| 单词 | harmattan |
| 例句 | Outside, the harmattan wind tore across the front yard, ruffling the plants in the circular garden, bending the will and branches of trees, coating the parked cars with more dust. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z “I’m fine, Father. It’s only my allergies because of the weather, you know, the clash of harmattan and rainy season.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z The building was old; I could tell from the color and from the windows, coated with the dust of so many harmattans that they would never shine again. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z The colors of his face, the colors of condensed milk and a cut-open soursop, had not tanned at all in the fierce heat of seven Nigerian harmattans. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Aunty Ifeoma stopped to pluck at some browned leaves in the garden as we walked to the car, muttering that the harmattan was killing her plants. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z It was harmattan, but because they feared the thunderstorms, they covered the ditches with tarpaulins spread across bamboo sticks. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The louvers, too, had been slipped off and the windows were gaping holes and the dry harmattan winds had blown in so much dust that the walls were now an even brown. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z It rained heavily the day Ade Coker died, a strange, furious rain in the middle of the parched harmattan. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z I laughed because Nsukka s untarred roads coat cars with dust in the harmattan and with sticky mud in the rainy season. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z We replaced the curtains every year, toward the end of harmattan. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Her skin, usually the smooth brown of groundnut paste, looked like the liquid had been sucked out of it, ashen, like the color of cracked harmattan soil. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z The new harmattan winds blew dust everywhere, and Baby joined the thin children who ran around with their naked bellies wreathed in brown. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I would snuggle into Papa’s arms when harmattan thunderstorms raged outside, flinging mangoes against the window netting and making the electric wires hit each other and spark bright orange flames. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Our furniture was lifeless: the glass tables did not shed twisted skin in the harmattan, the leather sofas’ greeting was a clammy coldness, the Persian rugs were too lush to have any feeling. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z In Lagos, the harmattan was a mere veil of haze, but in Nsukka, it was a raging, mercurial presence; the mornings were crisp, the afternoons ashen with heat, and the nights unknown. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z He felt as though his bones were broomsticks, the kind that snapped easily during the harmattan. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I was walking to my uncle's house on a road baked and cracked by the harmattan. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Facts are stranger than fiction 2013-04-19T17:29:01Z We’ll have the silvery sea that is imperceptible from its upstairs neighbor, the sky — especially when the dry, dusty winds of the harmattan season are blowing. At Dakar’s Biennale, the City Itself Is the Most Colorful Canvas 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z Desert winds known as the harmattan set records, blowing at more than 70 kilometers per hour across northwest Africa. ‘Godzilla’ dust storm traced to shaky northern jet stream 2020-12-07T05:00:00Z Farmers said more rainfall mixed with sunny spells was needed before the arrival of December’s dry harmattan winds for next year’s harvest to develop well. Ivory Coast cocoa farmers hope for more sunny days 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z “The actual fundamentals in cocoa were extraordinarily bullish in January 2016. We were forecasting the largest harmattan in history, which is exactly what happened,” he said. Data overload: commodity hedge funds close as computers dominate 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z There is no horizon, just a haze of sand whipped up by the hot, harmattan winds blowing from the Sahara Desert. Hunger amplifies infectious diseases for millions fleeing the violence of Boko Haram 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z It was a cold and dry harmattan morning in December. Female Circumcision Must Be Replaced With More Empowering Practices 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z Experts are now fiercely debating what will happen when the harmattan winds return to Africa’s so-called meningitis belt, which stretches from the Atlantic Coast to Ethiopia. New Meningitis Strain in Africa Brings Call for More Vaccines 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z Near the sea the average temperature is about 80� F. The harmattan prevails for several days in succession, and alternates with winds from the south and south-west. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" 2012-02-11T03:03:39.807Z “The actual fundamentals in cocoa were extraordinarily bullish in January 2016. We were forecasting the largest harmattan in history, which is exactly what happened,” he said. Data overload: commodity hedge funds close as computers dominate 2018-02-12T05:00:00Z From the end of December to March the dry harmattan wind blows from the Sahara. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" 2011-10-31T02:00:28.703Z The mean temperature in the dry season, when the “harmattan” is frequent, is 62� Fahr., in the wet season 86�. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" 2011-10-22T02:00:29.487Z To be effective, they must be shipped and injected before January, when meningitis normally returns to Africa with the dry harmattan winds. New Meningitis Strain in Africa Brings Call for More Vaccines 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z The dry east wind known as the harmattan blows intermittently from December to March. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 4 "G" to "Gaskell, Elizabeth" 2011-08-24T02:00:20.690Z Experts say this is harmattan, but many of us have lived long enough in this country to know that harmattan does not come biting in March and April. In the dark 2010-04-07T07:06:00Z Those storms which are accompanied with a clear sky, as the northers of the Gulf of Mexico, the harmattan of Africa, &c. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. The constant yellow and reddish colour of the dust, produced by ferruginous matter, its falling with the trade-winds and not with the harmattan, increase the interest of the phenomena.' Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 432 Volume 17, New Series, April 10, 1852 The harmattan has also the effect of drying up the skin of the natives in a very extraordinary manner. Lander's Travels The Travels of Richard Lander into the Interior of Africa About this period is commonly felt the harmattan, a dry and parching wind, blowing from the north-east, and accompanied by a thick smoky haze, through which the sun appears of a dull red colour. Life and Travels of Mungo Park in Central Africa While the harmattan lasts, the dryness in the atmosphere produces an unpleasant feeling, although it is said not to be injurious to health. Lander's Travels The Travels of Richard Lander into the Interior of Africa The harmattan is said not to extend to the southward of Fernando Po, but this has not yet been fully ascertained. Lander's Travels The Travels of Richard Lander into the Interior of Africa |
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