And now, like a thunderclap, had come this horrible news.

现在，好比晴天霹雳，这个可怕的消息突然降临。

Without thunderclaps, lightning bolts would be much less frightening, although the danger lies in the flash, not the noise.

但如果没有隆隆的轰击，也很少有人害怕。

Black and purple clouds were swirling across it, and as another thunderclap sounded outside, a fork of lightning flashed across it.

黑色和紫色的云团在翻滚，随着外起一阵雷声，一道状的闪电在天花过。

Suddenly the sky darkens. A thunderclap rings out.

眨眼间 天昏地暗 雷声作。

I would have been deeply interested in visiting this long, 360-league reef, against which the ever-surging sea broke with the fearsome intensity of thunderclaps.

我很想看一看这条长三百六十里的暗礁脉，暗礁脉常有波涛汹涌的海水冲击，奔腾澎湃，十分凶猛，好像隆隆的雷声。

Eula-Beulah had a wonderful sense of humor, even at four I could recognize that, but it was a dangerous sense of humor—there seemed to be a potential thunderclap hidden inside each hand-patting, butt-rocking, head-tossing outburst of glee.

尤拉碧欧拉非常有幽默感，即便当时我只有四岁，也能看出这一点，可她的幽默感很危险——仿佛她每一阵拍手摆臀甩头的大笑之中都藏有一声霹雳雷霆。