CNN News: 风暴的名字由来

What`s in a Hurricane`s Name?

飓风的名字从何而来?

GRAY: The military started naming storms after their wives, their girlfriends, but none of these names were made public.

军人曾以自己的妻子、女友的名字为飓风命名，但这些名字从未公诸于众。

So, 1950, everything changed. Several storms formed out in the Atlantic about the same time, it created a lot of confusion. So, the U.S. Weather Bureau said, OK, let`s start naming storms.

但在1950年，一切都变了。数场风暴到大西洋同时形成，这给人们带了了诸多疑惑。所以，美国气象局表示，要为这些风暴命名。

And they actually started by using the World War II alphabet, Able, Baker, Charlie, Dog, Easy. But this created confusion as well, because every year, the storm names were the same.

之后，他们开始使用二战字母表中的开头字母单词命名.但是这同样也给人们带来了困惑.因为每年的风暴名字都是一样的.

It wasn`t until 1979 that we started alternating male and female names. We recycle that list every six years. In the Atlantic Basin, we use English, Spanish and French names.

直到1979年, 才开始交替使用男性和女性的名字.名单表每六年循环一次.在大西洋海盆, 则使用英语、西班牙语和法语名字。

No storms are named after a particular person. In fact, you can`t request a storm to be named after you. That entire process is handled by the World Meteorological Organization.

没有任何风暴的名字是以特定的人名命名。而实际上，你也不能要求某个风暴根据你的名字命名。因为整个命名过程是由世界气象组织管理。

A storm name will be retired if it is too costly or deadly and it would be inappropriate to use it in future years. In fact, since 1950, there had been nearly 80 storm names retired.

若风暴的名字需付出较高代价或者有致命的含义，在未来，则将不会使用。事实上，自从1950年，有将近80个风暴的名字不再使用。

And what happens if we go through all of the storm names? Well, it happened in 2005. We ended up going to the Greek alphabet.

如果我们将所有风暴的名字都浏览一遍会怎么样呢?而在2005年，我们将风暴的名字转向了希腊字母。

So, that`s what`s in a name. It took a long time to get here, but just like each individual name, each storm tends to have its own personality.

所以，这就是名字的由来。它耗费了人们很长的事件，但是就像每一个一样，每一种风暴都是有自己的特性的。