gyre

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She is studying the now infamous garbage patch in the North Pacific gyre in the Pacific Ocean.
戈尔茨坦研究了漂浮在北太平洋环流系统的臭名昭著的垃圾岛。
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.)
这短短几个月的震惊，让他们把目光集中到一个可以在这不断扩大的旋涡中站住脚的人身上：一个名叫巴拉克•侯赛因•奥巴马的家伙。
The North Pacific gyre: A swirling island of 100m tonnes of plastic bits and bottle tops, spinsclockwise from Hawaii to Japan.
北太平洋环流：亦称北太平洋垃圾漩涡，是由一亿公吨塑料垃圾和瓶盖组成的旋转岛，按顺时针方向由夏威夷向日本旋转。

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