| 单词 | chinook wind |
| 例句 | Actor Leonardo DiCaprio is being mocked for recent comments he made confusing Canada’s warm chinook winds with the “terrifying” effects of climate change. Leonardo DiCaprio mocked for confusing Canada’s chinook winds with ‘terrifying’ climate change 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z The chinook winds of the western portion of Canada and the United States occur principally to the eastward of high mountains, for the reason that the prevailing air-currents of that region are from the west. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z Near the Rockies the snowfall is not as heavy as farther east, and the chinook winds have a tempering influence. Canada West 2011-03-03T03:00:58.087Z The warm chinook winds from the Pacific often blow in winter, and speedily melt the snow. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide By the time the den was completed the chinook wind had cooled, and winter tightened down over the hills once more, freezing the surface dirt so solidly as to make excavating impossible. The Yellow Horde These are called chinook winds, because they come from the direction of the country of the Chinook Indians. Ted Strong in Montana With Lariat and Spur The chinook winds, as they are termed in America, are marked examples of the influence exerted by mountains on climatic conditions. North America 2011-05-05T02:00:20.027Z The chinook wind droned its spring song, and the bare boughs of the tree beside the cabin waved and creaked the time. North of Fifty-Three The same chinook winds that wafted Bill Ross and his rose-hued romances into town have winged them, and the memory of them, away. The Last Spike And Other Railroad Stories They had not heard the shot which Dorothy had fired at the bear, for the very sufficient reason that two bluffs intervened, and the fairly strong chinook wind carried away all sound. The Rising of the Red Man A Romance of the Louis Riel Rebellion We were sweeping across the tablelands adjoining the main divide of the Rocky Mountains like the chinook winds which sweep that majestic range on its western slope. The Log of a Cowboy A Narrative of the Old Trail Days Snow had fallen early and frozen upon the ground; the stockmen welcomed the "chinook wind" as the promise of a break in the hard weather. In Exile and Other Stories The first chinook wind that came from the west, through the passes of the Rockies from warm southern seas, would render travelling impossible—their sleighs would be useless. The Rising of the Red Man A Romance of the Louis Riel Rebellion The air was wonderfully mild, a soft chinook wind was blowing, and the snow was disappearing from the high ground as if by magic. The Rising of the Red Man A Romance of the Louis Riel Rebellion |
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