round
adj. 圆/球/环/弧形的; 整数的
adv. (在)周围; 围绕; 到处; 转过来; 绕弯; 依次; 到某地; 大概
prep. 围(绕); 绕过; 遍及; 基于; 克服; 大概
n. 轮,局,回合; 惯常活动; 递送路线; 一巡饮料; 一阵; 一枪; 圆块
v. 绕过; 变圆; 四舍五入
To be positioned round a place or object means to surround it or be on all sides of it. To move round a place means to go along its edge, back to the point where you started.
They were sitting round the kitchen table...
他们正围坐在餐桌旁。
The nightdress has handmade lace round the armholes and neckline...
这件女式睡衣的袖孔和领口都镶着一圈手织花边。
If you move round a corner or obstacle, you move to the other side of it. If you look round a corner or obstacle, you look to see what is on the other side.
Suddenly a car came round a corner on the opposite side...
突然,对面的街角处拐过一辆汽车。
Stay on the left-hand pavement to follow a road downhill round a curve...
继续顺着左边的人行道拐一个弯,然后沿路下山。
You use round to say that something happens in or relates to different parts of a place, or is near a place.
He happens to own half the land round here...
他恰好拥有这里一半的土地。
I think he has earned the respect of leaders all round the world...
我想他已经赢得了世界各国领导人的尊重。
If a wheel or object spins round, it turns on its axis.
Holes can be worn remarkably quickly by a wheel going round at 60mph...
以每小时60英里的速度前进的车轮很快就会磨出洞来。
Stars appeared everywhere, spinning round and round, faster and faster.
满眼金星乱转,而且越转越快。
If you turn round, you turn so that you are facing or going in the opposite direction.
She paused, but did not turn round...
她停了一下,但是并没有转身。
The end result was that the ship had to turn round, and go back to Djibouti...
最后的结果是这艘船不得不掉转方向,驶回吉布提。
If you move things round, you move them so they are in different places.
He will be glad to refurnish where possible, change things round and redecorate...
他会很乐意尽可能添置些家具,把东西挪一挪,然后重新装饰。
I've already moved things round a bit to make it easier for him.
我已经把东西挪了挪,好让他更方便。
If you hand or pass something round, it is passed from person to person in a group.
John handed round the plate of sandwiches.
约翰把那盘三明治传给大家。
...as the whiskey bottle is passed round.
当大家传递威士忌酒瓶的时候
If you go round to someone's house, you visit them.
I think we should go round and tell Kevin to turn his music down...
我觉得我们应该去凯文家让他把音乐的声音调小一些。
He came round with a bottle of champagne.
他带着一瓶香槟过来了。
You use round in informal expressions such as sit round or hang round when you are saying that someone is spending time in a place and is not doing anything very important.
As we sat round chatting, I began to think I'd made a mistake...
当我们坐在那里聊天时,我开始认为自己犯了一个错误。
I was running round all hyped up.
我兴奋地跑来跑去。
If something is built or based round a particular idea, that idea is the basis for it.
That was for a design built round an existing American engine...
那是用在以现有的一种美国发动机为基础的设计之上的。
The core of the Festival's programme centres round performances of new and 20th century work.
这个音乐节最重要的节目以演奏20世纪的作品和新作为主。
If you get round a problem or difficulty, you find a way of dealing with it.
Don't just immediately give up but think about ways round a problem...
不要马上放弃,应该想想解决问题的办法。
There are ways of getting round most things!
有几种可以解决大多数问题的方法。
If you win someone round, or if they come round, they change their mind about something and start agreeing with you.
He did his best to talk me round, but I wouldn't speak to him...
他竭力想要说服我改变主意,但是我不愿意跟他讲话。
The Chandler twins were coming round to the same opinion.
钱德勒家的这对双胞胎也最终统一了意见。
You use round in expressions such as this time round or to come round when you are describing something that has happened before or things that happen regularly.
In the past, the elections have been marked by hundreds of murders, but this time round the violence has been much more limited...
在过去,这些选举中总是会发生数百起谋杀案,但这一次暴力事件已经非常少了。
Of course, it isn't the same first time round...
当然,这不同于第一次了。
You can use round to give the measurement of the outside of something that is shaped like a circle or a cylinder.
I'm about two inches larger round the waist.
我的腰围大概粗了两英寸。
...forty-eight inches round the hips.
臀围48英寸
You use round in front of times or amounts to indicate that they are approximate.
I go to bed round 11:00 at night.
我大约晚上11点上床睡觉。
In spoken English, round about means approximately.
Round about one and a half million people died.
大概有150万人死亡。
...a system that was abolished round about 1902.
大约在1902年被废除的制度
You say all round to emphasize that something affects all parts of a situation or all members of a group.
It ought to make life much easier all round...
它应该会让生活的方方面面都变得更加方便。
Nerves are frayed all round.
每一根神经都绷紧了。
If you say that something is going round and round in your head, you mean that you can't stop thinking about it.
It all keeps going round and round in my head till I don't know where I am.
这一直在我脑海里萦绕,直到我不知身在何处。
If something happens all year round, it happens throughout the year.
Many of these plants are evergreen, so you can enjoy them all year round...
这些植物中有很多都是四季常青的,所以一年到头都可以观赏。
It's a treat to be enjoyed all the year round.
这是全年都能享受到的款待。
1. a charge of ammunition for a single shot
2. an interval during which a recurring sequence of events occurs;
3. a regular route for a sentry or policeman;
4. (often plural) a series of professional calls (usually in a set order);
5. the activity of playing 18 holes of golf;
6. the usual activities in your day;
7. (sports) a period of play during which one team is on the offensive
8. the course along which communications spread;
9. a serving to each of a group (usually alcoholic);
10. a cut of beef between the rump and the lower leg
11. a partsong in which voices follow each other; one voice starts and others join in one after another until all are singing different parts of the song at the same time;
12. an outburst of applause;
13. a crosspiece between the legs of a chair
14. any circular or rotating mechanism;
1. wind around; move along a circular course;
2. make round;
3. be around;
4. pronounce with rounded lips
5. attack in speech or writing;
6. bring to a highly developed, finished, or refined state;
7. express as a round number;
8. become round, plump, or shapely;
1. having a circular shape
2. (of sounds) full and rich;
3. (of numbers) to the nearest ten, hundred, or thousand;
1. from beginning to end; throughout;
about, around, round
这些词均有"在周围,在附近"之意。
round on
突然攻击,责骂
round up
驱拢;集拢
赶拢:把(牛群)从不同的地方赶到一块儿
go the round (或 rounds)
(故事,笑话)传遍;传播
round about
在…周围,环绕;在附近
大致,约略
round the bend
round the twist
round something off
把…修圆磨光
round something out
使更完美;圆满完成
round someone/thing up
集拢(分散的人),赶拢;驱拢(牲口)
in the round
舞台设在观众中央的
形状完整并可脱离背景的
make the rounds 或 go the rounds
巡回:从一地到另一地,如巡回出差或旅行
在众人中传播:一个人接一个人的传播
How do you demonstrate that the earth is round?
你怎样证明地球是圆的?
He has been hiking round Scotland for a month.
他围着苏格兰徒步旅行了一个月.
The children flocked round their teacher.
孩子们会聚在他们老师的周围.
They'll catch a packet if they try to go round the points.
如果他们要绕过那个小岬就会有葬身鱼腹的危险.
Turn the picture round to face the wall.
把画转过去面对墙.