| 英语单词 | whirlpool |
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| 英美音标 | 英 ['wɜːlpuːl] 美 ['wɜːrlpuːl] |
| 中文释义 | n.漩涡 Whirlpool. n.惠尔普(美国电子电气公司) |
| 英语例句 | (1) The canoe was sucked (down) into the whirlpool. (2) The child dropped into the whirlpool from the ship. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 那独木舟卷进漩涡里了。 (2) 小孩从船上掉进了漩涡。 |
| vocabulary简明 | When two water currents meet, they sometimes form a swirling, circular whirlpool. There are some small but very strong whirlpools at the bottom of Niagara Falls. |
| vocabulary扩展 | The way water moves in a circle as it drains out of your bathtub is a smaller version of what a whirlpool looks like in a large body of water. Whirlpools can be dangerous for swimmers and small boats, although larger ships aren't at any real risk of being sucked into a whirlpool, even a particularly large and powerful one — which can also be called a maelstrom. |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [N-COUNT 可数名词]漩涡 A whirlpool is 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. 2 [N-COUNT 可数名词](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 a whirlpool . [usu sing]
3 [N-COUNT 可数名词]涡旋浴池 A whirlpool bath or a whirlpool is a bath that is specially designed so that the water moves round and round. [usu N n]
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