maelstrom
maelstrom 英 [ˈmeɪlstrɒm] 美 [ˈmeɪlstrɑm]
n. 大漩涡；极度混乱；不可抗的破坏力
名词复数:maelstroms
- A maelstrom is a powerful whirlpool. A luckless ship might go down in one, conflicting ocean currents might cause one. You hear it more often metaphorically, to describe disasters where many competing forces are at play.
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- n. 大漩涡；极度混乱；不可抗的破坏力
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1. The anxious person has the spirit like a maelstrom.
焦虑的人的精神世界就像一个大漩涡。
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2. By itself, no country or currency zone could escape the maelstrom of such a crisis, as all countries are interconnected via their exchange rates.
所有国家或货币区都将被迫卷入这个危机的漩涡中。 汇率将所有这些国家连在一起，以致没人能幸免于难。
- 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" (from PIE root *mele- "to crush, grind") + stroom "stream" (from PIE root *sreu- "to flow"). 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."
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