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单词 to take turns
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to take turns
(d) to take turns: (of two or more people) to alternate in doing something, typically so that each person does or has his or her fair share.With the activity or task implied by the context or specified by a following gerund, infinitive, or prepositional phrase.
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1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage ii. vii. 115 [They] tooke turnes by course, in perfourming of the same.
1633 T. James Strange Voy. 79 Our young lustiest men tooke turnes, to goe into the water.
1726 A. Boyer Polit. State Great Brit. Oct. 344 That..the Vestry do take Turns in Visiting the Work-house once a Week.
1775 London Mag Nov. 575/1 The girls of her acquaintance took turns to be with her night and day.
1838 E. Beecher Narr. Riots at Alton vi. 101 It was agreed that the company should be divided into sections of six, and take turns on successive nights.
1871 S. D. Nickerson Bread-winners xv. 163 We take turns going home early.
1950 C. E. Goode Yarns of Yilgarn 88 We all took turns to work below.
1985 T. O'Brien Nucl. Age ix. 184 Down on the beach, taking turns, we pitched grenades at mock enemy bunkers.
2015 P. Hawkins Girl on Train 54 She and her friends take turns cooking each other dinner.
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