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2 tropical cyclones strike Chinese coast in quick succession
CNN
Hong Kong (CNN) -- Two tropical cyclones have made landfall in eastern China, prompting the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people from coastal areas as the Philippines and Taiwan assess the damage that one of the storms left in its wake.


After Japan's Disaster, the Deluge
Wall Street Journal (blog)
By JAMES SIMMS Japan's manufacturers still recovering from the triple disasters of earthquake, tsunami and nuclear meltdown now have to contend with a fourth crisis: Floods in Thailand. For the companies involved, it may be the biggest problem of them ...


Spotlight:

Cy Young

How did the name Denton True Young get shortened to Cy Young? Denton True Young, one of baseball's greatest pitchers, was born on this date in 1867. His fastball was so powerful that a friend dubbed him "Cyclone." It was shortened to "Cy" and the name stuck. Young still holds records for most major-league wins (511), most games started and most innings pitched. He pitched so many games that he also holds the records for most losses (316). Young pitched the American League's first perfect game in 1904; in his career he pitched three no-hitters. The award for major league baseball's best pitcher of the year, the Cy Young Award, is named in his honor.

Quote:

"The guy pitches two good games and all of a sudden he's Cy Young." — Ozzie Guillén

胡適先生與胡頌平談過typhoon這字
ty·phoon (tī-fūn')
n.
A tropical cyclone occurring in the western Pacific or Indian oceans.

[Greek tuphōn, whirlwind, and Arabic ṭūfān, deluge (from Greek tuphōn), and Chinese (Cantonese) taaîfung (equivalent to Chinese (Mandarin) tái, great + Chinese (Mandarin) fēng, wind).]

WORD HISTORY The history of typhoon presents a perfect example of the long journey that many words made in coming to English. It traveled from Greece to Arabia to India, and also arose independently in China, before assuming its current form in our language. The Greek word tuphōn, used both as the name of the father of the winds and a common noun meaning "whirlwind, typhoon," was borrowed into Arabic during the Middle Ages, when Arabic learning both preserved and expanded the classical heritage and passed it on to Europe and other parts of the world. Ṭūfān, the Arabic version of the Greek word, passed into languages spoken in India, where Arabic-speaking Muslim invaders had settled in the 11th century. Thus the descendant of the Arabic word, passing into English (first recorded in 1588) through an Indian language and appearing in English in forms such as touffon and tufan, originally referred specifically to a severe storm in India. The modern form of typhoon was influenced by a borrowing from the Cantonese variety of Chinese, namely the word taaîfung, and respelled to make it look more like Greek. Taaîfung, meaning literally "great wind," was coincidentally similar to the Arabic borrowing and is first recorded in English guise as tuffoon in 1699. The various forms coalesced and finally became typhoon, a spelling that first appeared in 1819 in Shelley's Prometheus Unbound.

 cyclone

• 発音記号[sáikloun]

[名]

1 《気象》
(1) サイクロン：インド洋の熱帯性低気圧.
(2) （温帯性）低気圧. ⇒ANTICYCLONE

2 ((俗に))大竜巻(tornado).

3 集塵(しゅうじん)器.

［ギリシャ語kyklôn（kýklos円＋-ôn現在分詞語尾＝回転するもの）］

deluge[del・uge]

• レベル：社会人必須
• 発音記号[déljuːdʒ]

[名]

1 ((a ［the］ 〜))大水, 大洪水；((the D-))ノア(Noah)の洪水；大雨, 豪雨

be caught in a deluge of rain
激しい雨にあう

After us ［me］ the deluge .
我らが［わが］死後には洪水よ来たらば来たれ；あとは野となれ山となれ.

2 ((通例 a 〜))（洪水のように）押し寄せるもの, （…の）殺到；氾濫(はんらん)((of ...))

a deluge of congratulatory telegrams
殺到する祝電.

━━[動](他)

1 ((通例受身))〈場所に〉（…が）殺到する, 押し寄せる, 〈人に〉（質問などが）どっと来る, 〈人が〉（…で）圧倒される((with ...))

The town was deluged with tourists in summer.
夏には観光客がその町へどっと押し寄せた.

2 ((形式))…をあふれさす, 氾濫させる；…をずぶぬれにする

A heavy rain deluged the region.
大雨でその地方は水浸しになった.

［古フランス語←ラテン語dīluvium （dī-離れて＋lavere洗う＋-um＝洗い去ること→どっと押し寄せること）. △DILUVIAL］

west

 

音節

west

発音

wést

レベル

最重要

westの変化形

wests (複数形)

westの慣用句

west by north, go west, （全2件）

[名]

1 [U]((通例the 〜))西；西側, 西方

The sun set slowly in the west.
太陽はゆっくりと西に沈んだ

Mongolia is to the west of Japan.
モンゴルは日本の西方に位置する.

2 ((the 〜))西部地方；((通例the W-))((米))西部（▼Mississippi川以西から太平洋岸までの地方）

life in the West
西部の生活.

3 ((the W-))西洋(the Occident)；西欧, 欧米；（共産圏に対して）西側諸国.

4 ((the W-))《歴史》西ローマ帝国.

5 ((詩))西風.

west by north ［south］

西微北［南］.

━━[形]((時にW-))((通例限定))

1 〈場所が〉西（部）にある, 西に面した. ⇒EAST[語法]

the west gate
西（側の）門

the west side
西側（▼West Sideは米ニューヨークのマンハッタン西区）.

2 〈風が〉西からくる. ⇒[副]

the west wind
西風.

3 聖堂西側の, 祭壇と反対側の.

━━[副]((しばしばW-))西［西部, 西方］へ［に］；〈風が〉西へ（▼((まれ))に「西から」）. ⇒[形]2

The plane flew west.
飛行機は西に向かって飛行した

Go west young man.
若者よ西部へ行け；新規まき直しをはかれ.

go west

((古風・おどけて))
(1) 死ぬ.
(2) だめになる, 衰える；〈金などが〉なくなる.
(3) ⇒[副]