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tempest

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Related topics: Meteorology
tem·pest /ˈtempɪst/ noun [countableC]
1. literaryHEM a violent storm 暴風雨；暴風雪
2  a tempest in a teapot American EnglishAmE an unimportant matter that someone has become upset about 大驚小怪，小題大做
Haley dismissed the lawsuit as a tempest in a teapot.
黑利認爲這樁官司是小題大做。
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a tempest in a teapot• Haley dismissed the lawsuit as a tempest in a teapot.
Examples from the Corpus
tempest• Everything swept so clean By tempest, wind and rain!• Dunning and its January tempests seemed a world away.• The screaming tempest whipped into the house, hurling furniture twenty feet into the air.• They choked on the dirt gathered by the tempest, wiping it from their eyes as they ran.• The ancients staged mock battles to parallel the tempests in nature and reduce their fear of gods who warred across the sky.• The tempest may not be entirely over.
The TempestTempest, Then
na play by William shakespeare about prospero, the Duke of Milan, who has been forced by his brother to live alone on a distant island with his daughter miranda. The other main characters are Prospero's magical helper, Ariel, and his slavecaliban.
Origin tempest
(1200-1300) Old French tempeste, from Latin tempestas “season, weather, storm”, from tempus “time”

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