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单词 merry-go-round
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Definition of merry-go-round in English:

merry-go-round

noun ˈmɛrɪɡəʊraʊndˈmɛri ɡoʊ ˌraʊnd
  • 1A revolving machine with model horses or cars on which people ride for amusement.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The film is based on a Disney theme park ride, but feels like a creaky merry-go-round compared with the thrilling rollercoaster that was Pirates Of The Caribbean.
    • Instead, after a little fight with Phoebe, Holden ends up accompanying her to the park and watching as she rides the merry-go-round, stretching from her wooden horse to reach a prized brass ring.
    • Despite " modernisation " of the city, primitive amusement rides like manual merry-go-rounds and " giant " wheels proved a big hit with children.
    • The electric rides in the second park too have their share of eager-beaver customers who giggle and scream through the train ride, the merry-go-round and the horse and the duck rides.
    • It is no more a genuine off-road vehicle than that carving on the merry-go-round is a genuine horse.
    • He was the one who introduced me to books and took me to Coney Island to ride on the merry-go-round.
    • A Ferris wheel pokes above the palm trees in the affluent district of Zaitoona; at neighbourhood funfairs, parents usher their children on to the rides, slides and merry-go-rounds.
    • After riding bareback on the merry-go-round, Colette asked if she could try one colorful game she spotted on the way to the carousel.
    • Giant wheels, merry-go-rounds and ‘shooting points’ were teeming with enthusiastic children and adults alike.
    • In Strangers on a Train, Farley Granger is holding desperately onto the pole of one of the horses of an out-of-control merry-go-round.
    • Not even the story about how she made me walk to the supermarket with her so she could ride the children's merry-go-round.
    • ‘The funfair has bouncy castles, merry-go-rounds and swings which are providing facilities for play and social interaction for children,’ she said.
    • On the brighter side was the dad and daughter duo I'd seen a month before riding the merry-go-round.
    • Waltzers, dodgems, helter-skelters and one or two old fashioned merry-go-rounds with properly painted horses.
    • Starting up the machine would play the music, and it would sound like a merry-go-round at an amusement park.
    • There were lots of fun and games for both children and adults from the coconut shy and the death slide to a merry-go-round and a bouncy castle.
    • They rode the merry-go-round, the Ferris wheel, the roller coaster, and a weird little spinning thing that you propelled yourself, and Dana had never had so much fun in her life.
    • It's a market style atmosphere all night with food vendors galore, market stalls offering fresh local produce, carnival games and rides for the kids including a merry-go-round and mini jeeps.
    • Looking at the available rides, the four friends could see a large Ferris wheel, a colorful merry-go-round, funhouses, a popular roller coaster and many more.
    • The rides varied from the sluggish merry-go-rounds to the fast roller coasters.
    Synonyms
    carousel
    British roundabout
    archaic whirligig
    1. 1.1 A continuous cycle of activities or events, especially when regarded as pointless.
      the football management merry-go-round
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Aberdeen has been a merry-go-round for managers and most fans now want stability.
      • I suspect he really wants to say that on the eternal merry-go-round of economic models, no economic theory has a true proponent, that ‘real economists are not proponents of any theory’.
      • Now, a depressing injury and two years of highs, lows and managerial merry-go-rounds later, he contents himself with mere realities.
      • However, it's not all bad news on the unification merry-go-round.
      • So the merry-go-round of pseudo-debate will continue.
      • At lower division level you can talk of managerial merry-go-rounds.
      • April has been a merry-go-round of a month, stuffed full with business, things to do and highs and lows of all kinds.
      • Passion, talent and genuine desire to make a difference inspire many but on the consumerist merry-go-round some of us ride, success is often equated with a fat pay cheque.
      • Life was not always rosy, though, and he fell off the managerial merry-go-round at Kalmar in 1999.
      • A wild west slippery slide, merry-go-round, trail bikes and furry Easter Bunny all coloured the fair, but a helicopter joyride was the biggest drawcard for three-year-old Georgia.
      • Now, what next on the managerial merry-go-round?
      • Even before he stepped on the self-indulgent, self-destructive merry-go-round of birds and booze, bankruptcy and jail.
      • Even here in a holiday resort town we get caught up with the craziness of the daily merry-go-round and become progressively exhausted and burnt out.
      • All have proved that there is more to football than Scotland's narrow-minded managerial merry-go-round.
      • Without context we end up on a merry-go-round of activity and movement that never seems to get us to where we want to be.
      • Fund management is a merry-go-round with what talent there is often on the move.
      • Players turn into disappointments, teams underachieve and the managerial merry-go-round starts anew.
      • Building toward inclusion is a process that takes sustained effort, much like keeping a merry-go-round spinning.
      • This could lead to a merry-go-round situation where difficult pupils are moved from one school to the next.
      • And so it's very likely that the first bed, if you like, that's found is not going to be suitable or possible or available, and so children simply move round until they stop, it's like a merry-go-round.
      • Maritimo have been giving the managerial merry-go-round a vigorous whirl of late.
      Synonyms
      succession, series, sequence, progression, string, chain, cycle, round
    2. 1.2British as modifier Denoting freight trains which deliver bulk loads of coal from collieries to power stations on a continuous cycle, loading and unloading automatically while moving.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Nottinghamshire pioneered the ‘merry-go-round train system'’ where coal was taken from pit to power station in permanently coupled diesel hauled trains.
      • There's the merry-go-round line for coal trains to Eggborough Power Station and a new spur line at Whitley Bridge for the wood-burning power plant.
      • Occasionally a merry-go-round train passes along the line.
 
 

Definition of merry-go-round in US English:

merry-go-round

nounˈmerē ɡō ˌroundˈmɛri ɡoʊ ˌraʊnd
  • 1A revolving machine with model horses or other animals on which people ride for amusement.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The rides varied from the sluggish merry-go-rounds to the fast roller coasters.
    • It is no more a genuine off-road vehicle than that carving on the merry-go-round is a genuine horse.
    • They rode the merry-go-round, the Ferris wheel, the roller coaster, and a weird little spinning thing that you propelled yourself, and Dana had never had so much fun in her life.
    • Looking at the available rides, the four friends could see a large Ferris wheel, a colorful merry-go-round, funhouses, a popular roller coaster and many more.
    • Giant wheels, merry-go-rounds and ‘shooting points’ were teeming with enthusiastic children and adults alike.
    • In Strangers on a Train, Farley Granger is holding desperately onto the pole of one of the horses of an out-of-control merry-go-round.
    • On the brighter side was the dad and daughter duo I'd seen a month before riding the merry-go-round.
    • Starting up the machine would play the music, and it would sound like a merry-go-round at an amusement park.
    • Despite " modernisation " of the city, primitive amusement rides like manual merry-go-rounds and " giant " wheels proved a big hit with children.
    • He was the one who introduced me to books and took me to Coney Island to ride on the merry-go-round.
    • Not even the story about how she made me walk to the supermarket with her so she could ride the children's merry-go-round.
    • There were lots of fun and games for both children and adults from the coconut shy and the death slide to a merry-go-round and a bouncy castle.
    • After riding bareback on the merry-go-round, Colette asked if she could try one colorful game she spotted on the way to the carousel.
    • A Ferris wheel pokes above the palm trees in the affluent district of Zaitoona; at neighbourhood funfairs, parents usher their children on to the rides, slides and merry-go-rounds.
    • ‘The funfair has bouncy castles, merry-go-rounds and swings which are providing facilities for play and social interaction for children,’ she said.
    • Waltzers, dodgems, helter-skelters and one or two old fashioned merry-go-rounds with properly painted horses.
    • The electric rides in the second park too have their share of eager-beaver customers who giggle and scream through the train ride, the merry-go-round and the horse and the duck rides.
    • It's a market style atmosphere all night with food vendors galore, market stalls offering fresh local produce, carnival games and rides for the kids including a merry-go-round and mini jeeps.
    • Instead, after a little fight with Phoebe, Holden ends up accompanying her to the park and watching as she rides the merry-go-round, stretching from her wooden horse to reach a prized brass ring.
    • The film is based on a Disney theme park ride, but feels like a creaky merry-go-round compared with the thrilling rollercoaster that was Pirates Of The Caribbean.
    Synonyms
    carousel
    1. 1.1 A large revolving device in a playground, for children to ride on.
    2. 1.2 A continuous cycle of activities or events, especially when perceived as having no purpose or producing no result.
      the football management merry-go-round
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Even before he stepped on the self-indulgent, self-destructive merry-go-round of birds and booze, bankruptcy and jail.
      • Aberdeen has been a merry-go-round for managers and most fans now want stability.
      • Now, what next on the managerial merry-go-round?
      • Building toward inclusion is a process that takes sustained effort, much like keeping a merry-go-round spinning.
      • At lower division level you can talk of managerial merry-go-rounds.
      • And so it's very likely that the first bed, if you like, that's found is not going to be suitable or possible or available, and so children simply move round until they stop, it's like a merry-go-round.
      • So the merry-go-round of pseudo-debate will continue.
      • However, it's not all bad news on the unification merry-go-round.
      • Life was not always rosy, though, and he fell off the managerial merry-go-round at Kalmar in 1999.
      • April has been a merry-go-round of a month, stuffed full with business, things to do and highs and lows of all kinds.
      • Maritimo have been giving the managerial merry-go-round a vigorous whirl of late.
      • This could lead to a merry-go-round situation where difficult pupils are moved from one school to the next.
      • I suspect he really wants to say that on the eternal merry-go-round of economic models, no economic theory has a true proponent, that ‘real economists are not proponents of any theory’.
      • Even here in a holiday resort town we get caught up with the craziness of the daily merry-go-round and become progressively exhausted and burnt out.
      • All have proved that there is more to football than Scotland's narrow-minded managerial merry-go-round.
      • Passion, talent and genuine desire to make a difference inspire many but on the consumerist merry-go-round some of us ride, success is often equated with a fat pay cheque.
      • A wild west slippery slide, merry-go-round, trail bikes and furry Easter Bunny all coloured the fair, but a helicopter joyride was the biggest drawcard for three-year-old Georgia.
      • Players turn into disappointments, teams underachieve and the managerial merry-go-round starts anew.
      • Without context we end up on a merry-go-round of activity and movement that never seems to get us to where we want to be.
      • Fund management is a merry-go-round with what talent there is often on the move.
      • Now, a depressing injury and two years of highs, lows and managerial merry-go-rounds later, he contents himself with mere realities.
      Synonyms
      succession, series, sequence, progression, string, chain, cycle, round
 
 
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