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.
Значення
значень: 3A storm, especially one with severe winds.
Sturm
бу́ряbúrja
бу́ряbúrja
Any violent tumult or commotion.
бу́ряbúrja
a violent commotion or disturbance
(застаріле)A fashionable social gathering; a drum.
Приклади
речень: 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.
Переклади
мов: 8За значеннями 1
За значеннями 1
За значеннями 1
Походження
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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Форми
множина: tempestsСиноніми
синонімів: 1- a violent commotion or disturbance:storm