Hurricanes usually derive energy from moist air, and dry air can weaken or even stop a storm.

通常飓风由湿空气的能量所形成，而干空气将削弱风暴甚至使其消亡。

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I like to think of the tree itself: — first the close dry sensation of being wood; then the grinding of the storm; then the slow, delicious ooze of SAP.

我喜欢想像那棵树本身的情景：首先是它自身木质的细密干燥的感觉，然后想像它感受到雷雨的摧残；接下去就感到树液缓慢地、舒畅地一滴滴流出来。

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The computer simulations showed dry land could also have been exposed at two other nearby sites during a wind storm.

电脑的模拟演示也告知我们在风暴发生时这种情况亦可出现在附近的其他两个地方。

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People say the sound of thunder that sometimes carries over the dry land around the Pecos River is nothing more than Pecos Bill's family laughing up a storm.

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Now, after two months of dry weather, tropical storm Linfa has turned the situation on its head.

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That is due, in part, to the presence of a cool and dry air mass to the north and west of the tropical storm, said CNN meteorologist Sean Morris.

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Between 80 and 100 storm systems form each year as bodies of hot, dry air over the Sahara Desert, pick up moisture as they move out across the Atlantic.

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