Maelstrom的意思|Maelstrom的解释-里氏词典

maelstrom ['meilstrәm]

n. 大漩涡, 极度混乱

maelstrom

[ noun ]
a powerful circular current of water (usually the result of conflicting tides)
<noun.event>

Maelstrom \Mael"strom\, n. [Norw., a whirlpool.]
1. A celebrated whirlpool on the coast of Norway. Hence: any
large or powerful whirlpool.

Syn: whirlpool, vortex.

2. Also (Fig.) An uncontrollable agitated or confusedly
disordered state or situation; as, a maelstrom of vice.
[1913 Webster +PJC]

Also caught in the BCCI maelstrom is Robert Altman, Mr. Clifford's law partner and younger alter ego.
Even a hint of opposition to civil rights legislation is enough to create a maelstrom among liberal and moderate Democrats and moderate Republicans in the Senate.
Jewish settlers, who have chosen to make their homes in the midst of the maelstrom, complain bitterly that few friends visit anymore.
While eleven of President Bush's choices for Cabinet posts have sailed through the confirmation process, Tower's selection ran into a maelstrom fueled by rounds of allegations about the former senator's personal and business affairs.
But there are still problems. The Strand is no longer the fashionable thoroughfare it was and, at the Aldwych end, has long been a forbidding one-way maelstrom.

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