gyre

音標(biāo)發(fā)音

She is studying the now infamous garbage patch in the North Pacific gyre in the Pacific Ocean.
戈?duì)柎奶寡芯苛似≡诒碧窖蟓h(huán)流系統(tǒng)的臭名昭著的垃圾島。
Astounding as it would have seemed scant months before, their gaze fell on the one fixed point in the widening gyre: a guy named Barack Hussein Obama. ( See pictures of Barack Obama's family tree.)
這短短幾個(gè)月的震驚，讓他們把目光集中到一個(gè)可以在這不斷擴(kuò)大的旋渦中站住腳的人身上：一個(gè)名叫巴拉克?侯賽因?奧巴馬的家伙。
The North Pacific gyre: A swirling island of 100m tonnes of plastic bits and bottle tops, spinsclockwise from Hawaii to Japan.
北太平洋環(huán)流：亦稱北太平洋垃圾漩渦，是由一億公噸塑料垃圾和瓶蓋組成的旋轉(zhuǎn)島，按順時(shí)針方向由夏威夷向日本旋轉(zhuǎn)。

The waters surrounding the Great Pacific Ocean Garbage Patch are known as the North Pacific Gyre.

Someday, though, Goudey pictures a mobile fish farm that could work like this: Put hatchlings in cages into a Caribbean gyre near Barbados.
FORBES: Breakthroughs

a circular pattern of ocean currents (= flows of water in a particular direction)
to move in circles