whirlpool

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The whirlpool sucked down the boat.
漩渦把小船吸進(jìn)去了。
《新英漢大辤典》
But some of the most beautiful things in nature and our universe exhibit mathematical properties, from the smallest seashell to the biggest whirlpool galaxies.
但是，從最小的貝殼到最大的漩渦星系，自然界和我們這個宇宙中大部分美麗的東西都呈現(xiàn)出數(shù)學(xué)特性。
No matter how intimately you know the chemical character of H2O, it does not prepare you for the character of a whirlpool.
不論你多麼確切的了解H2O（水的分子式）的化學(xué)特征，水分子它竝不具備你所知道的漩渦的特征。

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a small area of the sea or other water in which there is a powerful, circular current of water that can pull objects down into its centre

A whirlpool is a small area in a river or the sea where the water is moving quickly around and around, so that objects floating near it are pulled into its centre.