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

• 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。
• Analysis of the Structures and the Mechanisms of the Cyclonic Eddies to the Northwest of Luzon Islands
  吕宋岛西北海域气旋式涡旋的结构及其形成机制
• Turbulence is an extraordinarily complex three-dimensional flow which is unsteady, inerratic and composed of eddies.
  湍流是一种高度复杂的三维非稳态、带旋转的不规则流动。
• 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。
• 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。
• From dust devils and squalls up to continent-size eddies that only satellites can see.
  从小尘暴和暴风发展到只有卫星上可以看到的席卷整块大陆的旋涡。
• Study of Mesoscale Eddies in the Subtropical Ocean of the Northwest-Pacific and Adjacent Area; P wave velocity structure in the crust and upper mantle beneath northeastern South China Sea and surrounding regions
  西北太平洋副热带逆流区及其邻近海域中尺度涡研究南海东北部及其邻近地区地壳上地幔P波速度结构
• It is shown that the growth of ridge over the Ural Mountains tends to organize transient eddies into the region upstream from the central North Atlantic to the coastal western Europe.
  结果表明：当乌拉尔地区高压脊发展时，有利于瞬变在上游的北大西洋中部到西欧沿岸地区组织起来。
• Commanders look to cruise in cold-water eddies or just below boundaries between seawater layers, each of which can help refract sound away from the ocean surface.
  潜艇指挥官通常希望航行在冷水漩涡或在海水层交界处的下方，这些位置有助于将声音折射出海面。
• In the most intensely turbulent flows, we can often discern a semblance of order through the disorder of the eddies.
  对大多数强烈湍流，往往可以透过旋涡的混乱看出一种井然有序的外表。