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wind CURRENT OF AIRwIndna current of air moving approximately horizontally, esp. one strong enough to be felt风，气流There isn't enough wind to fly a kite. [U]风不够大，放不了风筝。The weather forecast warned of winds of up to 60-miles-an-hour today. [C]天气预报警告说今天的风速高达每小时60英里。There was a light wind blowing. [C]一阵微风吹着。Strong/High winds made the crossing very unpleasant. [C]大风使摆渡变得令人非常不舒服。The sails flapped in the wind. [U]帆在风中拍打。(literary) There wasn't a breath of (= even a slight amount of) wind. [U]一丝风都没有。A gust of wind suddenly caught her skirt. [U]一阵风突然缠住了她的裙子。The wind is beginning to pick up (= get stronger). [U]风开始越来越大了。She ran like the wind (= very fast) to catch up. [U]她飞跑着赶上去。To get wind of a piece of secret information is to hear about it.听到…的风声，获悉有关…的消息I don't want my colleagues to get wind of the fact that I'm leaving in case they tell my boss.我不想让同事们听到关于我要离开的风声，免得他们去告诉老板。(Br and Aus) If something puts/gets the wind up someone it frightens them or causes them severe anxiety.使…变得害怕，使…变得紧张Tell them your father's a policeman--that'll put the wind up them!告诉他们你父亲是一个警察----那会使他们感到害怕！To take the wind out of someone's sails is to take away their confidence, anger or determination suddenly by doing or saying something that they are not expecting.冷不防使某人丧失优势，使某人狼狈，使某人泄气I was all ready to tell him that the relationship was over when he greeted me with a big bunch of flowers--it rather took the wind out of my sails.我本已准备告诉他我们的关系已经结束了，可他捧着一大束花向我迎来----这使我的心又软了下来。Wind-chill is the effect that wind has on how cold the air feels.风寒It's two degrees outside, but with the wind-chill factor it feels like minus five.外面是摄氏2度，但由于风寒的缘故，感觉上像是零下5度。Wind chimes are an arrangement of shells or small decorative shapes of metal or wood that hang from pieces of wire or string and make a gentle noise when moved by the wind.风铎，风铃A wind gauge is a device for measuring the force of the wind.风力计，风速计A wind instrument is a musical instrument whose sound is produced by blowing.管乐器，吹奏乐器Saxophones and flutes are wind instruments.萨克斯管和横笛是管乐器。A wind tunnel is an enclosed passage or room through which currents of air of different strengths are forced in order to study the effects of moving air on aircraft and other vehicles travelling at various speeds.风洞A wind turbine is a tall structure with blades that are blown round by the wind and produce power to make electricity.（用来发电的）风轮机"The wind of change is blowing through this continent (= Africa), and, whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact'"(from a speech made by Harold Macmillan (Lord Stockton) at Cape Town, 1960)“变革之风正在吹过这个大陆（非洲），而且，不管我们喜欢与否，这一民族意识的增长是一个政治事实”（选自哈罗德·麦克米伦（斯托克顿勋爵）在开普敦所做的演讲）"Gone with the Wind" (title of a book by Margaret Mitchell, 1936)《飘》（玛格丽特·米切尔所写的一本书的标题）
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