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正面 8175.spiral
英 ['spaɪr(ə)l]美 ['spaɪrəl]

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释义:
n. 螺旋;旋涡;螺旋形之物adj. 螺旋形的;盘旋的vt. 使成螺旋形;使作螺旋形上升vi. 盘旋;成螺旋形;螺旋形上升(过去式spiraled/spiralled,过去分词spiraled/spiralled,现在分词spiraling/spiralling,第三人称单数spirals,副词spirally)
例句:
1. The process is not a circle but rather a spiral.这个过程不是一个圆周运动而是螺旋上升型的。

1. 谐音“死掰螺”。
spiral 螺旋的,螺旋式的来自拉丁语 spipralis,旋转的,螺旋的,来自 spira,线圈,绕圈,来自 PIE*sper,转动,旋转, 可能来自 PIE*spen,弯,转,纺织,词源同 spider,spin.
spiralspiral: [16] Spiral comes via French spiral from medieval Latin spīrālis ‘coiled’, a derivative of Latin spīra. This in turn went back to Greek speira ‘coil’. English also acquired the noun, as spire [16], which is used for the ‘tip of a spiral shell’. It is not the same word as the spire of a church [OE], which originally meant ‘stalk, stem’, and may go back ultimately to the base *spī- (source of English spike ‘pointed flower head’ and spine). The spiraea [17] is etymologically the ‘coiled’ plant; and spiraea in turn was used to form the term aspirin.=> aspirin, spiraeaspiral (adj.)1550s, from Middle French spiral (16c.), from Medieval Latin spiralis "winding around a fixed center, coiling" (mid-13c.), from Latin spira "a coil, fold, twist, spiral," from Greek speira "a winding, a coil, twist, wreath, anything wound or coiled," from PIE *sper-ya-, from base *sper- (2) "to turn, twist." Related: Spirally. Spiral galaxy first attested 1913.spiral (v.)1726 (implied in spiraled), transitive, from spiral (n.). Intransitive use by 1834. Transferred and figurative sense by 1922. Related: Spiraling.spiral (n.)1650s, from spiral (adj.). U.S. football sense is from 1896. Figurative sense of "progressive movement in one direction" is by 1897. Of books, spiral-bound (adj.) is from 1937."

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