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revolve

/ri-volv/US // rɪˈvɒlv //UK // (rɪˈvɒlv) //

转动,循环,旋转,运转

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v.无主动词 verb
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    re·volved, re·volv·ing.

    • : to move in a circular or curving course or orbit: The earth revolves around the sun.
    • : to turn around or rotate, as on an axis: The wheel revolves slowly.
    • : to proceed or occur in a round or cycle; come around again in the process of time; recur.
    • : to be revolved in the mind.
    • : to focus or center on.
v.有主动词 verb
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    re·volved, re·volv·ing.

    • : to cause to turn around, as on an axis.
    • : to cause to move in a circular or curving course, as about a central point.
    • : to think about; consider.

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Examples

  • The story revolves around Daphne, a young American woman who has come to the city of her parents’ birth to explore her heritage.

  • The biggest argument for Rivers’s Hall of Fame entry revolves around his total passing yards and touchdowns.

  • Marketing strategy will still revolve around data, but in a different ecosystem.

  • It revolves around a problem that, curiously, is both solved and unsolved, closed and open.

  • All those conversations we had about whether and when to become parents revolved around a future that is no longer ours.

  • Somehow, everything in the world has to revolve around men here, men and their parts.

  • Our debates about federal budgets still revolve around degrees of imposed austerity.

  • In the 1980s and 1990s, blockbusters were star vehicles; now they revolve around brands (Marvel Comics) and concepts (vampires).

  • Although many of his films revolve around a past time, Wolf is not a nostalgic.

  • “Prison has taught me that the world does not revolve around me,” he says.

  • About this centre the spheres revolve, each in a way swinging around the other.

  • The center wheel must revolve once in each hour, which is 61⁄2 times faster than the barrel.

  • The several plans I revolve in my mind do not prove, upon closer examination, feasible.

  • The vapours revolve, the waves spin, the giddy Naiads roll; sea and sky are livid; noises as of cries of despair are in the air.

  • When the current is applied, the disk will revolve in a direction relative to the position of the poles on the magnet.