单词 | around |
释义 | around I. 1. a. < the wheel kept going around > < the track is a mile around > b. < waltz your partner around again > < the wind has gone around to the south > c. < the road goes around by the lake > 2. a. < the water of this well is famous for miles around > b. < the old house is hemmed around by new apartments > < people crowded around to look at the wreck > c. < you have time to stay around a while > 3. a. < for a year he traveled around from state to state > < the news soon got around > b. < invited him to come around for supper > c. < it was a long time before he got around to reading the book > < we'll get around to the work in the morning > 4. a. < another winter has come around > < he passed the candy around to his guests > b. < the region has a mild climate the year around > c. < the other way around > d. < medicines that will bring the invalids around > 5. < all he could do was stand around and wait > 6. a. < suddenly he turned around > b. < the public's reaction soon brought the legislators around > 7. < the book runs to around 500 pages > < he comes at around the same time every day > • - been around II. 1. a. < a neat yard with a fence around it > : so as to encircle or enclose : about < threw her arm around his neck > < several people seated around the table > b. < around the world in 80 days > or partial circuit of < a voyage around Cape Horn > : so as to follow the curving course of < coming around the bend of the river > c. < leaping over fences and dodging around boulders > 2. a. < the fields around the village > : in the same region with < the country around the source of the Nile > b. < only the men around the president knew of his illness > 3. a. < stood looking around him > b. < primitive societies which are organized around kinship ties — Weston La Barre > 4. a. < constantly traveling around the country > b. < wandering restlessly around the house > III. 1. < he has been up and around for two days > 2. < one of the most alertly intelligent of the artists around today — R.M.Coates > < the troubles arising out of lack of money have been around for a long time — Murray Illson > |
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