gyre

音標發(fā)音

She is studying the now infamous garbage patch in the North Pacific gyre in the Pacific Ocean.
戈爾茨坦研究了漂浮在北太平洋環(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.)
這短短幾個月的震驚，讓他們把目光集中到一個可以在這不斷擴大的旋渦中站住腳的人身上：一個名叫巴拉克?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