| 单词 | 天气预报 |
| 释义 | 〔Espy〕American pioneer meteorologist who organized a system of communication between weather stations across the country that facilitated forecasting and developed into the U.S. Weather Bureau.埃斯皮，詹姆斯·波拉德：(1785-1860) 美国气象专家，曾经组织建立起一个联系全国各地气象台的通讯系统，该系统使天气预报精确，后来逐渐发展为美国气象局〔weather〕Relating to or used in weather forecasting:天气预报的：与天气预报有关或在天气预报中使用的：〔meteorologist〕One who reports and forecasts weather conditions, as on television.天气预报员：报告和预告天气情况的人，如电视气象预报员〔almanac〕An annual publication including calendars with weather forecasts, astronomical information, tide tables, and other related tabular information.年历；历书：一种年度出版物，包括含天气预报、天文信息、潮汐图表和其它相关表格信息的日历〔fair〕American folk speech puts Standard English to shame in its wealth of words for describing weather conditions.When the weather goes from fair to cloudy,New Englanders say that it's "breedin' up a storm" (Maine informant in theLinguistic Atlas of New England ). If the weather is clear, however,a New Englander might call itopen. Southernfair off and fair up, meaning "to become clear,” were originally Northeastern terms and were brought to the South as settlement expanded southward and westward.They are now "regionalized to the South,” according to Craig M. Carver, author ofAmerican Regional Dialects. These phrases may be the origin of modern and less regional coinings,such asmild up, used on a television weather forecast: "The Southwest is beginning to mild up just a tad.”美国方言对天气状况的描写因其应有尽有的单词使标准英语黯然失色。当天气由晴转多云时，新英格兰人会说“孕育着一场暴风雨”（新英格兰语言学图册 的缅因消息提供者）。 但如果天气是无云的，新英格兰人也许会说open。 南部的fair off 和 fair up 所表示的放晴， 起源于东北部词语，后被带到南部成为固定用法并向南向西流传。根据克雷格M·卡弗尔，美国地区方言 的作者所说，它们如今已“被南方地区化了”。 这些词组或许正是现代不再具地区性的词句的起源，例如mild up， 用于电视天气预报： “西南将变得暖和一点”〔crawl〕A set of letters or figures that move across, up, or down a movie or television screen, usually giving information, such as film credits or weather alerts.爬行字幕：在电影或电视屏幕上横向或纵向爬行出现的一组字母或数字，通常用来提供摄制人员名单或天气预报之类的信息〔barometer〕Abbr. bar.An instrument for measuring atmospheric pressure, used especially in weather forecasting.缩写 bar.气压表，气压计：测量大气压力的仪器，尤用于天气预报 |
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