英语单词:chinook

意思翻译

chinook

noun [ C ] uk/tʃɪˈnʊk/ us/ʃɪˈnʊk/

(WIND)

(also chinook wind)奇努克风（从北美洲西部高山向东吹向平原的干燥暖风）

a warm, dry wind that blows from the mountains over the flatter land to the east in western North America

Colorado often gets particularly hard hit by chinooks. 科罗拉多经常受到奇努克风的严重影响。

The famous chinook wind blows constantly off the Rockies right across this patch of southern Alberta. 为人所熟知的奇努克风不断从落基山脉吹过这片南亚伯达的土地。 More examples

It is a chinook, a wind that races down the eastern slopes of the Rockies.

In Colorado the wind is called a chinook, blowing off the mountains.

A Canadian study recently demonstrated a link between chinooks and the onset of migraines.