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单词 roaring forties
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roaring fortiesn.

Brit. /ˌrɔːrɪŋ ˈfɔːtɪz/, U.S. /ˌrɔrɪŋ ˈfɔrdiz/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: roaring adj., forty n.
Etymology: < roaring adj. + the plural of forty n., so called on account of the howling of the wind. In sense 2 punningly after sense 1.
1. Nautical. Stormy ocean tracts that occur between latitudes 40° and 50° south, where the prevailing wind blows strongly from the west, unimpeded by continental land masses; (sometimes also) that part of the Atlantic Ocean between 40° and 50° north latitude. Occasionally applied to the winds themselves.
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the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > specific seas > [noun] > Atlantic Ocean > roaring Forties
Long Forties1776
roaring forties1841
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [noun] > global system > specific winds of
trade wind1652
westerly1845
variable1846
anti-trade wind1853
brave west winds1883
counter-trade1917
roaring forties1953
1841 United Service Jrnl. Sept. 68 It is..the most southerly of the New Zealand islands... They come within the limits of what the sailors call ‘the roaring forties’, (40° of latitude), which always furnish a larger share of both wind and rain.
1883 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 146/2 The region of the ‘brave west winds’, the ‘roaring forties’ of sailors.
1893 J. A. Barry Steve Brown's Bunyip 165 Older shipmasters laughed..saying that they found the Roaring Forties quite strong enough for them.
1953 A. A. Miller Climatol. (ed. 8) xi. 199 In the southern hemisphere the disturbance of the planetary winds is much less; ‘Roaring Forties’ and the ‘Brave West Winds’ blow all the year round with considerable force.
1966 F. Chichester in Sunday Times 30 Oct. 3/6 Twice I have entered the Roaring Forties and been driven out by gales and squalls.
2002 D. Lundy Way of Ship (2003) v. 162 In the roaring forties and the furious fifties, around the Horn itself, the sky was cloudy most of the time.
2. figurative.
a. The fifth decade of life, esp. regarded as a period of vigour and activity.
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the world > life > source or principle of life > age > [noun] > specific age
yearOE
scorea1400
seventeena1568
threescorea1616
jubileea1640
military age1656
legal age1658
tecnogoniaa1676
sixty1717
forty1732
fifty1738
seven-year-old1762
teen1789
septuagenarianism1824
sexagenarianism1824
day-old1831
seventeen-year-old1858
centenarianism1863
roaring forties1867
twenties1874
leaving age1875
school-leaving age1881
octogenarianism1883
reading age1906
three1909
teenage1912
eleven-plus1937
1867 Harper's Mag. Sept. 509/2 A very pretty woman, whose bark of life had not as yet drifted into the ‘roaring forties’.
1901 M. Hewlett New Canterbury Tales i. 5 He had been eight years younger!—still, as he expressed it, in his roaring forties.
1930 H. K. Pasma Close-Hauled ii. 211 I am in my roaring forties now.
1987 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 25 Feb. (Features section) 15 I am a writer in my roaring forties... If you're about my age, relaxed,..intelligent,..I'd like to meet you.
2009 Sunday Life (Nexis) Feb. 12 (title) The Roaring Forties!; Surveys show that women in their 40s are having the best sex of their lives.
b. Nautical slang (with pun on sense 1). Treated as singular: a naval commander aged between 40 and 50, esp. one who ‘roars’ commands. Now rare.
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society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > seafaring warrior or naval man > leader or commander > [noun] > naval officer > officers by personality
tarpaulinc1690
x-chaser1904
man-eater1929
boffin1941
roaring forties1948
1948 E. Partridge et al. Dict. Forces' Slang 156 Roaring forties, Lieutenant Commanders between 40 and 50 years of age.
1962 W. Granville Dict. Sailors' Slang 96/2 Roaring forties..a slang name for certain taut-handed lieut-commanders in their forties, who are always roaring up the hands.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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