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湖南理工学院 外语学院 郭建民 2011年2月;Hurricane;Similar storms occurring over the West Pacific Ocean and China Seas are called typhoons and those over the Indian Ocean are called tropical cyclones. Hurricane are given girls’ names and typhoons are given serial numbers. The National Weather Service of the United States has used girls’ names to identify hurricanes in the Atlantic, Caribbean, and Gulf of Mexico since 1953 and the names were given in alphabetical order such as Hurricane Alice, Hurricane Betsy ,Hurricane Camille. This practice of giving girls’ names to hurricane changed recently. In 1980