English Dictionary

death spiral

名詞

広義 比喩的用法

(aviation) The downward, corkscrew-motion of a disabled aircraft which is unrecoverably headed for a crash.

日本語の意味

航空機などが制御不能になった状態で、らせん状に急降下し、回復不能な状態で墜落する動きを指す。

The flight recorder revealed the aircraft went into a death spiral after the tail separated.

フライトレコーダーは、尾部が分離した後、航空機が回復不能ならせん降下に陥ったことを明らかにした。

意味（1）

(aviation) The downward, corkscrew-motion of a disabled aircraft which is unrecoverably headed for a crash.

“We call this getting yourself in a square corner, when you run out of ideas and experience at the same time,” said Mr. Barr, a fighter pilot in the Vietnam War. “[…] Even for a good pilot, that could produce a death spiral.”

意味（2）

(pairs figure skating) A manoeuvre in which a male skater spins in place while holding one hand of his female skating partner as she circles around him with one skate on the ice and one leg extended outward parallel to the ice surface, all the while slowly lowering herself until her back almost touches the ice surface.

There are four types of death spirals, named for the edge on which the lady is skating—forward outside, forward inside, back outside, or back inside.

意味（3）

(figuratively, by extension) The situation or course of action of one who is on a path toward some sort of inevitable catastrophic failure.

But what followed for Lozano, his grieving family claims, was a death spiral into infantilism and madness.

death spirals （ plural ）