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单词 come (or turn) full circle
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come (or turn) full circle

Return to a past position or situation, especially in a way considered to be inevitable: the region is being forced to come full circle and repeat the errors of its tragic past now it seems the wheel has turned full circle—the western is being revived...
  • Her career came full circle with a return to cycling.
  • He has essentially come full circle, returning to the place where it all began some 17 years ago.
  • Mrs Glendinning has come full circle by returning to the school she attended as a pupil.
With reference to Shakespeare's King Lear v. iii. 165, ‘The Wheele is come full circle’: by association with the wheel represented in mythology and literature as turned by Fortune and symbolizing mutability
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