maelstrom
['melstrɑm]
- n. 大漩渦；極度混亂；不可抗的破壞力
GRE暢通詞匯
詞態變化
復數:?maelstroms;
中文詞源
maelstrom 大漩渦，混亂
來自荷蘭語Maelstrom,像磨坊一樣的水流，漩渦，來自maalen,磨，詞源同mill,stroom,水流，詞源同stream.原指挪威西部海域傳說中的大漩渦，后引申詞義混亂。
英文詞源
- maelstrom (n.)
- 1680s (Hakluyt, 1560s, has Malestrand), name of a famous whirlpool off the northwest coast of Norway, from Danish malstr?m (1673), from older Dutch Maelstrom (modern maalstroom), literally "grinding-stream," from malen "to grind" (see meal) + stroom "stream" (see stream (n.)). The name was used by Dutch cartographers (for example Mercator, 1595). OED says perhaps originally from F?roic mal(u)streymur. Popularized as a synonym for "whirlpool" c. 1841, the year of Poe's "A Descent into the Maelstrom."
雙語例句
- 1. Inside, she was a maelstrom of churning emotions.
- 她心中的情感似波濤洶涌，起伏不定。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. The canoe was tossed about in the maelstrom.
- 獨木舟在旋渦之中搖晃打轉.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 3. The river takes a headlong plunge into a maelstrom of rocks and boulders.
- 河水急流而下,入一個漂礫的漩渦中.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 4. She was drawn into a maelstrom of revolutionary events.
- 她被卷入革命事件的洪流中.
來自辭典例句
- 5. The boat flipped and hurled its passengers into the maelstrom.
- 這時,小船翻轉過來,把上面的乘客都甩進了大漩渦之中.
來自互聯網