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eddy

/ed-ee/US // ˈɛd i //UK // (ˈɛdɪ) //

漩涡,涡流,涡旋,涡阳

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n.名词 noun
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    plural ed·dies.

    • : a current at variance with the main current in a stream of liquid or gas, especially one having a rotary or whirling motion.
    • : a small whirlpool.
    • : any similar current, as of air, dust, or fog.
    • : a current or trend, as of opinion or events, running counter to the main current.
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    ed·died, ed·dy·ing.

    • : to move or whirl in eddies.

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Examples

  • Growing up, Eddy often cut through Oaklawn Cemetery on his way to his aunt’s house.

  • Returning to Oaklawn in his 80s, Eddy showed investigators where he’d seen the trench as a boy.

  • We like to think of Quartz as an eddy in that river of news, a spot of relative calm where you’ll find only the most important and interesting stuff.

  • “Given the projected pollution for the Permian Basin, it is quite literally a global climate bomb that will lead us to catastrophe if we fail to adjust our trajectory away from fossil fuels,” Eddy said.

  • Four years later, as a junior in college, after a morning swirling in yet another eddy of food-obsessed thoughts, I finally reached a breaking point.

  • Now 18, Ammons was a friend of Skylar Neese and a friend of one of her killers, Shelia Eddy.

  • Jean François Bruel, executive chef at Daniel, and Eddy Leroux, chef de cuisine, in particular.

  • This hurly-burly,” said he, drawing her into a quiet eddy of the stream, “is no place for the communion of two twin souls.

  • A dangerous eddy was barely avoided, but beyond and directly in their path a ragged rock appeared.

  • This family had an immense capacity for disapproval; it was awful, as Eddy had observed, for not liking people.

  • He felt himself caught in a mighty eddy, bearing he knew not whither; he, one wavelet amid the sea's myriads.

  • Well, I can—look at that bend where the round pebbles are collected so; there was a strong eddy there.