thunder-stormsとは 意味・読み方・使い方

This light is, in fact, produced by a forty-zinc power of burning: it is a power that I can carry about in my hands, through these wires, at pleasure—although, if I applied it wrongly to myself, it would destroy me in an instant, for it is a most intense thing, and the power you see here put forth while you count five [bringing the poles in contact, and exhibiting the electric light] is equivalent to the power of several thunder-storms, so great is its force.発音を聞く 例文帳に追加

この光は実は、亜鉛を40枚重ねた燃焼力で生じたものです。このパワーを、電線を通じて気の向くままに持ち歩けるんですけれど、でもこれをうっかり自分にあてたりしたら、わたしは一瞬で死んでしまいます。こいつは実に強力なもので、ここでみんなが5つ数える間に目の前で出てきているパワーは [と両極を接触させて電気の光を示す] 雷嵐数個分にも相当するほどなんですよ。 - Michael Faraday『ロウソクの科学』