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wormhole

/wurm-hohl/US // ˈwɜrmˌhoʊl //UK // (ˈwɜːmˌhəʊl) //

虫洞,虫孔,蜗牛洞,漩涡

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a hole made by a burrowing or gnawing worm, as in timber, nuts, etc.
    • : a theoretical passageway in space between a black hole and a white hole.

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Examples

  • Theorists have been intensely debating how literally to take all these wormholes.

  • They have fried apple pies that seem to come through a wormhole from a 1987 McDonalds.

  • Gabella is part of a team that wondered what ripples from a wormhole might look like.

  • Then, it would pass back all of the way through the wormhole and into the first universe again.

  • In contrast, anything that falls into a wormhole should be able to pass right through to the other side.

  • It offers the kind of refracted, wormhole narrative that generates comparisons to David Mitchell—deserved in this case.

  • How about that wormhole, James, that we were worrying over before the separation of the upper table?

  • "I think maybe that speck isn't a wormhole, after all," said Phil, subjecting the apple she still held to another scrutiny.

  • I suppose you might call me a semi-pro, able under ordinary circumstances to do any given wormhole in par.

  • I really believe he gets more pleasure out of one first-class, sixteenth-century wormhole than the original worm did.

  • Others attack only dead or dying bark and wood, but this injury often results in great loss from the so-called wormhole defects.