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- poetic/literary whirl; gyrate〈诗/文〉旋转, 回旋, 环动：
a swarm of ghosts gyred around him.
一群鬼魂围绕着他转动。
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- a spiral; a vortex环, 圈; 螺旋形; 旋涡。
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- Geography a circular pattern of currents in an ocean basin【地理】流涡：
the central North Pacific gyre.
北太平洋中心流涡。
词源
late Middle English （in the sense 'whirl (someone or something) round'）： from late Latin gyrare, from Latin gyrus 'a ring'， from Greek guros. The noun is from Latin gyrus.