Whirl

(noun.) confused movement; 'he was caught up in a whirl of work'; 'a commotion of people fought for the exits'.

(noun.) the shape of something rotating rapidly.

(verb.) fly around; 'The clothes tumbled in the dryer'; 'rising smoke whirled in the air'.

(verb.) cause to spin; 'spin a coin'.

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• After a momentary whirl in the outer court-yard, the prison-door opened, and shut upon them. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Her mother came into the room before this whirl of thoughts was adjusted into anything like order. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• The air, entering, rises within, and carries up dust, leaves, and even heavier bodies that happen in its way, as the eddy or whirl passes over land. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• GLADIATORIAL After the fiasco of the proposal, Birkin had hurried blindly away from Beldover, in a whirl of fury. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• It was filled with so many new and wonderful things that his brain was in a whirl as he attempted to digest them all. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• I suppose the first mischief was done by the foreside of the whirl, the latter by the hinderside, their motion being contrary. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• He smiled at the whirl of metaphor with which he was trying to build up a defence against the influences of the last hour. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• There was hair upon the end, which blazed and shrunk into a light cinder, and, caught by the air, whirled up the chimney. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Stranger still, he whirled the girdle twice around his head, then released one end so that the leather strip flew out and the stone shot straight at a bird in the water. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The grating wind sawed rather than blew; and as it sawed, the sawdust whirled about the sawpit. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Rebecca did not rise from her attitude of misery until the door slammed upon him and his carriage whirled away. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• I felt the steel tear into my chest, all went black before me, my head whirled in dizziness, and I felt my knees giving beneath me. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• Once within the circle he whirled her round and round in a dance. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Haley whipped up the horse, and, with a steady, mournful look, fixed to the last on the old place, Tom was whirled away. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• The sun is a dizzying scarlet blaze, the sky a violet vortex whirling over me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Archer stammered, his brain whirling with the shock of the announcement. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• Face to face with the Englishman, however, he did not shirk the combat, but, whirling his sword with a fierce cry, dashed boldly at his enemy. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• Though he is stagnant in his cell, his connections without are whirling in the very vortex of life. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• She flung it into the fire, with a force that brought some of the glowing coals whirling out into the room. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• It is as if the storm-clouds within are moving like a whirling cyclone. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• His chief apparatus was a whirling table, sixty feet in diameter, and with an outside speed of seventy miles an hour. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• The instrument used in spinning was a large wheel, turned by hand, and setting in motion a set of whirls or revolving spindles, which twisted the hemp by their motion. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• A few, however, when we turn a telescope upon them, are seen to be whirls and clouds of shining vapour which we call nebul?. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• My head whirls, said he. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.

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