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roaring forties noun[ plural ] uk /ˌrɔː.rɪŋ ˈfɔː.tiz/ us /ˌrɔːr.ɪŋ ˈfɔːr.t̬iz/ the parts of the Atlantic Ocean about 40 degrees north of the Equator where there are often storms四十度西风带,咆哮西风带,中纬度西风带(大西洋中北纬约40度一带,常有暴风雨) SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Countries, nationalities & continents: continents & regions of the world Afrocentric Afrocentrism amazonian Antarctica Antipodean black Africa Caribbean interhemispheric Lapland LATAM Latin America longitude meridian parallel pole the Antipodes the International Date Line the South Pole the subtropics the Tropic of Cancer
Examples of roaring forties roaring forties In the latitude of the "roaringforties" the weather is uncertain. From Project Gutenberg The zone of the "variables," or that of the "roaringforties," is not to be depended upon long for sunshine and pleasant breezes. From Project Gutenberg These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |