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maelstrom

/meyl-struhm/US // ˈmeɪl strəm //UK // (ˈmeɪlstrəʊm) //

漩涡,大漩涡,漩涡效应,漩涡风暴

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a large, powerful, or violent whirlpool.
    • : a restless, disordered, or tumultuous state of affairs: the maelstrom of early morning traffic.
    • : a famous hazardous whirlpool off the NW coast of Norway.

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Examples

  • They suspected that one particular geometric trait might allow electrons to swirl into exotic maelstroms that behave in an entirely novel manner.

  • Facing the toxic maelstrom of the presidential election and many divisive state and local contests, teachers across the country find themselves rethinking how — or even whether — to provide lessons on America’s political selection process.

  • Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong started a maelstrom when he said his company would engage “minimally” around politics.

  • In the midst of a maelstrom, these technologies—among them social media, mobile apps, analytics, and cloud computing—help communities cope with the pandemic and learn crucial lessons.

  • Amid the maelstrom of negative news about the dangers of misinformation and the exploitation of private data, it’s easy to lose sight of how technology can help the greater cause.

  • And it merely delayed the apocalyptic maelstrom that followed rather than preventing it.

  • Within this maelstrom of mendacity lies an urgent film that dares to convey the black experience in America: Dear White People.

  • Ruffalo, who plays his brother, is great as the steady hand amid a maelstrom of emotion.

  • The blast was a stupefying white flash followed by a body-shaking howl, and it was the cue for a maelstrom of metallic shrieks.

  • I directed the 15th episode, which was right in the middle of a maelstrom of shooting and cutting The Divide.

  • He entered the army and went to India—that deadly maelstrom which has swallowed up so much of British youth and blood and beauty!

  • Courtiers of forty years' standing, and such I may write myself, are as far to seek in the matter as a minnow in the Maelstrom.

  • Back they would come at night, and the terrible, narrow maelstrom of pettiness sucked them in.

  • We would have learned no lesson from the war, but gained only the regret that it had involved us in its maelstrom of suffering.

  • Her voice trailed after her, for she was already backing off into the maelstrom with her arms cradled in Ten Eyck's arms.