Kong schools, financial markets, and businesses have shut as Typhoon Nesat brought howling winds, squalls of rain and rough seas to the territory.
  台风纳莎给香港带来了强风、暴雨和巨浪，其学校、金融市场和商业贸易都已关闭。
• But if these squalls continue, it is not just private-equity investors who will shiver.
  但如果这样的狂潮持续下去，会战栗的不仅仅是私募股权的投资者了。
• Errors and uncertainties multiply, cascading upward through a chain of turbulent features, from dust devils and squalls up to continent-size eddies that only satellites can see.
  误差和不确定性剧烈放大，它们通过一系列湍流状态，从小尘暴和暴风剧增到只有卫星才能观察到的大陆范围的气旋。
• Market squalls have tossed some of the bigger vessels in the euro-zone flotilla, includingItalyandSpain.
  市场的风暴却在欧元区的舰队里撼动了较大的船只，其中包括意大利和西班牙。
• As to the economic difficulties that seem likely to hit much of the world in the next 18 months, he reckons the company can weather the squalls better than many other businesses.
  至于可能在未来18个月冲击全球多数地区的经济困境，维泰利认为，该公司承受风暴的能力好于其它很多企业。
• When the peacock loudly bawls, soon we'll have both rain and squalls.
  孔雀高声叫，雨、雹就要到。
• Thunderstorms are sometimes preceded or accompanied by heavy rain and squalls.
  狂风大雨有时会伴随著雷暴出现。
• From dust devils and squalls up to continent-size eddies that only satellites can see.
  从小尘暴和暴风发展到只有卫星上可以看到的席卷整块大陆的旋涡。