maelstrom 的定义
- 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.
maelstrom 近义词
agitation
whirlpool
更多maelstrom例句
- 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.