A volcanic island of Indonesia between Sumatra and Java. A violent explosion in August1883 blew the island apart and caused a tidal wave that killed more than36,000 people. 喀拉喀托火山位于苏门答腊和爪哇之间的一个火山岛。1883年8月,该岛火山的一次猛烈的喷发使该岛裂开,并引发了一场使36,000多人丧生的海啸
A gust of wind blew the door shut. 一阵大风吹来,把门关上了。
The pitiless north wind blew for weeks. 凛冽的北风一连刮了几个星期。
Blow \Blow\ (bl[=o]), v. i. [imp. {Blew} (bl[=u]); p. p. {Blown} (bl[=o]n); p. pr. & vb. n. {Blowing}.] [OE. blowen, AS. bl[=o]wan to blossom; akin to OS. bl[=o]jan, D. bloeijen, OHG. pluojan, MHG. bl["u]ejen, G. bl["u]hen, L. florere to flourish, OIr. blath blossom. Cf. {Blow} to puff, {Flourish}.] To flower; to blossom; to bloom.
How blows the citron grove. --Milton.
Blow \Blow\, v. i. [imp. {Blew} (bl[=u]); p. p. {Blown} (bl[=o]n); p. pr. & vb. n. {Blowing}.] [OE. blawen, blowen, AS. bl[=a]wan to blow, as wind; akin to OHG. pl[=a]jan, G. bl["a]hen, to blow up, swell, L. flare to blow, Gr. 'ekflai`nein to spout out, and to E. bladder, blast, inflate, etc., and perh. blow to bloom.] 1. To produce a current of air; to move, as air, esp. to move rapidly or with power; as, the wind blows.
Hark how it rains and blows ! --Walton.
2. To send forth a forcible current of air, as from the mouth or from a pair of bellows.
3. To breathe hard or quick; to pant; to puff.
Here is Mistress Page at the door, sweating and blowing. --Shak.
4. To sound on being blown into, as a trumpet.
There let the pealing organ blow. --Milton.
5. To spout water, etc., from the blowholes, as a whale.
6. To be carried or moved by the wind; as, the dust blows in from the street.
The grass blows from their graves to thy own. --M. Arnold.
7. To talk loudly; to boast; to storm. [Colloq.]
You blow behind my back, but dare not say anything to my face. --Bartlett.
8. To stop functioning due to a failure in an electrical circuit, especially on which breaks the circuit; sometimes used with out; -- used of light bulbs, electronic components, fuses; as, the dome light in the car blew out. [PJC]
9. To deflate by sudden loss of air; usually used with out; -- of inflatable tires. [PJC]
{To blow hot and cold} (a saying derived from a fable of [AE]sop's), to favor a thing at one time and treat it coldly at another; or to appear both to favor and to oppose.
{To blow off}, to let steam escape through a passage provided for the purpose; as, the engine or steamer is blowing off.
{To blow out}. (a) To be driven out by the expansive force of a gas or vapor; as, a steam cock or valve sometimes blows out. (b) To talk violently or abusively. [Low]
{To blow over}, to pass away without effect; to cease, or be dissipated; as, the storm and the clouds have blown over.
{To blow up}, to be torn to pieces and thrown into the air as by an explosion of powder or gas or the expansive force of steam; to burst; to explode; as, a powder mill or steam boiler blows up. ``The enemy's magazines blew up.'' --Tatler.
Blew \Blew\, imp. of {Blow}.
A tornado blew over a mobile home and tore the roofs off some other buildings in Point Harbor, but no injuries were reported, the weather service said.
The balloons had reflective "terror eyes" stuck on, but the balloons blew away in wind storms and the approach was abandoned.
The explosion merely singed the carpet, nicked a desk, blew a few holes in the ceiling and loosened marble counter panels.
Soldiers blew down the door of his home with a bazooka and a federal agent was shot to death in the ensuing gunbattle.
Two other Palestinians died in explosions in the West Bank, including a 12-year-old boy who picked up an unidentified object that blew up, the army said.
Strong winds blew across the eastern slopes of the Rockies in Montana, and Santa Ana winds whipped through Southern California today as rain fell across much of the rest of the nation.
The vessel was loaded with ammonia nitrate fertilizer. The next day, another fertilizer-laden ship, the High Flyer, also blew up.
The first of two power lines that feed the airport blew at 11:53 a.m., causing some areas to lose power.
Strong northwest winds also blew through the Southeast.
Slashing across Florida's midsection from coast to coast, Tropical Storm Keith blew northward into the Atlantic on Wednesday, leaving damaged homes, eroded beaches and up to 6 inches of rain.
But he boasted about the first Arab atom bomb and the Israelis blew up his reactor in 1981.
Customs agents detected what they thought was a bomb in a suitcase headed for a Colombian airliner Wednesday and a bomb squad blew it up, but analysis of the debris revealed the luggage contained a video game.
Experts blew up the bomb.
He said the concussion blew him off his seat, and slag shattered his crane window.
They then blew up a telecommunications office.
But public interest faded, shuttle launches stopped being a big deal, and when Challenger blew up on that freezing day in 1986, the journalists at the launch site could be counted in the hundreds. Television networks had long stopped watching.
In another development, leftist guerrillas blew up Colombia's main oil pipeline for the sixth time this year in an effort to force the government to nationalize U.S. and other foreign oil holdings.
In Patiala, a powerful bomb blew up in a soda water factory in front of the district court building, killing three Hindus and injuring one.
The bomb nearly blew off Breaux' foot as he was entering the car, but he underwent massive reconstructive surgery and is recovering. Leche was less severly injured.
The bombing at the Capitol blew a hole in the wall outside the Senate chamber.
Cincinnati's worst happened in 1838 when the Moselle blew its boilers trying to overtake the Tribune.
The drive was organized by Joyce Wrend, who was among the 1,000 mourners at the church service for Wendy Lincoln, a Syracuse University student on her way home from London for Christmas when the plane blew up.
It all blew up" yesterday.
When the shuttle blew up, "It was difficult for a journalist to know what to do," recalls Michael Pride, editor of the Concord Monitor.
Southwest winds over the Central Plains blew up to 43 mph at Russell, Kan., Thursday morning with visibilities briefly as low as 4 miles in blowing dust.
In a three-day run across the islands, the storm whipped up huge seas that washed away homes and its fierce winds uprooted palm trees and blew off roofs.
U.S. Attorney John Volz says former sheriff Cyrus "Bobby" Tardo, 58, twice defeated for office by Breaux, hired a crew of former law officers and their associates to set a pipe bomb that almost blew Breaux's foot off 10 days before Christmas.
It lighted here and lighted there, but for most of the time it blew first in one direction and then another, barely staying put long enough to make an impression of any kind.
Asked whether the explosive-sniffer could have detected the bomb hidden in a radio-cassette player which blew the Boeing 747 airliner apart, Farrar said: "We are confident it could have caught it." ATA's Neale was not so sure.
In Dublin, police said they were investigating a suspected letter bomb blast overnight at the city's central mail sorting office which blew a hole in the wooden floor and slightly injured two postal workers.