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whirled

/wurl, hwurl/US // wɜrl, ʰwɜrl //UK // (wɜːl) //

呼啸而过,旋转的,呼啸而过的,旋即

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to turn around, spin, or rotate rapidly: The merry-go-round whirled noisily.
    • : to turn about or aside quickly: He whirled and faced his pursuers.
    • : to move, travel, or be carried rapidly along: She whirled along the freeway in her new car.
    • : to feel as though spinning rapidly; reel as from dizziness: My head began to whirl.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to cause to turn around, spin, or rotate rapidly.
    • : to send, drive, or carry in a circular or curving course.
    • : to drive, send, or carry along with great or dizzying rapidity.
    • : Obsolete. to hurl.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of whirling; rapid rotation or gyration.
    • : a whirling movement; quick turn or swing.
    • : a short drive, run, walk, or the like; spin.
    • : something that whirls; a whirling current or mass.
    • : a rapid round of events, affairs, etc.: a whirl of meetings, conferences, and business lunches.
    • : a state marked by dizziness or a dizzying succession of feelings, thoughts, etc.
    • : an attempt or trial, especially one undertaken tentatively or experimentally: Even if you don't agree with my plan, won't you give it a whirl?
    • : Machinery. whip.

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Examples

  • Viewers are surrounded by a whirl of images in which it’s impossible to distinguish real from unreal.

  • It was a giant fire whirl with winds over 100 miles per hour.

  • I think within the next 10 years, we ought to be able to predict where fire whirls are likely to form.

  • Cambage is a whirl of drop-steps, shoulder shoves and jump hooks, her 6-foot-8 frame affording her whatever space she requires.

  • It all makes sense in the whirl of Ide’s fate-driven universe.

  • The dying are deceived by the chemical whirl of “a dying brain.”

  • I never lifted a brush before, I never mixed a paint, so I gave it a whirl.

  • A whirl of activity on and off the slopes, Kathy heads the local chapter of Disabled Sports, Eastern Sierra region.

  • Ted Widmer on the whirl of celebrity and policy that dance across the pages.

  • Sajed fearlessly slapped on the rollerblades to give them a whirl, and a skater was born.

  • Then dawn flung itself impetuously across the hills, and the naked rim of the canyon took form in a shifting whirl of smoke.

  • They are, however, much less energetic, and often of greater size than the hurricane whirl.

  • They could revel in the rugged measures of ‘Marmion,’ in the whirl and clatter of the ‘Last Minstrel.’

  • Fragments were spun off the whirl of people, bits of BSG uniforms torn off their wearers and tossed like confetti.

  • Her life at this time was a whirl of excitement—excitement of the keenest order—namely, trying on.

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