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tsunami

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名词

词源

借自日語 津(つ)波(なみ) (tsunami)，源自津 (tsu，“港口”) + 波 (nami，“波浪”)。

读音

  • /(t)suːˈnɑːmi/ Received-Pronunciation
  • /(t)suˈnɑmi/ General-American
  • /(t)suˈnæmi/ Canada
  • /(t)suˈnɑmi/ Canada

释义

  1. 海啸

  2. 浪潮 （大规模难以阻挡的趋势，事态）

    figuratively

    It seemed that what started out as a handful of isolated cases gradually turned into a tsunami of complaints.

    2009, John Bernard Kelly, An Accidental Atheist: A Memoir, Aquinine books, →ISBN, page 306:

    It set off a tsunami of debate among the more esoteric critics, who either loved it or hated it but could not ignore it.

    2009, Marc Eliot, American Rebel: The Life of Clint Eastwood, Crown Archetype, →ISBN, page 86:

    The next decade would culminate in a tsunami of legislation, civil litigation, and criminal prosecutions in which assisted suicide was both criminalized (as in Michigan) and decriminalized (as in Oregon).

    2012, Demetra M. Pappas, The Euthanasia/Assisted-Suicide Debate, ABC-CLIO, →ISBN, page 60:

    The editor paid a heavy price - he was subsequently compelled to offer a grovelling and humiliating personal apology, following a tsunami of protest.

    2020 August 26, Nigel Harris, “Comment Special: Catastrophe at Carmont”, in Rail, page 4:
词形与写法（3）
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派生词（10）
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