| 单词 | revolve |
| 释义 | revolve (once / 232 pages) v When something revolves, it turns on an axis or in an orbit around something else. People who love you probably think the world revolves around you (but really, the earth revolves around the sun). Revolve comes from those useful Latin roots re- "again" or "back" and volvere "roll," as seen in evolution, involve, and lots of other familiar words. Picture a revolving door, and you can understand what it means to revolve, or turn in a circular motion. WORD FAMILYrevolve: revolved, revolver, revolves, revolving+/revolver: revolvers USAGE EXAMPLESThis season opener, “The Six Thatchers,” revolves around finding someone who, for some reason, is seeking and destroying busts of Margaret Thatcher. New York Times(Jan 01, 2017) The new film revolves around Reynolds’s determination to keep performing and Fisher’s equal determination to protect her mother and see her hopes fulfilled. The Guardian(Dec 31, 2016) The most obvious revolves around hitting and being hit. The Guardian(Dec 29, 2016) 1v turn on or around an axis or a center The Earth revolves around the Sun Syn|Hypo|Hyper go around, rotate circumvolve, rotate cause to turn on an axis or center drive in, screw cause to penetrate, as with a circular motion screwturn like a screw wheel, wheel aroundchange directions as if revolving on a pivot gyrate, reel, spin, spin around, whirlrevolve quickly and repeatedly around one's own axis swirl, twiddle, twirl, whirlturn in a twisting or spinning motion screw upscrew or turn higher cartwheeldo cartwheels: perform an acrobatic movement using both hands and feet whirligigwhirl or spin like a whirligig turn move around an axis or a center 2v move in an orbit Syn|Hypo|Hyper orb, orbit retrograde move backward in an orbit, of celestial bodies circle, circulate move in circles 3v cause to move by turning over or in a circular manner of as if on an axis Syn|Hypo|Hyper roll roll, turn over move by turning over or rotating transit revolve (the telescope of a surveying transit) about its horizontal transverse axis in order to reverse its direction displace, move cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense |
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