Question

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Several regions in the world are subject to storms which are so severe that they
cause damage on a tremendous scale. The regions are all located on the edges of great oceans. The general term for such severe storms is ‘cyclone’. The term ‘hurricane’ is defined for storms that occur in the North Atlantic Ocean.

Cyclones(龙卷风) and hurricanes(飓风) differ in one curious way : in a cyclone, the wind circulates in a clockwise direction; in a hurricane, the wind direction is counter-clockwise.But cyclones and hurricanes have one ominous similarity. In terms of the damage they cause on land and at sea, they are identical.
Australia undergoes a number of cyclones every year along its northern coast, which faces Indonesia. The cyclones occur mainly in December and January, the summer months in the southern hemisphere.
Usually the Australian cyclones don’t cause great damage because Australia’s northern territory has vast empty regions that are virtually unpopulated .There are few coastal cities. When a cyclone does move inland from the sea, it usually blows itself out without striking any inhabited area.However in 1917 the small city of Townville was severely devastated by a cyclone. There was a public outcry about it. People demand an adequate warning system. Ever since then the meteorological bureau has regularly issued alarms in advance of every serious cyclone.

Answer 1

在世界上某些地区，风暴会造成巨大的破坏。这些地区无一例外的处在大洋的边缘。具有如此威力的风暴被命名为“龙卷风”。“飓风”这个词被定义为北大西洋的风暴。
龙卷风和飓风有一个很有趣的不同：在龙卷风里，风是按照顺时针方向运的；而在飓风里，风则是按照逆时针方向运动的。但是他们有一个共同的特征，就是在大地和海洋上的破坏力都是相同的。
澳大利亚面对印度尼西亚的北部海岸每年都会经历几次龙卷风。它们主要发生在12月和1月，也就是南半球的夏季。
通常澳大利亚的飓风不会造成严重的破坏，因为澳大利亚北领地是广阔而人烟稀少的。海岸城市的数量很少。当龙卷风从内陆向海洋移动时，它通常不会经过有人居住的地区。然而，在1917年，一个名为Townville（不知道中文名叫什么）的小城曾经遭受过龙卷风的严重破坏。这次事件震惊了广大民众。他们需要足够的预警系统来预报这样的灾害。之后市政局会在每次大型龙卷风来袭之前进行预警。