Gale

(noun.) a strong wind moving 45-90 knots; force 7 to 10 on Beaufort scale.

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• Gale suggested that his simple electro-magnet, with its few turns of thick wire, should be replaced by one with a coil of long thin wire. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Mr. Gale went and opened. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• It'll blow a gale in the course of the night! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Though he knows,' said Mr. Bounderby, now blowing a gale, 'that there are a set of rascals and rebels whom transportation is too good for! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• It reefs its sail when a storm threatens or the wind blows pretty hard, and furls it entirely and goes down when a gale blows. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• It must be something important which has brought you out in such a gale. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• He explained this to Professor Gale, a colleague at the university, who later testified as to Morse’s work. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• Mr. Donne and his guests, as I have said, are at dinner; Mrs. Gale waits on them, but a spark of the hot kitchen fire is in her eye. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The gale had blown itself out next day, but it was a bitter morning when we started upon our journey. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• It is my strong impression that I heard it, and yet, among the crash of the gale and the creaking of an old house, I may possibly have been deceived. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• They shivered in the emotional gale; they obstructed and the gale became destructive. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Mrs. Gale, Mrs. Hogg, and Mrs. Whipp--their respective landladies--affirm that it is just for naught else but to give folk trouble. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Mr. Gale had been a churchwarden, and was indulgent to the clergy. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• There is a high gale in that sky, and on this hill-top. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Cooler and fresher at the moment the gale seemed to visit my brow: I could have deemed that in some wild, lone scene, I and Jane were meeting. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• It was in the latter days of September, and the equinoctial gales had set in with exceptional violence. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• The social gales of 1848 had blown, and, it seemed, blown themselves out. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Very long and very severe were the equinoctial gales that year. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• The autumn of that year was a stormy one, and there was a long succession of southerly gales. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• I could give many facts showing how frequently birds of many kinds are blown by gales to vast distances across the ocean. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• After three days at sea, terrible gales were encountered and much damage resulted. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• April advanced to May: a bright serene May it was; days of blue sky, placid sunshine, and soft western or southern gales filled up its duration. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• The morning-star now stands over the tops of the mountains, and gales and breezes, not of earth, show that the gates of day are unclosing. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• But the equinoctial gales were blowing out at sea, and the impartial south-west wind, in its flight, would not neglect even the narrow Marshalsea. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.

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