Whirlwind
['wɜːlwɪnd] or ['wɝlwɪnd]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a more or less vertical column of air whirling around itself as it moves over the surface of the Earth.
乔伊手打--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A violent windstorm of limited extent, as the tornado, characterized by an inward spiral motion of the air with an upward current in the center; a vortex of air. It usually has a rapid progressive motion.
(n.) Fig.: A body of objects sweeping violently onward.
整理:马文
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To dream that you are in the path of a whirlwind, foretells that you are confronting a change which threatens to overwhelm you with loss and calamity. For a young woman to dream that she is caught in a whirlwind and has trouble to keep her skirts from blowing up and entangling her waist, denotes that she will carry on a secret flirtation and will be horrified to find that scandal has gotten possession of her name and she will run a close risk of disgrace and ostracism.
艾格尼丝編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- Fields, trees, and hedges, seemed to rush past them with the velocity of a whirlwind, so rapid was the pace at which they tore along. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Whenever I have seen you lately, you have been carried away by a whirlwind of some other person's making. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- Reaping the Whirlwind With a precursory sound of hurried breath and hurried feet, Mr Pancks rushed into Arthur Clennam's Counting-house. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- I will endeavour to explain my conceptions of this matter by figures, representing a plan and an elevation of a spout or whirlwind. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- You agree that the wind blows every way towards a whirlwind from a large space round. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- The terrible whirlwind which damaged a great part of Rome, June 11, 1749, happened in the night of that day. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- In figure 1, which is a plan or groundplat of a whirlwind, the circle V represents the central vacuum. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Thus, for different reasons, what was to the rest an exhilarating movement was to these two a riding upon the whirlwind. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- The whirlwind at Warrington continued long in Acrement Close. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- When the air descends with a violence in some places, it may rise with equal violence in others, and form both kinds of whirlwinds. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- He observes on a number of histories of whirlwinds, &c. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- So that in this particular, likewise, whirlwinds and water-spouts agree. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- It was a temperance song (whirlwinds of cheers). 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Whirlwinds and spouts are not always, though most commonly, in the daytime. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Thus these eddies may be whirlwinds at land, water-spouts at sea. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
編輯:摩尔