whirlpools

英 [ˈwɜːlpuːlz]

美 [ˈwɜrlˌpulz]

n.  (河水或海水的)旋涡; 涡流浴缸; 涡流游泳池
whirlpool的复数

柯林斯词典

• 漩涡
  Awhirlpoolis a small area in a river or the sea where the water is moving quickly round and round, so that objects floating near it are pulled into its centre.
• N-COUNT (很多不愉快或复杂事情构成的)漩涡
  You can describe a situation in which a lot of unpleasant or complicated things are happening, and from which it is very difficult to escape, as awhirlpool.
  1. They felt they were being sucked into a whirlpool of publicity...
     他们觉得好像陷入了一个宣传的漩涡中。
  2. She became caught in a whirlpool of hate.
     她陷入了仇恨的漩涡。
• N-COUNT 涡旋浴池
  Awhirlpool bathor awhirlpoolis a bath that is specially designed so that the water moves round and round.
  1. ...a luxurious whirlpool bath with gold taps...
     有金制水龙头的豪华涡旋浴池
  2. There's also an outdoor whirlpool.
     那里也有一个室外的涡旋浴池。

双语例句

• Mariners who escaped the onslaught of the tsunami soon had to contend with another peril-the appearance of vast whirlpools off the coast of Japan.
  刚刚逃过滚滚而来的巨大海啸浪涛的船员还来不及喘息，就又将面对另一处险象环生的挑战&在日本近海岸线上出现的巨大漩涡。
• One theory was that this sandbank had blocked flowing waters and generated huge whirlpools that engulfed vessels.
  有专家认为，这个沙坝阻挡了席卷而来的水流，由此形成的巨大漩涡将船只无情倾没。
• So she passed quickly through the wood and the marsh, and between the rushing whirlpools.
  这样，她很快地就走过了森林、沼泽和激转的漩涡。
• Giant whirlpools, 100-knot winds, some of Europe's mightiest tides: The icy waters off Scotland's northern tip are no place for pleasure craft.
  巨型漩涡，100结风，是欧洲最强大的一些潮汐：关闭苏格兰北端的是没有发生游艇冰冷的水域。
• When I closed my eyes and concentrated, the music came to me as a series of whirlpools.
  每当我闭目凝神之时，便可以看见其旋律卷起若干漩涡。
• The new wrinkle, is that it can have whirlpools and fork into two rivers.
  而最新看法认为这条河流有可能形成漩涡，并分支成为两条河流。
• And then the little mermaid went out from her garden, and took the road to the foaming whirlpools, behind which the sorceress lived.
  小人鱼于是走出了花园，向一个掀起泡沫的漩涡走去巫婆就住在它的后面。
• And as you are moving down the river of space, sometimes, there are whirlpools that will drag you back to the reality thereby slowing you down.
  当你在空间河顺流而下的时候，有时候，会有些漩涡&它们将把你拖回现实，因此把你的速度慢下来。
• The spot where Javert was leaning was, it will be remembered, situated precisely over the rapids of the Seine, perpendicularly above that formidable spiral of whirlpools which loose and knot themselves again like an endless screw.
  沙威凭倚的地方，我们还记得，正在塞纳河急流的上方，可怕的漩涡笔直的就在它下面，漩涡旋开又旋紧，形成了一个无休止的螺旋形。
• Those whirlpools, I realize now, had a conceptual, abstract quality to them.
  那些漩涡当然是现在才这样想的具有观念的、抽象的性质。