核心畫面

Picture the moment before and during a storm: the sky goes dark and heavy, and then the thunder arrives with a sound you feel in your chest as well as hear. Thunderous can be read as putting one of those two things onto something else. Take the noise, and a hall of hands becomes thunderous. Take the dark sky, and a person's face becomes thunderous.

可以想成暴風雨前後的那一刻:天色先沉下來、變得又暗又重,接著雷聲到了,那個聲音不只進耳朵,胸口也震。thundero更多收起可以想成暴風雨前後的那一刻:天色先沉下來、變得又暗又重,接著雷聲到了,那個聲音不只進耳朵,胸口也震。thunderous 可以理解成把這兩樣其中一樣搬到別的東西上。拿聲音,一整個禮堂的掌聲就成了 thunderous;拿那片天色,一個人的臉就成了 thunderous。

From the word’s history

Recorded as thunder + -ous, the ending that means having the quality of a thing.

來源記為 thunder(雷)加上 -ous,這個尾巴表示「帶有某種性質的」,字面上就是「身上帶著雷」。

Wiktionary/kaikki extract for thunderous: From thunder + -ous (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1299190125:10975)