Whirlwind
[ '(h)wə:lwind ]
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n. 旋风;猛烈的势力;混乱;破坏性的力量或事物;
adj. 旋风般的;急速的;喧嚣混乱的;
📝 例句
They had a whirlwind romance .
他们之间有过一段短暂的风流韵事。
✅ 同义词
📖 牛津释义
whirlwind
n
1 funnel-shaped column of swiftly circulating air 旋风
[attrib 作定语]
(fig 比喻) a whirlwind (ie very rapid) affair/courtship/romance 仓促间的暧昧关系[求婚/风流韵事].
2 (idm 习语) reap the whirlwind => reap.
🔁 扩展释义
*['hwә:lwind]n. 旋风
📖 同为「公共英语」词汇
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I've never seen anyone as strict as my boss.
我就没见过像我们老板这么严厉的人。
My mouth is watering.
我在流口水。
We owe a lot to the birds and beasts who eat insects but all of them put together kill only a fraction of the number destroyed by spiders.
我们要十分感谢那些吃昆虫的鸟和兽，然而把它们所杀死的昆虫全部加在一起也只相当于蜘蛛所消灭的一小部分。