French-English translations for tourbillon

maelstromTogether with my professional colleagues, I have shuddered at the thought of who will be next in line and innocently drawn into this maelstrom. J'ai, au même titre que mes collègues professionnels, tremblé en tentant de savoir qui serait le prochain innocent happé par ce tourbillon. In that event, they will be sucked into the same maelstrom of violence and retaliation as the Americans have been. Dans cette éventualité, elles se trouveraient aspirées dans le même tourbillon de violence et de représailles que l’ont été les Américains.
swirlI swirled my brush around in the paint.

tornado
us
A tornado is a rotating column of air
tourbillon
vortex
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whirlpoolBut the position is serious when enterprise becomes the bubble on a whirlpool of speculation. Mais la situation devient sérieuse lorsque l'entreprise n'est plus qu'une bulle d'air dans le tourbillon spéculatif. A whirlpool is an instance of a vortex produced by ocean tides, or by a hole underneath where the water would drain out, such as in a bathtub.
whirlwindHowever, less emphasis has been placed on the whirlwind in which our currency would have found itself without the European Union's economic and monetary policy. Mais on a moins souligné le tourbillon dans lequel se serait retrouvée notre monnaie sans la politique économique et monétaire de l'Union européenne. The weeks leading up to the convention were a whirlwind of preparation and hurried activity.Once he got that new scooter he turned into a whirlwind and damaged all the flowers.

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