Whirlpool



GRE

解释

GRE 红宝书

• n. 漩涡
• ［英］ n. 漩涡 ( a place with circular currents of water in a sea )
• ［类］ tornado : air / whirlpool : water ( 龙卷风是空气回流 / 旋涡是水回流)

Webster Collegiate

noun

• Date: 1529
• 1.
  • a. a confused tumult and bustle ; whirl
  • b. a magnetic or impelling force by which something may be engulfed <refusing to be drawn into this whirlpool of intrigue — A. D. White>
• 2.
  • a. water moving rapidly in a circle so as to produce a depression in the center into which floating objects may be drawn ; eddy, vortex
  • b. whirlpool bath

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