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cyclical

/sahy-kli-kuhl, sik-li-/US // ˈsaɪ klɪ kəl, ˈsɪk lɪ- //

周期性,周期性的,周期,循环

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : cyclic.
    • : of or denoting a business or stock whose income, value, or earnings fluctuate widely according to variations in the economy or the cycle of the seasons: Selling Christmas decorations is a cyclical business.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Usually cyclicals. stocks of cyclical companies.

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Examples

  • Meanwhile, the new Candyman takes care to remind us that the violence that gave birth to its titular killer is cyclical.

  • The elements of Candyman that are real are, after all, cyclical.

  • It explores how urgent her episodes are, her self-loathing afterward, and the cyclical nature of her pledging never to do it again—“this is the last time”—only to fall back into old patterns.

  • He decides to break out of his cyclical life and become the hero himself.

  • Either way, Michael Raupp, an entomology professor emeritus at the University of Maryland, College Park, says the cicadas’ massive cyclical emergence makes them fascinating to study.

  • Another big factor in the evaporating deficit has been similarly cyclical.

  • Yet American minimalism, isolationism, realism, mind-our-own-business-ism—whatever you want to call it—is cyclical.

  • A patchwork of building shells and cratered streets, the city tells of a cyclical war, still smoldering.

  • Keynes gave us the concept of counter-cyclical investment to get people to work.

  • In Middlesex history is not just determinative; it is also cyclical.

  • The Elegies have never before been published as here, together in the cyclical form of their original conception.

  • A vast preponderance of all the action that takes place around us is cyclical action.

  • Understanding of the large cyclical forces has continued to elude us.

  • Feminine education comes and goes, so though in less markedly cyclical fashion does masculine education.

  • The presence of radionuclides in the atmosphere has provided clues to cyclical movements of biological importance.