| 单词 | circumnavigate |
| 释义 | circumnavigate (once / 8377 pages) v Circumnavigate means to travel around in a big circle. When you circumnavigate the world, will you do it in a boat or a hot air balloon? Circumnavigate breaks down to circum-, "around," and navigare, "to navigate." It was first used in the era when sailors were trying to find new lands they didn't know about, and so the "around" in question was the trip around the entire earth. We also use circumnavigate to describe going around something that's too hard to go through, like when you circumnavigate the massive crowds in Times Square on New Year's Eve. WORD FAMILYcircumnavigate: circumnavigated, circumnavigates, circumnavigating, circumnavigation+/circumnavigation: circumnavigations/navigable: navigability, unnavigable/navigate: circumnavigate, navigable, navigated, navigates, navigating, navigation, navigator/navigation: navigational, navigations/navigational: navigationally/navigator: navigators USAGE EXAMPLESThe agency circumnavigated the Administrative Procedure Act that controls formal rule-making by deeming the regulation a proposed determination with a “technical support document.” Wall Street Journal(Dec 03, 2016) Queue-sitting is only one of many such shortcuts that Indians are taking to circumnavigate the cash crisis. The Guardian(Nov 27, 2016) “Sometimes we go forward,” he said, but then had to circumnavigate the phrase “sometimes we go backward.” The New Yorker(Nov 10, 2016) v travel around, either by plane or ship Syn|Hyper compass circle travel around something |
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