(a.) Of or pertaining to a tempest; involving or resembling
a tempest; turbulent; violent; stormy; as, tempestuous weather; a
tempestuous night; a tempestuous debate.
校对:洛丽塔
双语例句
At night, naked and scarcely pro tected from the wind and rain of this tempestuous c limate, they slept on the wet ground coiled up like animals. 李贝.西洋科学史.
My tattered dress was that in which I had crawled half alive from the tempestuous sea. 玛丽·雪莱.最后一个人.
Three weeks of that vacation were hot, fair, and dry, but the fourth and fifth were tempestuous and wet. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.维莱特.
It was a wild, tempestuous night, towards the close of November. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔.福尔摩斯归来记.
Hardly less disturbed than the tempestuous world of waters was the assembly of human beings, that from the cliff fearfully watched its ravings. 玛丽·雪莱.最后一个人.
Yet the blast she thought too tempestuous for her mare she herself faced on foot; that afternoon she walked nearly as far as Nunnely. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.