a violent tropical storm with very strong winds 台风 Extra Examplescompare cyclone, hurricaneTopics Weatherb2, The environmentb2His home was destroyed in a typhoon. 他的家在台风中被毁了。 The plantation was devastated by a typhoon. 台风毁掉了种植园。 Earthquakes, typhoons and other natural disasters are frequent in that part of the Pacific. 地震、台风和其他自然灾害在太平洋的那个地区频繁肆虐。 The hottest time of year coincides with the typhoon season. 一年中最热的时候正好是台风季节。
Oxford Collocations Dictionarytyphoon + verb- hit something
- strike something
- damage something
- …
- in a/the typhoon
Word Originlate 16th cent.: partly via Portuguese from Arabic ṭūfān (perhaps from Greek tuphōn ‘whirlwind’); reinforced by Chinese dialect tai fung ‘big wind’.