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wind

英 [wɪnd] 美[wɪnd]

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近义词pivot turn draft respiration air twist bend gust swivel breath breeze coil

n. 风；呼吸；气味；卷绕
vt. 缠绕；上发条；使弯曲；吹号角；绕住或缠住某人
vi. 缠绕；上发条；吹响号角
n. (Wind)人名；(英、德、瑞典)温德

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词态变化

复数: winds;第三人称单数: winds;过去式: wound; winded;过去分词: wound; winded;现在分词: winding;

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谐音“弯的”。

中文词源

wind 风

来自PIE*we,吹，词源同ventilate,wing.

wind 蜿蜒

来自PIE*wendh,弯，转，缠绕，来自PIE*wei的扩大形式，词源同vine,vetch.

英英释意

1. air moving (sometimes with considerable force) from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure;: "trees bent under the fierce winds"; "when there is no wind, row"; "the radioactivity was being swept upwards by the air current and out into the atmosphere"

2. a tendency or force that influences events;: "the winds of change"

3. breath;: "the collision knocked the wind out of him"

4. empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk;: "that's a lot of wind"; "don't give me any of that jazz"

5. an indication of potential opportunity;: "he got a tip on the stock market"; "a good lead for a job"

6. a musical instrument in which the sound is produced by an enclosed column of air that is moved by the breath

7. a reflex that expels intestinal gas through the anus

8. the act of winding or twisting;: "he put the key in the old clock and gave it a good wind"

英文词源

wind: wind: English has three distinct words wind. The noun, ‘moving air’ [OE], came from a prehistoric Germanic *windaz, which also produced German and Dutch wind and Swedish and Danish vind. This in turn went back to Indo- European *went-, whose other descendants include Latin ventus (source of English vent, ventilate, etc) and Welsh gwynt.

And *wentitself was derived from the base *we- ‘blow’, source also of Greek aétēs ‘wind’ and áēr ‘air’ (from which English gets air), Sanskrit vátas ‘wind’, and Russian vejat’ ‘blow’. The now archaic verb wind ‘blow a horn’ [16], for all that it rhymes with wind ‘wrap round’, was derived from the noun wind. Wind ‘wrap round’ [OE] originally meant ‘go in a particular direction’; ‘wrap’ did not emerge until the 14th century, via an intermediate ‘go in a circle’.

It came from a prehistoric Germanic *windon (source also of German and Dutch winden, Swedish vinda, and Danish vinde), which was formed from a variant of the base which produced English wand, wander, and wend.
=> air, vent, ventilate, weather, winnow; wand, wander, went
wind (n.1): "air in motion," Old English wind "wind," from Proto-Germanic *windaz (cognates: Old Saxon, Old Frisian, Middle Dutch, Dutch wind, Old Norse vindr, Old High German wind, German Wind, Gothic winds), from PIE *we-nt-o- "blowing," from root *we- "to blow" (cognates: Sanskrit va-, Greek aemi-, Gothic waian, Old English wawan, Old High German wajan, German wehen, Old Church Slavonic vejati "to blow;" Sanskrit vatah, Avestan vata-, Hittite huwantis, Latin ventus, Old Church Slavonic vetru, Lithuanian vejas "wind;" Lithuanian vetra "tempest, storm;" Old Irish feth "air;" Welsh gwynt, Breton gwent "wind").

Normal pronunciation evolution made this word rhyme with kind and rind (Donne rhymes it with mind), but it shifted to a short vowel 18c., probably from influence of windy, where the short vowel is natural. A sad loss for poets, who now must rhyme it only with sinned and a handful of weak words. Symbolic of emptiness and vanity since late 13c.
I have forgot much, Cynara! gone with the wind. [Ernest Dowson, 1896]
Meaning "breath" is attested from late Old English; especially "breath in speaking" (early 14c.), so long-winded, also "easy or regular breathing" (early 14c.), hence second wind in the figurative sense (by 1830), an image from the sport of hunting.

Winds "wind instruments of an orchestra" is from 1876. Figurative phrase which way the wind blows for "the current state of affairs" is suggested from c. 1400. To get wind of "receive information about" is by 1809, perhaps inspired by French avoir le vent de. To take the wind out of (one's) sails in the figurative sense (by 1883) is an image from sailing, where a ship without wind can make no progress. Wind-chill index is recorded from 1939. Wind energy from 1976. Wind vane from 1725.
wind (v.1): "move by turning and twisting," Old English windan "to turn, twist, plait, curl, brandish, swing" (class III strong verb; past tense wand, past participle wunden), from Proto-Germanic *windan "to wind" (cognates: Old Saxon windan, Old Norse vinda, Old Frisian winda, Dutch winden, Old High German wintan, German winden, Gothic windan "to wind"), from PIE *wendh- "to turn, wind, weave" (cognates: Latin viere "twist, plait, weave," vincire "bind;" Lithuanian vyti "twist, wind").

Related to wend, which is its causative form, and to wander. The past tense and past participle merged in Middle English. Meaning "to twine, entwine oneself around" is from 1590s; transitive sense of "turn or twist round and round (on something) is from c. 1300. Meaning "set a watch, clockwork, etc. in operating mode by tightening its spring" is from c. 1600. Wind down "come to a conclusion" is recorded from 1952; wind up "come to a conclusion" is from 1825; earlier in transitive sense "put (affairs) in order in advance of a final settlement" (1780). Winding sheet "shroud of a corpse" is attested from early 15c.
wind (v.2): "to perceive by scent, get wind of," c. 1400, from wind (n.1). Of horns, etc., "make sound by blowing through," from 1580s. Meaning "tire, put out of breath; render temporarily breathless" is from 1802, originally in pugilism, in reference to the effect of a punch in the stomach. Related: Winded; winding.
wind (n.2): "an act of winding round," 1825, from wind (v.1) . Earlier, "an apparatus for winding," late 14c., in which use perhaps from a North Sea Germanic word, such as Middle Dutch, Middle Low German winde "windlass."

同义词辨析

wind, breeze

这两个名词均有"风"之意。

wind：普通用词，指空气的流动现象。

breeze：系微风的总称。

考试真题

Nicaraguan naval authorities had banned sea travel in the area because of bad weather and strong winds, but the tour boat proceeded anyway.

His teacher said if he went on like that, his face would get stuck when the winds changed.

That damaging other people in your community and in your life, trashing relationships, results in a kind of self-inflicted ( ' , 自己招致的 ) spiritual wound.

I can not control whether or not I wind up getting the disease swine flu, for example, he says.

He was saving the life of a 9-month-old boy who was blown into the path of an oncoming subway train by a high wind.

Alternative forms of energy- bio-fuels, wind and solar, to name a few are certainly being funded and developed, and will play a growingrolein the world's energy supply.

For example, even with significantinvestments, such as the $93 million for wind energy development included in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, important alternative energy sources such as wind and bio-fuels comprise only about 1% of the market today

Take a drink outside with a good person, a good gathering: talk with the sun and the wind with birdsong for background.

"I can not control whether or not I wind up getting the disease swine flu, for example," he says.

He was saving the life of a 9-month-old boy who was blown into the path of an oncoming subway train by a high wind.

On Wednesday, a polar wind brought bitter cold to the midwest.

The wind blew the baby onto the tracks.

There was a strong wind.

wind chills were 64 degrees below zero in Park Rapids, minnesota and 45 degrees below zero in Buffalo, North Dakota, according to the National Weather Service.

Technological innovations have unleashed the power of renewables such as wind, hydro, solar, and geothermal ( ' , 地热).

Previously, scientists noticed pollutants arriving in the Arctic with the wind.

Born in fire and fury, Devils Tower was then shaped by the slow, gentle work of wind and water.

That’s energy in all forms--oil, gas, coal, nuclear, solar and even wind power.

More than paradise lost, a perishing rain forest could trigger a domino effect - sending winds and rains kilometers off course and loading the skies with even greater levels of greenhouse gases - that will be felt far beyond the Amazon basin.

The changed patterns of winds and rains in the Amazon area

But while much of the research and innovation has concentrated on finding less-polluting energy alternatives, it may be decades before clean technologies like wind and solar meet a significant portion of our energy needs.

Often they wind up deeply in debt or simply unable to pay after a year or two and must drop out.

We can tear apart the great grass cover of the western plains and pour toxic chemicals into the soil until the soil is dead and blows away in the wind.

Technological innovations have unleashed the power of renewables such as wind, hydro, solar, and geothermal (地热).

Almost half of that winds up in landfills, and up to 12 million tons pollute the oceans.

California condors are north America's largest birds, with wind-length of up to 3 meters.

El nifio sees warm water, collected over several years in the western pacific, flow back eastwards when winds that normally blow westwards weaken.

He was an international grandmaster, which meant I wound be learning from one of the game's best.

In the afternoon, there will be rain in most places, with winds becoming stronger along the coast.

In wind and rain she started on her difficult way.

It is a truly delightful place, which looks the same as it must have done 100 years ago with its winding streets and pretty cottages.

More wind power stations will spring up to meet the demand for clean energy.

My 10-year-old noticed him and make a comment on how bad it must be to have to stand outside in the cold wind.

The cooling wind swept through out bedroom windows, making air conditioning unnecessary.

The first thing he did was to find shelter form the freezing wind and snow.

The wind blew non-stop, and all the food I ate, and the very air I breathed, were filled with sand, sand, sand!

Then, when I came back, a strong warm wind began to blow.

The humiliations of his father’s imprisonment and his labor in the blacking factory formed Dicken’s greatest wound and became his deepest secret.

But increasingly the story is about the plummeting prices of renewables, especially wind and solar.

But that message did not play well with many in Iowa, where wind turbines dot the fields and provide 36 percent of the state's electricity generation – and where tech giants like Microsoft are being attracted by the availability of clean energy to power t

In a recent speech in Lowa, he dismissed wind power as an unreliable energy source.

In March, for the first time, wind and solar power accounted for more than 10 percent of the power generated in the US, reported the US Energy Information Administration.

In Scotland, for example, wind turbines provide enough electricity to power 95 percent of homes.

The cost of solar panels has dropped by 80 percent and the cost of wind turbines by close to one-third in the past eight years.

While fossil fuels – coal, oil, gas – still generate roughly 85 percent of the world's energy supply, it's clearer than ever that the future belongs to renewable sources such as wind and solar.

词组搭配

before the wind

(Sailing)with the wind blowing from astern

(航海)顺风，借风力

get wind of

(informal)begin to suspect that (something) is happening; hear a rumour of

(非正式)开始觉察；听到…的风声，获悉…的消息

Mortimer got wind of a plot being hatched.
莫蒂默听风声说有人正在策划阴谋。

it's an ill wind that blows nobody any good

(proverb)few things are so bad that no one profits from them

(谚)使人人遭殃的风才是恶风；世上鲜有绝对的坏事；害于此者利于彼

like the wind

very quickly

飞快地

she ran like the wind back to the house.
她飞快地跑回屋子。

off the wind

(Sailing)with the wind on the quarter

(航海)顺风

on a wind

(Sailing)against a wind on either bow

(航海)逆风，迎风，顶风

put (或 have) the wind up

(Brit. informal)alarm or frighten (or be alarmed or frightened)

(英，非正式)（使）警觉；（使）受惊吓

he was trying to put the wind up him with stories of how hard teaching was.
他正极力用教学如何如何困难的说法来吓唬他。

sail close to (或 near) the wind

(Sailing)sail as nearly against the wind as is consistent with using its force

(航海)迎风航行

(informal)verge on indecency, dishonesty, or disaster

(非正式)行为几失检点；近乎不老实；濒临险境

take the wind out of someone's sails

frustrate someone by unexpectedly anticipating an action or remark

先发制人；冷不防挫败某人

to the wind(s) (或 the four winds)

in all directions

四面八方

my little flock scatters to the four winds.
我的一小群羊分散四方。

wind down

(of a mechanism, especially one operated by clockwork) gradually lose power

（尤指用发条驱动的机械装置）渐渐停下

wind up informal 非正式

arrive or end up in a specified state, situation, or place

抵达；（以某状态，情况或在某地）结束

Kevin winds up in New York .
凯文终于抵达纽约。

another way of saying wind something up (in sense 2)

同 wind something up(义项2):

he wound up by attacking Nonconformists.
最终他选择攻击那些不信奉国教者。

wind someone up

(Brit. informal)tease or irritate someone

(英，非正式)捉弄，激怒（某人）

she's only winding me up.
她只是捉弄我罢了。

(一般作 be wound up)make tense or angry

使紧张（或生气）

he was clearly wound up and frantic about his daughter.
很明显，他被女儿气得发疯。

wind something up

arrange the affairs of and dissolve a company

（公司）停业清理

the company has since been wound up.
这家公司从此倒闭了。

gradually or finally bring an activity to a conclusion

慢慢终止；以…告终

the experiments had to be wound up because the funding stopped.
因为资金资助已停止，这些实验不得不被终止。

(informal)increase the tension, intensity, or power of something

(非正式)增加某物的紧张度（或强度、力量）

he wound up the engine.
他加大马力。

实用场景例句

strong/high winds: 强劲的风；大风

gale-force winds: 大风级的风

a light wind: 小风

a north/south/east/west wind: 北 / 南 / 东 / 西风

a chill/cold/biting wind from the north: 冷飕飕的 / 寒冷的 / 刺骨的北风

The wind is blowing from the south.: 刮的是南风。

The trees were swaying in the wind .: 树在风中摇晃。

A gust of wind blew my hat off.: 一阵风把我的帽子刮掉了。

The weather was hot, without a breath of wind .: 天气炎热，连一丝风都没有。

The wall gives some protection from the prevailing wind .: 这堵墙挡着常刮的风，起到一些保护作用。

The wind is getting up (= starting to blow strongly) .: 风势越来越大。

The wind has dropped (= stopped blowing strongly) .: 风势已经减弱。

wind speed/direction: 风速；风向

There was a strong wind blowing...: 狂风肆虐。

Then the wind dropped and the surface of the sea was still...: 后来风势渐弱，海面重归平静。

The winds of change are blowing across the country...: 改革之风吹遍全国。

The world's entire aerospace industry is feeling the chill winds of recession.: 全世界的航空航天工业都感受到了经济衰退的寒意。

He was winded and shaken...: 他呼吸困难，身体发抖。

The cow stamped on his side, winding him.: 牛重重地踩在他的肋部，使他喘不上气来。

If he cries when you put him down after a feed, try winding him.: 如果你喂完后把他放下时他哭，给他拍拍嗝儿。

I don't want the public, and especially not the press, to get wind of it at this stage.: 我不想让公众，尤其是新闻界，在这个阶段听到什么风声。

By the mid-1980s, change was in the wind again.: 20世纪80年代中期，变革又呈山雨欲来之势。

'I heard you had some funny phone calls.' — 'Yeah, that's why yours rather put the wind up me.': “我听说你接到了一些骚扰电话。”——“没错儿，所以你的电话把我吓坏了。”

Max warned her she was sailing dangerously close to the wind and risked prosecution.: 马克斯警告她说她这是在玩火，有被起诉的危险。

He didn't like to make pronouncements before he was sure which way the wind was blowing.: 在没有弄清事态的走向前，他不想发表声明。

The Moselle winds through some 160 miles of tranquil countryside...: 摩泽尔河在宁静的乡间蜿蜒穿行约160英里。

The road winds uphill...: 道路沿山坡蜿蜒而上。

The horse jumped forwards and round her, winding the rope round her waist.: 那匹马围着她向前跳，把绳子绕在了她腰上。

I still hadn't wound my watch so I didn't know the time.: 我还没有给表上发条，所以不知道时间。

The camcorder winds the tape back or forward at high speed.: 这款便携式摄像机可以使录像带快速倒回或前进。