maelstrom
英 [ˈmeɪlstrɒm]
美 [ˈmeɪlstrɑːm]
n. (思想、感情、事态的)混乱，骚乱，动乱; 大旋涡
复数：maelstroms
BNC.20136 / COCA.19331
牛津词典
noun
- （思想、感情、事态的）混乱，骚乱，动乱
a situation full of strong emotions or confusing events, that is hard to control and makes you feel frightened - 大旋涡
a very strong current of water that moves in circles
柯林斯词典
- N-COUNT 大动乱;极度混乱状态；混乱不堪
If you describe a situation as amaelstrom, you mean that it is very confused or violent.- ...the maelstrom of ethnic hatreds and vendetta politics...
种族仇恨与政治宿怨造成的大动乱 - Inside, she was a maelstrom of churning emotions.
她心中的情感似波涛汹涌，起伏不定。
- ...the maelstrom of ethnic hatreds and vendetta politics...
英英释义
noun
- a powerful circular current of water (usually the result of conflicting tides)
双语例句
- Arrive at dusk, having walked through the nearby hutongs, and you can forget the maelstrom of development that has swallowed up most of the old city.
当你穿过附近的胡同，黄昏时分漫步到那里时，你可以忘却正在或已经发生的灾难性发展，这种发展已经让老北京城的大部分风貌不复存在了。 - Most immediately, the maelstrom on Wall Street has transformed the US election campaign.
几乎是同时，华尔街崩溃改变了美国总统大选。 - The square is a maelstrom of crowds, buses, and taxis.
广场上混乱不堪，到处是人群、公共汽车和出租车。 - In this maelstrom, long-lived political dynasties, venerable institutions, and hundred-year-old business models are all at risk.
在变革这个大漩涡中，长期存在的政权、古老的机构和历经百年的商业模式都将面临风险。 - This is the phenomenon that enables us to make snowmen – but if off-piste skiers survive the maelstrom of an avalanche, once the snow stops moving it locks together like mausoleum concrete.
正是这种现象使我们能够堆雪人&但是，假如在非正规场地滑雪的人遇到雪崩后幸存下来，一旦雪不再移动，就会凝结得死死的，就像陵墓的混凝土一样。 - The maelstrom sucked in the canoe.
大漩涡吞没了独木舟。 - The boat flipped and hurled its passengers into the maelstrom.
这时，小船翻转过来，把上面的乘客都甩进了大漩涡之中。 - So far the economy is co-operating: earnings at most US companies are holding up despite the credit maelstrom.
迄今为止，经济面比较配合：尽管信贷市场波动剧烈，但多数美国企业的业绩仍得到支撑。 - Inside, she was a maelstrom of churning emotions.
她心中的情感似波涛汹涌，起伏不定。 - It is more about the maelstrom of events surrounding him.
这部短片讲的更多的是围绕在他身边的种种大事件。