不及物动词
1. Military budgets continued to spiral.
军事预算继续急遽增加。
名词
1. A spring is a spiral.
弹簧是螺旋形的物体。
1. 螺旋形的：每一个有关数码媒体及电脑平面设计的单元可独立应用;但其实每项单元大多与之前单元有关,课程应由浅入深,螺旋形的(Spiral)层层深化,学生较易掌握,也节省设计构思时间.
1. spiral的近义词
1. 螺旋(形)
A spiral is a shape which winds round and round, with each curve above or outside the previous one.
2. (使)盘旋着生长(或移动)
If something spirals or is spiralled somewhere, it grows or moves in a spiral curve.
e.g. Vines spiraled upward toward the roof...
藤蔓盘旋着朝屋顶方向生长。
e.g. ...a bullet spiralling out of a gun barrel...
从枪管里飞旋而出的子弹
3. (数量、水平)急遽增长
If an amount or level spirals, it rises quickly and at an increasing rate.
e.g. Production costs began to spiral.
生产成本开始急遽上升。
e.g. ...a spiralling trend of violence...
暴力急遽上升的态势
4. (数量、水平)急遽变化
If an amount or level spirals downwards, it falls quickly and at an increasing rate.
e.g. House prices will continue to spiral downwards.
房价将继续暴跌。
1. South African Finance Minister Trevor Manuel has called the process a " self reinforcing, deteriorating spiral ".
2. In vibrant contrast to the image's rich harvest of classic spiral and elliptical galaxies, there is a zoo of oddball galaxies littering the field.
3. The victim's roommate rushed him to a hospital, where doctors found a closed spiral fracture in his left wrist.
4. They were followed by surprising Matt Savoie, whose clutch performance reversed a long downward career spiral.
5. They also have reduced the number of new venues to be built following fears that costs might spiral out of control.
6. The demand of refined fuel has exceeded supply, which caused transportation costs for agriculture products to spiral out of control.
7. These include setting an inflation target to get Japan out of the deflationary spiral, which is shrinking corporate profits and holding back economic recovery.
8. The world is now shuddering at what appears to be shaping up as a deflationary spiral.
9. A new television adaptation of a literary classic is sending many into a spiral of discomfort.
10. Toss in the fact that they are both about as interesting as dishwater outside the ring and you see a sport in a terminal spiral.
noun
1. flying downward in a helical path with a large radius
2. a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops
e.g. a coil of rope
Synonym: coil volute whorl helix
3. ornament consisting of a curve on a plane that winds around a center with an increasing distance from the center
Synonym: volute
4. a continuously accelerating change in the economy
5. a plane curve traced by a point circling about the center but at increasing distances from the center
6. a curve that lies on the surface of a cylinder or cone and cuts the element at a constant angle
Synonym: helix
verb
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1. to wind or move in a spiral course
e.g. the muscles and nerves of his fine drawn body were coiling for action
black smoke coiling up into the sky
the young people gyrated on the dance floor
2. move in a spiral or zigzag course
Synonym: corkscrew
3. form a spiral
e.g. The path spirals up the mountain
adj