As the maelstrom in the Persian Gulf enters its second week,the overriding question is when and how the Allies’final shoe-the ground assault-will drop.

波斯湾的风暴已进入第二周，现在最重要的问题就是联军何时以及如何使出最后的一招--地面攻击。

The maelstrom sucked in the canoe.

大漩涡吞没了独木舟。

There’s never been such a vast number of men called up before, and the front line is so long that all the central provinces have been caught in the maelstrom

动员的人数，迁延的时日，都是空前的!战线也长，中部几省都卷进了旋涡!

A maelstrom of traffic

交通的大混乱

She was drawn into a maelstrom of revolutionary events

她被卷入革命事件的洪流中

In the North, the war is getting bloodier and bloodier, and in the South, Chang Fa-kuei’s Kwangsi Army is marching on Hunan Province; the whole country will soon be drawn into the maelstrom of civil war

陇海，平汉两条铁路上是越打越厉害，张桂军也已经向湖南出动了，小张态度不明，全中国都要卷进混战。

caught in the maelstrom of war.

陷入战争的大旋涡之中

the maelstrom of war

战争的动乱.

||1:It may well be true—but not for the reasons most people might think.||2:Consumers, analysts and investors have been howling for proof that Apple can still do the magic tricks of the Jobs era; iPad sales have weakened in recent quarters and the iPhone, launched a tech aeon ago in 2007, still generates more than half of the firm’s revenues.||3:Yet lost in the maelstrom of snazzy new gadgets, applause and photos was an important shift: this week’s announcements showed that Apple’s future will be less about hardware and more about its “ecosystem”—a combination of software, services, data and a plethora of partners.

||1:这可能是真的——但原因并非大多数人想的那样。||2:消费者、市场分析员、投资者一直都在极力试图证明苹果可以再创乔布斯时代的传奇；然而，iPad近几季的销量已有所下降，于2007年发布的iPhone掀起了一段科技狂潮，它至今仍然占据苹果公司收入的半壁江山。||3:然而，在充斥着时髦的新产品、掌声、美图的狂潮中，被人忽略的是苹果的重大转型：本周发布会表示苹果未来的重心将从硬件转移到“生态系统”——一个集软件、服务、数据、众多合作伙伴于一体的有机系统。

Five years after the maelstrom of September 2008, global finance is safer. But still not safe enough

五年前国际金融历经了2008年9月金融危机的冲击，现在更加稳健了，但仍非万无一失。

At a Star Trek convention in Las Vegas, the publishing company Simon and Schuster officially announced Star Trek: The Original Series: The Antares Maelstrom as the next installment of the Star Trek: The Original Series set of novels.

在拉斯维加斯《星际迷航》展会上，西蒙与舒斯特出版公司正式宣布《星际迷航：原初系列》：“The Antares Maelstrom”作为《星际迷航：原初系列》小说集的下一部续集。

Mr Dale believes that, caught up in this maelstrom of fads, managers can overlook the obvious - hence the title of his book.

戴尔认为，由于陷入了这种时尚漩涡，经理人可能会忽视那些浅显的道理——他这本书由此得名。

When she reads Twilight, she is sucking up a complex maelstrom of psychosexual metaphor, and all before lunch.

当一个少女阅读《暮光之城》时，她不断吸收由各种性心理隐喻交织而成的复杂信息流，而这一切都发生在午餐之前。

when encountering a maelstrom , the drifting ship can retard, and when encountering a small burble, the drifting ship can stop advancing;

当遇到大漩涡时，本漂流船会减速，遇到小漩涡时，本漂流船会停止前进；

Celebrities are more likely to become the targets of the word-of-mouth maelstrom online.

名人是最有可能成为网上舆论的目标，例如杨澜。

So far the economy is co-operating: earnings at most US companies are holding up despite the credit maelstrom .

迄今为止，经济面比较配合：尽管信贷市场波动剧烈，但多数美国企业的业绩仍得到支撑。

Last autumn, amid the maelstrom of the financial crisis, it seemed that fundamental change was afoot.

去年秋季，当金融危机肆虐之际，某种根本改革似乎正在酝酿之中。

One must learn to weed out incendiary polemics and agitprop from the whirling online maelstrom to become an informed and thoughtful citizen.

人们应该学会如何从激烈的网络漩涡中剔除煽动性的巧言令色及宣传伎俩、并成为一个消息灵通且有独立见解的公民。

First, the West has a security interest in preventing the region from slipping into a maelstrom of conflict.

首先，西方在防止该地区逐渐成为冲突的大漩涡上有安全利益。

Why default on the possibility that a better kind of “lookout on the ship of state” may emerge from the current maelstrom of innovation?

为何要否认当今的创新浪潮会带来一种更好的“美国前景”的可能性？

No longer, its politicians gloated, was India “hyphenated” with Pakistan as one half of a potential nuclear maelstrom .

印度政客洋洋得意的原因不再是拥有核武，同巴基斯坦一样可以制造核漩涡；

Sometimes we are drawn into the maelstrom of life without taking time to savor the chances we have.

有时候我们身陷生活的漩涡之中而没有机会花时间去享受。

Mr Lewis has had a rough time ever since BofA took over Merrill Lynch amid the financial maelstrom in September 2008.

自从去年九月份美国银行于金融大漩涡中接管美林证券，Lewis先生的日子就不怎么好过。