CNN News: 風(fēng)暴的名字由來

What`s in a Hurricane`s Name?

颶風(fēng)的名字從何而來?

GRAY: The military started naming storms after their wives, their girlfriends, but none of these names were made public.

軍人曾以自己的妻子、女友的名字為颶風(fēng)命名，但這些名字從未公諸于眾。

So, 1950, everything changed. Several storms formed out in the Atlantic about the same time, it created a lot of confusion. So, the U.S. Weather Bureau said, OK, let`s start naming storms.

但在1950年，一切都變了。數(shù)場風(fēng)暴到大西洋同時形成，這給人們帶了了諸多疑惑。所以，美國氣象局表示，要為這些風(fēng)暴命名。

And they actually started by using the World War II alphabet, Able, Baker, Charlie, Dog, Easy. But this created confusion as well, because every year, the storm names were the same.

之后，他們開始使用二戰(zhàn)字母表中的開頭字母單詞命名.但是這同樣也給人們帶來了困惑.因為每年的風(fēng)暴名字都是一樣的.

It wasn`t until 1979 that we started alternating male and female names. We recycle that list every six years. In the Atlantic Basin, we use English, Spanish and French names.

直到1979年, 才開始交替使用男性和女性的名字.名單表每六年循環(huán)一次.在大西洋海盆, 則使用英語、西班牙語和法語名字。

No storms are named after a particular person. In fact, you can`t request a storm to be named after you. That entire process is handled by the World Meteorological Organization.

沒有任何風(fēng)暴的名字是以特定的人名命名。而實際上，你也不能要求某個風(fēng)暴根據(jù)你的名字命名。因為整個命名過程是由世界氣象組織管理。

A storm name will be retired if it is too costly or deadly and it would be inappropriate to use it in future years. In fact, since 1950, there had been nearly 80 storm names retired.

若風(fēng)暴的名字需付出較高代價或者有致命的含義，在未來，則將不會使用。事實上，自從1950年，有將近80個風(fēng)暴的名字不再使用。

And what happens if we go through all of the storm names? Well, it happened in 2005. We ended up going to the Greek alphabet.

如果我們將所有風(fēng)暴的名字都瀏覽一遍會怎么樣呢?而在2005年，我們將風(fēng)暴的名字轉(zhuǎn)向了希臘字母。

So, that`s what`s in a name. It took a long time to get here, but just like each individual name, each storm tends to have its own personality.

所以，這就是名字的由來。它耗費了人們很長的事件，但是就像每一個一樣，每一種風(fēng)暴都是有自己的特性的。