maelstrom
['melstrɑm]
- n. 大漩涡；极度混乱；不可抗的破坏力
词态变化
复数: maelstroms;
中文词源
maelstrom 大漩涡，混乱
来自荷兰语Maelstrom,像磨坊一样的水流，漩涡，来自maalen,磨，词源同mill,stroom,水流，词源同stream.原指挪威西部海域传说中的大漩涡，后引申词义混乱。
英文词源
- maelstrom (n.)
- 1680s (Hakluyt, 1560s, has Malestrand), name of a famous whirlpool off the northwest coast of Norway, from Danish malstrøm (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 Færoic mal(u)streymur. Popularized as a synonym for "whirlpool" c. 1841, the year of Poe's "A Descent into the Maelstrom."
双语例句
- 1. Inside, she was a maelstrom of churning emotions.
- 她心中的情感似波涛汹涌，起伏不定。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. The canoe was tossed about in the maelstrom.
- 独木舟在旋涡之中摇晃打转.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 3. The river takes a headlong plunge into a maelstrom of rocks and boulders.
- 河水急流而下,入一个漂砾的漩涡中.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 4. She was drawn into a maelstrom of revolutionary events.
- 她被卷入革命事件的洪流中.
来自辞典例句
- 5. 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.
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