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revolving door

旋转门,回转门,旋门,旋转门事件

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an entrance door for excluding drafts from the interior of a building, usually consisting of four rigid leaves set in the form of a cross and rotating about a central, vertical pivot in the doorway.
    • : Informal. a company, institution, or organization with a high turnover of personnel or members.a legal, medical, or other system or agency that discharges criminals, patients, etc., in the shortest possible time and without adequate attention or consideration.

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  • The fact that the principal position has become a revolving door, preventing any one leader from gaining traction and exerting a consistent presence at the school.

  • Hiring is important, she said, but those new hires may head back through the revolving door if they find themselves in a culture that doesn’t support them.

  • Reid’s sense of pacing is sublime as she introduces and dispenses with a revolving door of characters to approximate the chaos of a rager where sloshed A-listers couple up in the closets and waiters pass trays of cocaine.

  • Their efforts have opened a revolving door between public and private interests.

  • The revolving door of leadership at Lincoln is nothing new to southeastern San Diego community members.

  • A guard is manning the door, which is always kept ajar so she can be monitored.

  • The kid from next door drops by and Marvin talks to him about the stunts in his latest film, Death Hunt.

  • They eye the door anxiously, convinced that at any moment, a Pakistani or Iranian intelligence officer will come barging in.

  • Gurley came out of stairwell door as the two cops approached.

  • This courageous act earned him a late-night knock on the door with orders for Serna to vamos from Cuba.

  • Before Ripperda could unclasp his lips to reply, the stranger had opened the door, and passed through it like a gliding shadow.

  • She looked so sweet when she said it, standing and smiling there in the middle of the floor, the door-way making a frame for her.

  • She walked away toward another door, which was masked with a curtain that she lifted.

  • Hilda, trembling at the door, more than half expected Mr. Orgreave to say: "You mean, she's invited herself."

  • Then the door opened, the portiere was swept aside, and Anselme announced "Monsieur de Garnache."