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词汇 example_english_whirligig
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Examples of whirligig


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They may be putting themselves on a whirligig of their own contrivance which will be painful in years to come.
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The whirligig of time will bring its revenge.
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We need to persuade them that the current chaotic whirligig of chaotic expedients is not enough.
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The whirligig of time has brought about a different state of affairs.
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One never knows, in the whirligig of political affairs, how these things are going to change.
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In the whirligig of time we never know where our friendships and where our enmities may be.
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How the whirligig of time brings changes!
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The whirligig of time brings its vengeance.
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The whirligig of time brings strange events.
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If the bakers get a rise and recoup themselves out of price increases instantly off-set by subsidies, we shall be moving from a spiral to a whirligig.
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Now the whirligig has gone round to such an extent that you put on a tax which is far heavier that the amount of the rates you remitted.
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Members of this suborder are adephagans, a term which notably include ground beetles, tiger beetles, predacious diving beetles, and whirligig beetles.
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Female transgressors of the correct codes were forced to endure the whirligig.
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The simplest and most common example of a wind-driven whirligig is the pinwheel.
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The motion needed to power a friction whirligig is very similar to rubbing sticks together to create fire.
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The wind simply pushes on the whirligig turning one part of it and it then uses inertia.
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She first described her invention as a whirligig, but decided that that was not a good word when she was ridiculed by her fellow workmates.
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Neustons are made up of some species of fish (see flying fish), beetles (see whirligig beetle), protozoans, bacteria and spiders (see fishing spider and diving bell spider).
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The final section is a manic whirligig steadily accelerating to the very limit of playability and involving extreme compression of material.
The thought of a great deal of this music, and whirligigs, is not particularly attractive to me.
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With recognition folk art whirligigs have increased in value.
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Whirligigs, which are closely related to weathervanes, most commonly represent a standing figure with paddled arms that flail in the wind.
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Whirligigs come in a range of sizes and configurations, bounded only by human ingenuity.
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At the end of his life there were said to be over 250 whirligigs in his yard.
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The first known depictions of whirligigs are string powered versions in tapestries from medieval times.
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A 51ft m kinetic tower and four 24ft m whirligigs resembling giant pinwheels are located immediately outside the museum.
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Whirligigs are also known as pinwheels, buzzers, comic weathervanes, gee-haws, spinners, whirlygigs, whirlijig, whirlyjig, whirlybird, or plain whirly.
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Whirligigs are most commonly powered by the wind but can be hand, friction, or motor powered.
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Yes, the whirligig of time produces unpredictable effects.
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He is in such a whirligig in politics.
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The whirligig of time brings its revenges, and every change in government means the same thing.
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I am amazed at the whirligig of opinion on the benches opposite.
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In the whirligig of the unique time facing us, we must find policies, but they are extremely difficult to determine.
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