Monsoon的意思|Monsoon的解释-里氏词典

monsoon [mɒn'su:n]

n. 季风, 吹季风的季节, 雨季

monsoon

[ noun ]

a seasonal wind in southern Asia; blows from the southwest (bringing rain) in summer and from the northeast in winter

<noun.phenomenon>

rainy season in southern Asia when the southwestern monsoon blows, bringing heavy rains

<noun.time>

any wind that changes direction with the seasons

<noun.phenomenon>

Monsoon \Mon*soon"\, n. [Malay m[=u]sim, fr. Ar. mausim a time,
season: cf. F. monson, mousson, Sr. monzon, Pg. mon[,c][~a]o,
It. monsone.]
A wind blowing part of the year from one direction,
alternating with a wind from the opposite direction; -- a
term applied particularly to periodical winds of the Indian
Ocean, which blow from the southwest from the latter part of
May to the middle of September, and from the northeast from
about the middle of October to the middle of December.

2. A heavy rainfall in India associated with the southwest
monsoon[1].
[PJC]

3. The season in which the monsoon[2] occurs.
[PJC]

The northwestern region has been drenched since annual monsoon rains began in July.
At least 64 people died nationwide since Thursday, bringing to 748 the nationwide death toll from floods that began with the monsoon rains in June, newspapers reported today.
The diseases broke out after the annual southwest monsoon hit India and the rains contaminated drinking water supplies.
The death toll from the Himalayan earthquake topped 750 on Wednesday as rescue workers hampered by monsoon rains, aftershocks and washed out roads reached remote areas of Nepal and found more bodies.
Several southern and eastern Indian states have had heavy rains with the onset of the monsoon last week.
Annual monsoon rains cause yearly floods in Bangladesh, whose 110 million people are among the world's poorest with an average income of $150 a year.
Floods and heavy rain are common in Bangladesh at this time of year, when the annual monsoon begins.
Thousands of people taking shelter from rising floodwaters in Dhaka's streets and parks panicked Friday when monsoon showers hit the city and triggered fears of a deluge.
The victims had been stranded in Talawilla by heavy monsoon rains, according to police officials in nearby Wennappuwa, 30 miles north of Colombo.
Floods caused by monsoon rains have swept through three provinces of Pakistan, killing 158 people and causing extensive damage to property and crops, the minister of justice said Thursday.
They also blamed the increases on transportation difficulties during the monsoon season.
The drought that had ravaged the desert state of Rajasthan eased this year when the monsoon arrived after a three-year absence.
Last year, about 1,200 people died in floods from the annual monsoon rains, which last from April through July.
Since last month, about 50 people have died in monsoon flooding in Bangladesh, according to press reports.
In nine of the last 12 years the gold price has been lower in February than in January. In addition the Indian wedding season runs from September to May, and takes a complete break during the June-August monsoon.
Annual monsoon rains, which cause many rivers to overflow, began in early June and are expected to last through September.
But as the monsoon season approaches, signaling a slowdown in fighting, the tide appears to have turned.
The Sri Lankan army does not have enough men to keep the port supplied through rebel territory during the monsoon.
In the northwest, four children drowned Sunday in the Jamuna river, raising to 13 the death toll from monsoon flooding in that region, officials and news reports said.
For reasons I fail to grasp, monsoon rain falls - real water, in torrents.
Cyclones and monsoon floods strike the low-lying nation with deadly regularity.
The south-west monsoon, begining in June, is crucial for India's summer crop, which is bigger than the winter crop.
The Hindu, a Madras-based newspaper, said Saturday that this year's monsoon should cover the country by mid-July, auguring well for the summer crop.
A good monsoon season brought plenty of moisture and moderated the heat over India, although the heavy rains triggered some landslides and flooding.
Bangladesh is a region of deltas for rivers that rush down from the Himalayas during the annual monsoon rains.
Maya Rao, a university teacher who has lived in New Delhi for many years, described New Delhi's monsoon this way: "There is muck and mud all over, mosquitoes attack you in hordes, diseases spread like vice.
Landslides have been reported throughout northern India since the annual monsoon rains began in late June.
The Agriculture Ministry said Friday the food output for the 1987-88 growing season was 138 million tons, compared with 152.4 million tons for 1983-84, the last time there was a good monsoon.
In the first millenium B.C., Omani seafarers sailed with the monsoon winds to India and East Africa.
Meantime, the growing black cloud from the Kuwaiti oil-field fire covers much of the northern Persian Gulf, threatening to affect everything from bird migration to the monsoon season.

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