stormy

Word family

Related topics: Meteorology

1 HEMwith strong winds, heavy rain, and dark clouds 暴风雨的

The sky was starting to look stormy.

开始变天了，看上去暴风雨将至。

a dark and stormy night

漆黑的暴风雨之夜

2 ANGRYa stormy relationship, meeting etc is full of strong and often angry feelings 〔关系、会议等〕充满激烈情绪的

a stormy affair

充满波折的风流事

3 stormy seas are very rough, with big waves that are caused by strong winds 〔海面〕波涛汹涌的

hostile, stormy seas

暗藏凶险、波涛翻滚的大海

Examples from the Corpus

stormy• The December peace talks are likely to be stormy.• Their relationship has been often stormy.• Their relationship could be stormy at times.• After a long and sometimes stormy discussion, a decision was finally reached.• We walked the town walls, whilst Jessie Young told us breathtaking stories of battered Berwick's stormy history.• a stormy meeting• He was ready to take on the salt air and the stormy sea.• This stormy summer threw down and scattered grain, held berries back from ripening.• Unfortunately, my parents' marriage slowly hit stormy weather and they split up.• Instead he ran into stormy weather.• A wild, stormy wind was blowing, and in the garden I passed the wreck of the great tree.• a stormy winter night

Chinese

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Corpus

BNC: 9490 COCA: 11643

stormy adj.
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BNC: 9490 COCA: 11643

stormy