Whirl
[wɜːl] or [wɝrl]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) confused movement; 'he was caught up in a whirl of work'; 'a commotion of people fought for the exits'.
(noun.) the shape of something rotating rapidly.
(verb.) fly around; 'The clothes tumbled in the dryer'; 'rising smoke whirled in the air'.
(verb.) cause to spin; 'spin a coin'.
艾米編輯--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To turn round rapidly; to cause to rotate with velocity; to make to revolve.
(v. t.) To remove or carry quickly with, or as with, a revolving motion; to snatch; to harry.
(v. i.) To be turned round rapidly; to move round with velocity; to revolve or rotate with great speed; to gyrate.
(v. i.) To move hastily or swiftly.
(v. t.) A turning with rapidity or velocity; rapid rotation or circumvolution; quick gyration; rapid or confusing motion; as, the whirl of a top; the whirl of a wheel.
(v. t.) Anything that moves with a whirling motion.
(v. t.) A revolving hook used in twisting, as the hooked spindle of a rope machine, to which the threads to be twisted are attached.
(v. t.) A whorl. See Whorl.
多拉編輯
同義詞及近義詞：
v. n. Twirl, revolve, rotate, spin.
v. a. Twirl, spin, wheel, turn round.
n. Gyration, rotation.
編輯:斯坦利
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Twirl, spin_round, gyrate,[See LASH]
卡里校對
解釋/意思:
n. a turning with rapidity: anything that turns with velocity.—v.i. to revolve rapidly.—v.t. to turn round rapidly: to carry away rapidly as on wheels.—ns. Whirl′-about′ anything that turns round rapidly; Whirl′-bat (obs.) the ancient cestus; Whirl′-blast a whirling blast of wind; Whirl′-bone the knee-cap; Whirl′er; Whirl′igig a child's toy which is spun or whirled rapidly round: a merry-go-round: anything that revolves rapidly: the water-beetle (Gyrinus): an ancient instrument of punishment consisting of a pivoted wooden cage in which the prisoner was spun round; Whirl′ing; Whirl′ing-der′vish one of an order of Mohammedan devotees who dance or spin round—the Mevlevis or dancing dervishes founded in 1273; Whirl′ing-tā′ble -machine′ a machine exhibiting the effects of centripetal and centrifugal forces: an instrument used by potters; Whirl′pool a circular current in a river or sea produced by opposing tides winds or currents: an eddy; Whirl′wind a violent aerial current with a whirling rotary or spiral motion and wild circling rush.
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例句/造句/用法:
- After a momentary whirl in the outer court-yard, the prison-door opened, and shut upon them. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Her mother came into the room before this whirl of thoughts was adjusted into anything like order. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- The air, entering, rises within, and carries up dust, leaves, and even heavier bodies that happen in its way, as the eddy or whirl passes over land. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- GLADIATORIAL After the fiasco of the proposal, Birkin had hurried blindly away from Beldover, in a whirl of fury. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- It was filled with so many new and wonderful things that his brain was in a whirl as he attempted to digest them all. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- I suppose the first mischief was done by the foreside of the whirl, the latter by the hinderside, their motion being contrary. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- He smiled at the whirl of metaphor with which he was trying to build up a defence against the influences of the last hour. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- There was hair upon the end, which blazed and shrunk into a light cinder, and, caught by the air, whirled up the chimney. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Stranger still, he whirled the girdle twice around his head, then released one end so that the leather strip flew out and the stone shot straight at a bird in the water. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The grating wind sawed rather than blew; and as it sawed, the sawdust whirled about the sawpit. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Rebecca did not rise from her attitude of misery until the door slammed upon him and his carriage whirled away. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- I felt the steel tear into my chest, all went black before me, my head whirled in dizziness, and I felt my knees giving beneath me. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- Once within the circle he whirled her round and round in a dance. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Haley whipped up the horse, and, with a steady, mournful look, fixed to the last on the old place, Tom was whirled away. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- The sun is a dizzying scarlet blaze, the sky a violet vortex whirling over me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Archer stammered, his brain whirling with the shock of the announcement. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- Face to face with the Englishman, however, he did not shirk the combat, but, whirling his sword with a fierce cry, dashed boldly at his enemy. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- Though he is stagnant in his cell, his connections without are whirling in the very vortex of life. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- She flung it into the fire, with a force that brought some of the glowing coals whirling out into the room. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- It is as if the storm-clouds within are moving like a whirling cyclone. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- His chief apparatus was a whirling table, sixty feet in diameter, and with an outside speed of seventy miles an hour. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- The instrument used in spinning was a large wheel, turned by hand, and setting in motion a set of whirls or revolving spindles, which twisted the hemp by their motion. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- A few, however, when we turn a telescope upon them, are seen to be whirls and clouds of shining vapour which we call nebul?. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- My head whirls, said he. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
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