whirligig

英 [ˈwɜːliɡɪɡ]

美 [ˈwɜːrliɡɪɡ]

n.  活跃多变的事物; 经常变换的东西; 变迁; 旋转木马

复数：whirligigs　

BNC.37306 / COCA.34905

牛津词典

noun

• 活跃多变的事物；经常变换的东西；变迁
  something that is very active and always changing
  1. the whirligig of fashion
     时尚的千变万化
• 旋转木马
  a merry-go-round at a fairground for children to ride on

英英释义

noun

• a large, rotating machine with seats for children to ride or amusement
  Synonym:carouselcarrouselmerry-go-roundroundabout
• a conical child's plaything tapering to a steel point on which it can be made to spin
  1. he got a bright red top and string for his birthday
  Synonym:topteetotumspinning top

verb

• whirl or spin like a whirligig

双语例句

• Our feelings of happiness and sorrow are soon lost in the whirligig of time.
  我们感情上的悲欢会随着时间的流逝很快消失。
• During its twenty-year-development, China music video, as a cultural phenomenon, is changing silently with the whirligig of China society.
  作为一种文化现象，中国音乐电视在中国大陆近二十年的发展历程中，随着中国社会的不断变迁，也在悄然的发生着变化。
• The whirligig of dozens and the pinnacle of seven.
  十二（进）的循环和七（进）的顶点。
• Until finally, to complete the picture, the shadow of Sodom and Gomorrah unleashes the whirligig of loves between the same sex.
  最后，所多玛和蛾摩拉的阴影潜入，释放开了同性之爱旋动的陀螺，至此全图得以完整。
• Its working principal is different from the plate cam, the framework of cylindrical cam which has the speciality of compact framework 、 small volumes good rigidity and transferring bigger torsion transforms whirligig into the follower's complicated movement by its curve figure or slot.
  它与平面凸轮在运动原理上是不一样的，圆柱凸轮机构通过曲线轮廓或凹槽将旋转运动转化从动件的复杂运动，具有结构紧凑、体积小、刚性好、能传递较大转矩的特性。
• The Research on Our Country's Athletic Administrative Management System Whirligig
  苏联科研体制变迁我国体育行政管理体制的变迁
• According to Carl G Jung, both are the incarnations of Anima with kindness and evil, representing the whirligig of male aesthetic ideas over female images.
  按照荣格的原型理论，神女与狐妖都是阿尼玛原型的代表，带有善恶两重性，是古人对于女性人物“外端内媚”的双重要求。
• The whirligig of life [ time] The eyes themselves were of that baffling protean gray which is never twice the same.
  人世[时代]的变迁眸子是变幻莫测的灰色，时时在变化。
• The children and whirligig in a village's amusement park.
  孩子和乡村游乐场里的旋转木马。
• During the movement of the regulation annulus, it turns whirligig of the regulations arm into whirligig of the spindle, and change the whirling direction.
  调整环在运动过程中把压力臂上拨叉的旋转运动转化为转轴的旋转运动，改变了旋转运动的方向。