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arctic/ balmy/ bleak/ blizzard/ break/ cyclone/ deluge/ dreary/ drizzle/ elements/ frigid/ gale/ glacial/ gust/ hazy/ hibernal/ hold/ hurricane/ inclement/ murky/ overcast/ spell/ sprinkle/ sultry/ swelter/ torrent/ torrid/ vernal
1. 某種天氣的「持續」，用動詞hold；持續一段時間後的「改變」，用動詞break，如果要表示某種天氣持續的「一段期間」，可用spell：
•The cold weather will hold for three more days, and then it will break.
•The weather bureau forecast that the rainy spell would be over within a few days.
2. 天氣「溫和的」、「宜人的」叫balmy；天候「惡劣的」用inclement（正式）。另外，在較為正式或文言的英文中，可用elements表示「壞天氣」：
•We felt fine when a balmy breeze brushed by.
•It's a balmy summer evening.
•Reading a good book in inclement weather is a delight.
•In spite of the terrible storm he walked on, quite regardless of the elements.
3. 「多雲的」、「烏雲密佈的」可用overcast，「有霧氣的」、「霧濛濛的」叫hazy，「陰沈的」可用dreary或murky（文言）：
•The overcast sky preceded a storm.
•In hazy weather, we cannot see the top of the mountain.
•The mountains were hazy in the distance.
•What a dreary day it is!
•The murky air retarded the traffic.
4. 「酷熱的」叫torrid，「悶熱的」叫sultry。假如指人「熱得難受」，用動詞swelter。不過，這種熱的情況通常是可以改善或甚至避免的：
•July and August are torrid months here.
•He could not adjust himself to the sultry climate of the tropics.
•As we cannot afford to buy an air conditioning unit, we have to swelter through another hot and humid summer.
•Open the window, we are sweltering.
5. 「陰冷的」、「寒冷的」可用bleak，如果強調酷寒，則用arctic、frigid 或glacial。另外，「暴風雪」叫blizzard：
•The weather in early December was bleak and unpleasant.
•This year they'll have a bleak winter.
•It is hard for the students from Taiwan to stand the arctic weather.
•Polar bears and penguins have thick furs to resist the arctic weather.
•The air on the mountain top was frigid.
•Alaska is in the frigid zone.
•They had a glacial winter in the States.
•Blizzard is impossible in tropical areas.
•Flights were canceled and schools closed because of the blizzard.
•Blizzard is expected this winter.
6. 「強風」叫gale，如果是突然的「陣風」則用gust：
•Hundreds of trees and fences were blown down in the gale.
•A gust of wind blew the door shut.
•A gust capsized the boat.
7. 「巨風」、「旋風」可用cyclone或hurricane：
•They turned pale upon hearing a cyclone nearby.
•The hurricane struck the coast early this summer.
8. 「下毛毛雨」叫drizzle或sprinkle；「暴雨」可用torrent；「豪雨」、「大洪水」或（正式）「為大洪水淹沒」可用deluge：
•I took off the raincoat because it was only drizzling.
•It's only sprinkling, so we can still take our walk.
•The drought was broken by a torrent.
•The spring deluge caused the river to overflow.
•The lowlands were completely deluged.
9. 「春天的」叫vernal（文言）；「冬天的」叫hibernal：
•Enjoy the vernal aspect of the fields and woods; it won't stay long.
•An array of vernal flowers greeted me as soon as I came to the countryside.
•I was fascinated with the beauty of hibernal snow.
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