maelstrom

• n.大渦；極度の混乱；抗しがたい破壊力

オランダ語のMaelstrom、粉砕機のような流れ、渦巻き、maalen、粉砕機、語源はmillと同じ、stroom、流れ、語源はstreamと同じ。もともとはノルウェー西部の海にある伝説的なmaelstromを指し、後に混沌を意味する言葉から派生した。

maelstrom (n.)

1680s (Hakluyt, 1560s, has Malestrand), name of a famous whirlpool off the northwest coast of Norway, from Danish malstr?m (1673), from older Dutch Maelstrom (modern maalstroom), literally "grinding-stream," from malen "to grind" (see meal) + stroom "stream" (see stream (n.)). The name was used by Dutch cartographers (for example Mercator, 1595). OED says perhaps originally from F?roic mal(u)streymur. Popularized as a synonym for "whirlpool" c. 1841, the year of Poe's "A Descent into the Maelstrom."

1. Inside,she was a maelstrom of churning emotions.

彼女の心の中の感情は波が荒く、起伏が定まらないようだ。

2.The canoe was tossed about in the maelstrom .

カヌーが渦の中を揺れ動いている。

3.The river takes a headlong plunge into a maelstrom of rocks and boulders.

川の水が急流で流れ落ち、がれきの渦に入った。

4.She was drawn into a maelstrom of revolutionary events.

彼女は革命事件の洪水に巻き込まれた。

5.The boat flipped and hurled its passengers into the maelstrom .

すると、ボートがひっくり返り、上の乗客を大きな渦に投げ込んだ。