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    /tɔːrˈneɪdoʊ/ · /tɔːˈneɪdəʊ/

    A very violent storm made of air that spins round extremely fast in a tall narrow shape, reaching from a cloud down to the ground, and damaging or destroying things as it moves.

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    複數 tornadoestornados

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Picture a narrow column of spinning air hanging down from a storm cloud and touching the ground — thin compared to the sky it comes from, but turning so fast that it lifts roofs, cars and trees on the strip of land it crosses. The shape is the key: tall, narrow, spinning, joining cloud to earth.

可以想成一根從烏雲垂下來、一路接到地面的旋轉空氣柱：跟整片天空比起來它很細，但轉得極快，走過的那一條地帶上，屋頂、車…更多收起可以想成一根從烏雲垂下來、一路接到地面的旋轉空氣柱：跟整片天空比起來它很細，但轉得極快，走過的那一條地帶上，屋頂、車子、樹都會被捲起來。這個字的畫面重點在「形狀」——又高又窄、不停打轉，把雲和地面連在一起。

原始詞典資料2 筆記錄

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tornadonoun/tɔː(ɹ)ˈneɪ.dəʊ/

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    climatologymeteorologynatural-sciencesA violent wind in the form of a mobile, rapidly rotating, funnel cloud that has contacted the ground.

    • An extreme version of vorticity is a vortex. The vortex is a spinning, cyclonic mass of fluid, which can be observed in the rotation of water going down a drain, as well as in smoke rings, tornados and hurricanes.
    • Some of the same areas hit by tornadoes just a little over a week ago are expecting severe storms again Monday afternoon and evening. […] A multiday severe weather outbreak is possible Monday through Wednesday, increasing the already-above average tornado count even higher.

tornadoverb/tɔː(ɹ)ˈneɪ.dəʊ/

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    To sweep through something violently.

    • And so on Friday nights, James Torin tornadoed through six beers, a carton of cigarettes, a coffee table littered with lottery tickets, and unrequited dreams.
    • They come every night, those cavernous trains, tornadoing the frozen house, a madness feeling for the door.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。