• n. [氣象] 大風(fēng)，狂風(fēng)；（突發(fā)的）一陣
• n. (Gale)人名；(西、葡、塞)加萊；(緬)格禮；(英)蓋爾

來自PIE*ghel, 呼喊，尖叫，詞源同 yell, nightingale. 用來指大風(fēng)。

gale

gale: [16] Gale is a puzzling word. An isolated early example of what appears to be the word, in the phrase gale wind (‘Our life like smoke or chaff is carried away as with a gale wind’, Zachary Boyd, The Last Battle 1619), suggests that it may originally have been an adjective. If this is so, a possible candidate as a source may be Norwegian galen ‘bad’ – making gale etymologically a ‘bad wind’. The Norwegian adjective in turn may go back to Old Norse galinn ‘bewitched, enchanted’, a derivative of galo ‘sing, bewitch, enchant’ (source of English yell and related to the final syllable of nightingale).
=> nightingale, yell

gale (n.)

"strong wind," especially at sea, 1540s, from gaile "wind," origin uncertain. Perhaps from Old Norse gol "breeze," or Old Danish gal "bad, furious" (often used of weather), which are related to Old Norse galinn "furious, mad, frantic; enchanted, bewitched," from gala "to sing, chant," the wind so called from its raging or on the notion of being raised by spells (but OED finds reason to doubt this). Or perhaps it is named for the sound, from Old English galan "to sing," or giellan "to yell." The Old Norse and Old English words all are from the source of yell (v.). In nautical use, between a stiff breeze and a storm; in technical meteorological use, a wind between 32 and 63 miles per hour.

1. A gale was blowing and the sea was choppy.

狂風(fēng)大作，海面上波浪起伏。

來自柯林斯例句

2. The wind was still rising, approach-ing a force nine gale.

風(fēng)力仍在增強(qiáng)，接近9級大風(fēng)。

來自柯林斯例句

3. In a severe gale the ship split in two.

在一次大風(fēng)中，船斷成了兩截。

來自柯林斯例句

4. Sometimes happiness is just a matter of attitude adjustment.--Susan Gale

有時(shí)候，幸福只需轉(zhuǎn)變一下自己的態(tài)度。

來自金山詞霸 每日一句

5. It sank in a howling gale.

它在呼嘯的狂風(fēng)中沉沒了。

來自柯林斯例句