whirl

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /wɜːl/    美 /(h)wɝl/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An act of whirling.
    — She gave the top a whirl and it spun across the floor.
  2. Something that whirls, such as a whirlwind.
  3. A confused tumult.
  4. A rapid series of events.
    — My life is one social whirl.
  5. Dizziness or giddiness.
    — My mind was in a whirl.
  6. A brief experiment or trial. idiomatic,informal
    — OK, let's give it a whirl.
动词 v.
  1. To rotate, revolve, spin or turn rapidly. intransitive
    — The dancer whirled across the stage, stopped, and whirled around to face the audience.
  2. To have a sensation of spinning or reeling. intransitive
    — My head is whirling after all that drink.
  3. To make something or someone whirl. transitive
    — The dancer whirled his partner round on her toes.
  4. To remove or carry quickly with, or as with, a revolving motion; to snatch. transitive
    — See, see the chariot, and those rushing wheels, / That whirled the prophet up at Chebar flood.

词形变化

whirls present,singular,third-person whirling participle,present whirled participle,past whirled past whirls plural

词汇关系

衍生词
awhirl fire whirl give something a whirl merry-go-whirl whirl bone whirl-bone whirligig whirlpool whirly

词源

词源 1
From Middle English whirlen, contracted from earlier *whirvelen, *whervelen, possibly from Old English *hwyrflian, *hweorflian (attested in hwirflung, hwerflung (“change, vicissitude”)), frequentative form of Old English hweorfan (“to turn”), itself from Proto-West Germanic *hwerban, from Proto-Germanic *hwerbaną (“to turn”); or perhaps from Old Norse hvirfla (“to go round, spin”). Cognate with Dutch wervelen (“to whirl, swirl”), German wirbeln (“to whirl, swirl”), Danish hvirvle (“to whirl”), Swedish virvla (older spelling hvirfla), Albanian vorbull (“a whirl”). Related to whirr and wharve.
词源 2
From Middle English whirl, wherwille, whorwhil, wervel, from Old English hwirfel, hwyrfel (“whirlpool”), from Proto-West Germanic *hwirbil, from Proto-Germanic *hwirbilaz, *hwarbilaz (“swirl, whirl, whirlpool”), equivalent to wharve + -el; and also Old Norse hvirfill (“ring, circle, crown”), whence Danish hvirvel (“cowlick”), Dutch werveling (“whirling, vortex”), German Low German Warvel (“whirl, whirlpool”), German Wirbel (“whirl, whirlpool”).
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