英语词汇“cycle”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词

cycle

释义

noun | verb

cyclecycle1 /ˈsaɪkəl/ ●○○ AWL noun [countable]

ETYMOLOGYcycle¹

Origin: 1300-1400 French Late Latin cyclus, from Greek kyklos circle, wheel, cycle

COLLOCATIONS► sleep cycle

Scientists studied the animal’s sleep cycle (=the regular pattern of events that happen when someone is asleep).

► break the cycle of

The program is intended to help people break the cycle of (=make a bad or damaging cycle stop repeating itself) poverty.

1a number of related events that happen again and again in the same order: Scientists studied the animal’s sleep cycle (=the regular pattern of events that happen when someone is asleep).cycle of the cycle of the seasons The program is intended to help people break the cycle of (=make a bad or damaging cycle stop repeating itself) poverty. → see also life cycle, vicious circle, menstrual cycle2science, physics one complete process in which something such as a sound wave goes up to its highest point, then down to its lowest point and back to the middle point3the period of time needed for a machine to finish a process: This washing machine has a 28-minute cycle.4science, biology, earth science the process in which chemical elements, minerals, etc. are used by living things and then returned to the earth or the air when living things breathe, excrete, die, etc.: Water, carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus cycles are among the most important cycles for the health of an ecosystem.5eng. lang. arts a series of poems or songs on the same subject6a bicycle or motorcycle [Origin: 1300–1400 French, Late Latin cyclus, from Greek kyklos circle, wheel, cycle]

noun | verb

cyclecycle2 ●○○ AWL verb [intransitive]

VERB TABLE

cycle

Simple Form
Present	I, you, we, they	cycle
	he, she, it	cycles
Past	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	cycled
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have cycled
	he, she, it	has cycled
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had cycled
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will cycle
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have cycled

Continuous Form
Present	I	am cycling
	he, she, it	is cycling
	you, we, they	are cycling
Past	I, he, she, it	was cycling
	you, we, they	were cycling
Present perfect	I, you, we, they	have been cycling
	he, she, it	has been cycling
Past perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	had been cycling
Future	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will be cycling
Future perfect	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will have been cycling

1to travel by bicycle SYN ride: I run or cycle at least three times a week.2to go through a series of actions, changes, or events that happen again and again in the same order: The computer is continually cycling through the data.

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