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Ni·ño 英ˈniːnjəʊ美ˈninjoAHDnēnʹyō BNC⁴⁶⁴⁴¹
例句
EL NIÑO, a periodic sloshing of warm water from west to east across the Pacific, gets its name—“ the boy child”— because it is around Christmas that it warms the water off Peru.
厄尔尼诺现象是指太平洋暖流定期自西向东扫过太平洋的现象，绰号—“小男孩”—因为他会在圣诞期间使秘鲁附近海域的海水变暖。 ecocn
El Niño's female counterpart, La Niña—a cooler sloshing from east to west— is less well known, and less frequent.
不过与厄尔尼诺相对的一位异性同伴，拉尼娜—太平洋寒流定期自东向西的流动—就不是那么出名了，活动也不是那么频繁。 ecocn
La Niña rainfall patterns souped up with post-El- Niño heat help explain why the Pakistan floods were so devastating, says Kevin Trenberth of America's National Centre for Atmospheric Research.
美国大气国家研究中心的凯文钱伯斯Kevin Trenberth称，经由厄尔尼诺热流加强的拉尼娜暴雨可以帮助我们解释为何巴基斯坦水灾会具有如此的破坏性。 ecocn
The Niño effect he found seems to hold up even when statistics are used to remove the direct influence on local rainfall and temperature, which was what the African study dealt with.
他发现，即使用统计学移除了当地降雨和气温的直接影响亦即前述非洲研究所处理的关系，厄尔尼诺效应似乎仍然成立。 ecocn |