whirling

英 [ˈwɜːlɪŋ]

美 [ˈwɜːrlɪŋ]

v.  (使)旋转，回旋，打转; (头脑、思想等)混乱不清，激动，恍惚
whirl的现在分词

现在分词：whirling　复数：whirlings　

BNC.24630 / COCA.22200

柯林斯词典

• V-ERG (使)回旋;(使)旋转
  If something or someonewhirlsaround or if youwhirlthem around, they move around or turn around very quickly.
  1. Not receiving an answer, she whirled round...
     没有得到答案，她飞快地转过身去。
  2. He was whirling Anne around the floor...
     他正拉着安妮在舞池内转圈儿。
  3. The smoke began to whirl and grew into a monstrous column.
     浓烟开始盘旋上升，形成了一个巨大的烟柱。
  4. Whirlis also a noun.
     
  5. ...the barely audible whirl of wheels.
     几乎听不见轮子的转动声
• N-COUNT 一连串;接连不断的活动
  You can refer to a lot of intense activity as awhirlof activity.
  1. In half an hour's whirl of activity she does it all...
     经过半个小时的忙碌，她全都做完了。
  2. Your life is such a social whirl.
     你总是在不停地参加社交活动。
• PHRASE 混乱;躁动
  If a person or their mind isin a whirl, they are very confused or excited.
  1. My thoughts are in a whirl.
     我的脑子里一团乱。
• PHRASE 试一试;尝试一下
  If you decide togivean activitya whirl, you do it even though it is something that you have never tried before.
  1. Why not give acupuncture a whirl?...
     为什么不试试针灸？
  2. We decided to give it a whirl.
     我们决定尝试一下。

英英释义

noun

• the act of rotating in a circle or spiral
  Synonym:gyration

双语例句

• The leaves of the trees came whirling down in the wind.
  树叶在风中旋转落下。
• The grey hair with mother of old pagoda tree when being homesick before the door is whirling in company;
  想家时门前的老槐树同母亲的白发一起婆娑；
• The authors introduce some use attention points, main adjusting methods and trouble removing measures about the whirling retarder.
  介绍电涡流缓速器的使用注意事项、主要调整方法和故障排除的措施。
• A centrifuge is a device for whirling an object with a high velocity.
  极高速度的离心作用。离心机是使物体作高速旋转的装置。
• Those whirling circles one above the other are worse than the jangling of all the bells.
  这些一个比一个高的旋转的圆圈，真有比齐鸣的钟声还要坏。
• Researchers still have much to study in the billions of whirling disks that populate our universe.
  在这些充斥整个宇宙的无数旋转圆盘上，还有许多有待研究的课题。
• The children were dancing like whirling dervishes.
  孩子们跳舞疯得像旋转的托钵僧。
• Billions of asteroids and comets are whirling around the sun, and they have their own distinct traffic patterns.
  几十亿颗小行星和彗星在围绕着太阳旋转，它们有着自己独特的穿行模式。
• By comparison the navy was a queer little planet whirling in an austere void.
  相比之下，海军像一颗在严峻的太空中旋转的怪诞的小行星。
• Snowflakes are whirling down.
  雪花飘零。