whirlwind 的 3 个定义
- Meteorology. a relatively small mass of air rotating rapidly around a more or less vertical axis and simultaneously advancing over land or sea: specific categories of whirlwind include dust devil, dust whirl, tornado, and waterspout: The sails were carried up to the mastheads by the force of the whirlwind.
- anything resembling a whirlwind, as in violent action or destructive force: a fiery whirlwind of shrapnel.
- someone or something characterized by great energy or swiftness, often with an atmosphere of chaos: a staff of three do-nothings and one whirlwind; a whirlwind of activity at the stock exchange.
- like a whirlwind, as in speed or force: a whirlwind visit to New York.
- to move or travel quickly: You can't just whirlwind in and out of their lives and expect them to be OK with that.
whirlwind 近义词
very fast
更多whirlwind例句
- The holiday season is set to be a whirlwind, and there’s no time left to pivot, but Amazon is a good place to be at this time.
- It’s a heart-wrenching choice not to spend the holidays with your loved ones, especially after this whirlwind of a year, but unfortunately in pandemic times, the safest thing to do is stay apart.
- Alas, I live in Los Angeles, and even if I lived in New York, now doesn’t seem like the best time to be having a whirlwind love story with someone I’ve never met.
- To eliminate it is to court the whirlwind of governance — to accept that your opponents may win elections, to risk their agenda passing into law.
- At our center, which comprises nothing, like the hollowness in the middle of a whirlwind, we fall back into the world.
- He talks about a whirlwind weekend-long affair with a man he met at a club in Berlin.
- Well known for his inability to say no to worthy causes, Palmer has always been a whirlwind of good works.
- After a whirlwind romance, Sarkozy quickly married Bruni in February 2008.
- Later that month he was making his first whirlwind foreign trip to identify countries that might be willing to take detainees.
- This year has been a whirlwind for Kate Bosworth—featuring a new movie, new design collaboration, and even a new husband.
- They burst out of the mouth of the canyon, a smoke-wreathed whirlwind, heading for the protection of the river.
- She took one look, then struck her horse a sharp blow and, like a whirlwind, came upon the scene.
- With regard to the Whirlwind, perhaps it might correspond better to Dors picture; it has not turned out quite what I wanted.
- Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as in a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
- Meanwhile the leading Apaches, not now more than fifty in number, were swept along by the same whirlwind of brute instinct.