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whizzing

/wiz, hwiz/US // wɪz, ʰwɪz //

呼啸而过,呼啸而过的,呼啸而来的,呼啸的

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v.无主动词 verb
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    whizzed, whiz·zing.

    • : to make a humming, buzzing, or hissing sound, as an object passing swiftly through the air.
    • : to move or rush with such a sound: The angry hornets whizzed by in a cloud.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    whizzed, whiz·zing.

    • : to cause to whiz.
    • : to treat with a whizzer.
n.名词 noun
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    • : Informal. a person who is quite good at a particular activity, in a certain field, etc.: She's a whiz at math.
    • : the sound of a whizzing object.
    • : a swift movement producing such a sound.

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Examples

  • The whiz of a bullet shooting past your left ear might make you instinctually turn in that direction.

  • Some micrometeoroids in space whiz through at over 20,000 mph.

  • Hundreds of bees are whizzing circles around the Cotes as they stack honeycombs on the trolley.

  • Acts of valor are acts of valor, whether there are bullets whizzing around you or not.

  • Or nailing a whizzing forehand exactly at the right moment to leave his opponent dumbfounded across the net.

  • I tried to imagine her on the side of a California road, cell phone in hand, traffic whizzing past.

  • It was at this moment that I truly got a sense of just how much capital was whizzing around me.

  • On the roads horses in old-fashioned buggies danced at automobiles whizzing by.

  • Daisy was still groaning as Mogin put the car in first and sent it whizzing down the street.

  • The rifle-bullets were whizzing so zip, zip from the sharpshooters on the Federal lines that involuntarily I moved on my chair.

  • At ten o'clock in the morning of April 18, 1862, the first mortar sent its big shell whizzing through the air.

  • A shell went whizzing through the darkness over the ships and plunged into the water beyond.

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