| 单词 | around and around |
| 释义 | > as lemmasaround and around a. In a circular or orbital course; so as to make a complete circuit. Also reduplicated to indicate repetition, as around and around.Also in figurative contexts implying aimlessness or lack of purpose (cf. sense A. 10). to go around in circles, etc.: see the noun. ΚΠ c1550 Clariodus (1830) i. 1502 When Phebus bricht had rune his course around. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. ii. sig. O6 An yearely solemne feast she wontes to make The day that first doth lead around. 1596 J. Davies Orchestra xxxvii. sig. B Vnder that spangled skye, fiue wandring flames, Besides the King of Day, and Queene of Night, Are wheel'd around. 1621 W. Slatyer Hist. Great Britanie ix. iv. 233 Where Church and all, laid leuell ground, Wilde Deere or Satyr's dance around. 1755 W. Huggins & T. H. Croker tr. L. Ariosto Orlando Furioso I. iv. 49 He took his way where does exactly fall The Sun, when with the Crab he goes around. 1835 16th Ann. Rep. N.-Y. Inst. for Instr. Deaf & Dumb 1834 App. 57 I saw the clouds going around and around. 1866 A. H. Rockwell Improved & Pract. Syst. Educating Horse 136 Take hold of his [sc. a dog's] hind-legs, lift them up and walk him around in a circle. 1891 Arthur's Home Mag. May 416/1 Funnel cakes... Begin in the middle of the pan, allowing the batter to run through the funnel, winding it around and around. 1931 R. W. Gordon in A. T. Smythe et al. Carolina Low Country 199 The shouters form a circle and proceed around and around in a sort of slow processional. 1976 T. Hooper Guide to Bees & Honey ii. 37 It is quite startling when you first see the apiary a-buzz with thousands of bees circling around. 2015 National Post (Canada) (Nexis) 23 May wp 2 Around and around we go. Buying, stuffing our faces, dying. around and around Also reduplicated to indicate repetition, as around and around. See also money makes the world go around, money makes the wheels go around at money n. Phrases 3c.extracted from aroundadv.prep.around and around Also reduplicated to indicate repetition, as around and around.extracted from aroundadv.prep.around and around Also reduplicated to indicate repetition, as around and around.extracted from aroundadv.prep.< as lemmas |
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