A gyre is a big whirlpool that traps and moves the plastic in circles.

环流是指让垃圾被困后呈环形运的大涡。

They form a whirlpool aptly called the ocean's navel, whose attracting power extends a distance of fifteen kilometers.

形成了这被恰如其份地称为“海洋的肚脐”的大涡，它的吸引力一直延伸到15公里外。

The international community missed its opportunity to prevent the Syrian crisis from pulling an entire region into a maelstrom of instability.

国际社会错过了防止叙利亚危机将整地区荡大涡的机会。

A maelstrom is a powerful often violent whirlpool that sucks in objects within a given radius.

大涡是一种强大且常常剧烈的涡， 会吸给定半径内的物体。

They saw nothing except a strong eddy breaking three cable lengths out, as if those sheets of water had been violently churned.

除了有百多米宽的大涡—好像水面受过猛烈的冲击—以外，他们什么也没有看见，只把事故发生的地点确切地记了下来。

There is a permanent whirlpool of storms on Jupiter known as the Great Red Spot, which has been churning for centuries.

木星上有永久的涡“大红斑”，它已经旋转了几百年。

The original Maelstrom, also known as the Mostenstraumen or Moskstraumen, is a channel located off the northwest coast of Norway that has dangerous tidal currents.

原始大涡，也称为 Mostenstraumen 或 Moskstraumen，是位于挪威西北海岸的一条海峡，具有危险的潮流。

Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf; a sullen white surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.

这时，一群小鸟还在那张着大嘴的涡上尖叫着飞翔；一阵愠怒的白浪拍打在这涡陡峭的周边；然后，一切都崩溃了，海洋那巨大的裹尸布又像五千年前那样继续不息地翻腾。

It was precisely the odd absence of surprise in her that gave him the sense of her having been plucked out of a very maelstrom: the things she took for granted gave the measure of those she had rebelled against.

恰恰是她奇怪的没有惊讶让他觉得她是从一非常大的涡中被拉出来的：她认为理所当然的事情衡量了她所反抗的事情。