eddies

英 [ˈediz]

美 [ˈediz]

n.  (空气、灰尘或水的)旋涡，涡流
v.  起旋涡; 旋转
eddy的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• （水或气流的）漩涡，涡流
  Aneddyis a movement in water or in the air which goes round and round instead of flowing in one continuous direction.
• VERB 起漩涡;旋转;杂乱无章地移动
  Toeddymeans to move round and round, or to move in a disorganized way.
  1. The dust whirled and eddied in the sunlight...
     灰尘在阳光下旋转翻腾。
  2. The crowds were eddying into the road.
     人群乱哄哄地涌上街头。

双语例句

• Observation and study of the circulation and meso-scale eddies in the upper layer of the South China Sea in the summer of 1998
  1998年夏季南海上层环流与中尺度涡旋观测研究
• A vortex, as of a whirlwind or whirlpool. The viscous force constantly drains eddy energy and limits the population of eddies.
  涡流，如旋风或旋涡的粘性力不断消耗旋涡的能量，从而抑制着旋涡的繁殖。
• Mike told him if he was really his friends, then he should go spend the night at Eddies.
  迈克告诉他，如果他真是迈克的好朋友，他就应该去艾迪家过夜。
• There is a pair of "kidney eddies" on the vertical section of the outlet of effusion hole, and the "kidney eddies" will moves into the main flow when the blowing ratio is increased.
  而在发散孔出口与主流方向垂直的位置会形成一对旋转方向相反的肾形涡，且涡的位置随吹风比的增大而移向主流区域。
• Newsmakers need to understand that the swirling eddies of news are not tiny pools on the shoreline.
  新闻人物要明白新闻的漩涡可不是海边的那些小游泳池。
• Hulot's team argues that the growth of these reversed patches, presumably eddies that are working against the primary motion of the core, can explain the current decline in the dipole field.
  余洛的研究小组认为，假如此区块是一种与主要地核运动相抗衡的「漩涡」区，那麽此区块的增长便可以解释现今磁偶极场的衰减现象了。
• But their work appears to merge in the study of large eddies.
  但在大旋涡的研究上，他们的工作看来却殊途同归。
• Meridional heat transfer by large-scale eddies is most significant in the upper troposphere of middle latitude.
  大尺度湍涡的子午线热输送在纬度对流层上层是最重要的。
• Looking for small eddies in films may be fun, but scientists look to intermediate-sized eddies for a deeper understanding of turbulence.
  在银幕上搜索小旋涡是有趣的，但是科学家却注意中间尺寸的漩涡，为的是更深入地了解湍流。
• The zone was moved again fractionally to the west on Monday, based on a reassessment of ocean drift taking into account a more circular counterclockwise current and eddies than in the earlier search zone to the south.
  本周一，搜索区域再次小幅西移，这是考虑到修改后的搜索区域比原先偏南的搜索区域有更强的呈逆时针方向的洋流和涡流。