tempest
A storm, especially one with severe windsA storm, especially one with severe winds.
» It's a tempest in a teapot.
Das ist ein Sturm im Wasserglas.
Значение
значений: 3A storm, especially one with severe winds.
Sturm
бу́ряbúrja
бу́ряbúrja
Any violent tumult or commotion.
бу́ряbúrja
a violent commotion or disturbance
(устаревшее)A fashionable social gathering; a drum.
Примеры
предложений: 5It's a tempest in a teapot.
deDas ist ein Sturm im Wasserglas.
Mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are a tempest and hailstorm.
But U.N. officials call the number of people seeking asylum in the industrialized countries a tempest in a teapot.
Here in a vast cavern king Aeolus rules over the struggling winds and howling tempests, and restrains them in prison with fetters.
Here AEolus within a dungeon vast / the sounding tempest and the struggling blast / bends to his sway and bridles them with chains.
Переводы
языков: 8По значениям 1
По значениям 1
По значениям 1
Происхождение
From Old French tempeste (French tempête), from Latin tempestas (“storm”), from tempus (“tFrom Old French tempeste (French tempête), from Latin tempestas (“storm”), from tempus (“time, weather”). Displaced native Old English hrīþ.
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Формы
мн. число: tempestsСинонимы
синонимов: 1- a violent commotion or disturbance:storm