twister

英 [ˈtwɪstə(r)]

美 [ˈtwɪstər]

n.  旋风; 龙卷风

复数：twisters　

医学

BNC.39529 / COCA.20510

牛津词典

noun

• 旋风；龙卷风
  a violent storm that is caused by a powerful spinning column of air

柯林斯词典

• 同 tornado
  Atwisteris the same as atornado.

英英释义

noun

• small friedcake formed into twisted strips and fried
  Synonym:cruller
• a localized and violently destructive windstorm occurring over land characterized by a funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground
  Synonym:tornado

双语例句

• This surveillance camera kept rolling inside one possible twister in Indiana as the tin roof came off a barn and a boat went airborne.
  印第安纳州一个摄像头一直在可能爆发的龙卷风内转动。一个谷仓的锡制屋顶被吹下来，一艘船只也在空转。
• The city manager says the Sunday twister cut a half-mile-wide path of destruction through the town.
  该镇所在城市的市长说这个龙卷风所造成的破坏范围达半里之广。
• The magic school bus a Science Chapter Book twister trouble!
  神奇校车自然科学篇：有麻烦了！
• Heddle lifter for textile machines continuous spin-draw twister
  综丝提升机，纺织机械用连续纺丝拉伸加捻机
• The person he had trusted turns out to be a twister.
  他起先信任的人原来是个骗子。
• Aiming to a type of double twister strander, a newly digital control system have been developed.
  针对某型双捻机，研究开发了新型的数字式控制系统。
• I don't think tongue twister is very exciting/ interesting, actually.
  实际上，我觉得绕口令没什么意思。
• Oh, that's no twister, that's her sister.
  哦，那不是旋风，那是她的妹妹。
• We videotaped a twister while traveling through Texas.
  旅行经过德克萨斯州时，我们摄下了龙卷风。
• This sentence is a tongue twister.
  这句话很绕嘴。