whirlwinds

英 [ˈwɜːlwɪndz]

美 [ˈwɜrlˌwɪndz]

n.  旋风; 旋流; 一片忙乱
whirlwind的复数

柯林斯词典

• (陆地或海洋上的)旋风，旋流
  Awhirlwindis a tall column of air which spins round and round very fast and moves across the land or sea.
• N-COUNT 一连串的突发事件
  You can describe a situation in which a lot of things happen very quickly and are very difficult for someone to control as awhirlwind.
  1. I had been running around southern England in a whirlwind of activity...
     我一直奔忙于英格兰南部地区，疲于应对一连串的活动。
  2. He had been swept aside in the whirlwind of reform and anarchy.
     在改革和无政府状态交织的混乱风暴中，他被抛在了一边，没人理睬。
• ADJ 旋风般的;匆匆忙忙的;快速的
  Awhirlwindevent or action happens or is done much more quickly than normal.
  1. He got married after a whirlwind romance.
     在一场旋风式的恋爱后他很快就结婚了。
  2. ... a whirlwind tour of France.
     走马观花式的法国之旅

双语例句

• The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges.
  反抗的旋风将继续震撼我们国家的基石，直至光辉灿烂的正义之日来临。
• The feeling that you cannot survive such whirlwinds also arises from a consummation on a purely inner plane.
  你无法过下去的感觉就像旋风，也来自于一个纯粹的内部层面的之上的完满。
• So like Dorothy and Toto, we mentors are blown by whirlwinds of impending disaster into new territories where our presence naturally disrupts the status quo.
  因此就像Dorothy和Toto一样，我们咨询师就是被一阵灾难性的旋风卷到新的大陆，在那里我们的出现自然会导致现状的破坏。
• With Floods and Whirlwinds of tempestuous fire.
  有如洪水旋风般的狂暴的火焰；
• They base this belief upon the known effects that sunspots produce, and upon one astronomer's uncontested showing that sunspots are whirlwinds of electrified matter that burst out in pairs from the sun's interior.
  他们的这种观点是以已知的太阳黑子所产生的影响为基础的。同时科学家也毫无异议的证明太阳黑子的是从太阳内部爆发出来的成双成队的电化物质的旋风。
• Winds, clouds, whirlwinds, gusts, useless stars!
  风，云，漩流，狂飙，无用的群星！
• Normally, suction created by the whirlwinds removes a thin layer of light-colored dust from the Martian surface as the devils move, leaving behind dark lines.
  随着尘暴的移动，旋风产生的吸力通常会将火星表面上薄薄一层浅色的尘土卷起，留下一道道暗痕。
• But our views are blurred by the whirlwinds of markets, as firms and fortunes, the commercial "empires" of this era, are lost and made.
  但是，我们的目光由于市场旋风而变得模糊，企业和财富，这个时代的商业“帝国”，丧失和被创造。
• The stand alone ability Whirlwind had this bullet-proofing as part of the spell, but the new whirlwinds created as part of Bladestorm did not.
  “作为一部分，旋风斩不足的地方在于缺乏防御性。但是利刃风暴就不是这样”这句话翻译错了。
• These are fountains without water, and clouds tossed with whirlwinds, to whom the mist of darkness is reserved.
  他们像无水的泉源，又像为狂风所飘飏的云雾：为他们所存留的，是黑暗的幽冥。