今天来记录一些学习笔记

第一章的标题是The Cyclone
Cyclone的意思是飓风、暴风、龙卷风。
那么和hurricane以及Typhoon有虾米区别哩？

词典上说，A Cyclone that originates over tropical seas deposits driving rain as it advances; such a cyclone origination in the west Indies is called a hurricane, and in the western Pacific, a typhoon.

好吧，总而言之就是发源地不同名字就不一样，所谓桔生淮南则为桔，桔生淮北则为枳。

除了这部分之外，第一章关于龙卷风的描写以及第二章里关于北方女巫和女巫的小跟班的描写还是可以学习一下，摘抄如下：

The north and south winds met where the house stood, and made it exact the center of the cyclone. In the middle of the cyclone the air is generally still, but the great pressure of the wind on every side of the house raised up higher and higher, until it was at the very top of the cyclone; and there it remained and was carried miles and miles away as easily as you could carry a feather.

Three were men and one a woman, and all were oddly dressed, they wore round hats that rose to a small point a foot above their heads, with little bells around the brims that tinkles the sweetly as they moved. The hats of the men were blue; the little woman's hat was white, and she wore a white gown that hung it in plaits from her shoulders; over it were sprinkled little stars that glistened in the sun like diamonds. The men were dressed in blue, of the same shades of their hats, and wore well polished boots with a deep roll of blue at the tops. The men, Dorothy thought, were about as old as Uncle Henry, for two of them had beards. But the little woman was doubtless much older: her face was covered with wrinkles, her hair was nearly white, and she walked rather stiffly.

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