Herbert Saffir came up with his scale as a way to lay out what kind of damage an approaching storm would do.

赫伯特创建的飓风等级能对即将来袭的飓风将会造成的破坏程度做出判断。

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Those are the highest on the Saffir-Simpson scale. They can cause complete roof failure on most homes and buildings.

这是萨佛-辛普森等级的最高级别，会造成大部分房屋和建筑毁坏。

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A natural way to think of it would be analogous to the saffir-simpson hurricane scale that is based on maximum sustained wind speed.

一种自然的思考方式是比照基于最高持续风力的萨菲尔—辛曾森飓风等级。

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Scientists use the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale to measure the intensity of storms based on wind speed.

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The Saffir-Simpson Scale for ranking hurricanes is only a crude measure of their potential impacts.

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The Saffir-Simpson scale assigns a storm a number between 1 and 5, with "1" being a weak hurricane and "5" the strongest.

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Hurricanes are ranked 1 to 5 in intensity on the Saffir-Simpson scale.

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