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spiral

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adj.螺旋形的 n.螺旋 v.盘旋

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spiral为短语/超纲词汇

词形变化:

副词:spirally 名词:spirality 动词过去式:spiraled/spiralled 过去分词:spiraled/spiralled 现在分词:spiraling/spiralling 第三人称单数:spirals/spirals

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spiral


/'spaɪərəl; `spaɪrəl/
adj advancing or ascending in a continuous curve that winds round a central point 螺旋形的; 盘旋的
*a spiral staircase 螺旋式楼梯
* A snail's shell is spiral in form. 蜗牛壳是螺旋形的.

n
1 (a) spiral line 螺线.
(b) object that has a spiral shape 螺旋状的物体.
2 continuous increase or decrease in two or more quantities alternately because each depends on the other(s) 互为前提的至少两个量之间的交替上升或下降
*an inflationary spiral 螺旋式上升的通胀
* the spiral of rising wages and prices 工资和物价的交替上升.
3 (idm 习语) a vicious spiral => vicious.

v (-ll-; US also -l-)
1 [Ipr, Ip] move in a spiral course 螺旋形移动; 盘旋移动
*The falling leaf spiralled to the ground. 落叶盘旋着飘到了地上.
* The smoke spiralled upwards. 那股烟袅袅上升.
2 [I, Ip] increase or decrease continuously 连续增长或减少
*Prices are still spiralling, ie increasing rapidly. 物价仍在急剧上涨.
1. Was the philosopher who refused to look through Galileo´s telescope more culpable than those who alleged that the spiral nebulae observed with Lord Rosse´s great telescope in the eighteen-forties were scratches left by the grinder?
    某位哲学家曾拒绝使用伽利略的望远镜去观察天空;到了19世纪40年代,有人硬把罗斯勋爵高倍望远镜观测到的螺旋状星云说成是磨镜工留下的磨痕。难道反对伽利略的哲学家比诋毁罗斯勋爵造谣者应受到更大的谴责吗?

2. The spiral nebulae were scratches left by the grinder.
    螺旋状的"星云"是研磨者所留下的痕迹.

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