turn turtle 的定义
- Capsize, turn upside down, as in When they collided, the car turned turtle. This expression alludes to the helplessness of a turtle turned on its back, where its shell can no longer protect it. [First half of 1800s]
turn turtle 近义词
turn over
更多turn turtle例句
- So far, all the players seemed to be willing to wait their turn.
- Third parties in turn quibbled with his accounts, and he was irritated, but not overly so.
- An ace comedic turn that, in lesser hands, would come off as one-note.
- Who do you turn to now when you have a decision to make, when you have one less person to provide validation or advice?
- In other words, Florida clerks were no longer allowed to turn gay couples away.
- Turn away from sin and order thy hands aright, and cleanse thy heart from all offence.
- He shall give his mind to turn up furrows, and his care is to give the kine fodder.
- Turn not away thy face from thy neighbour, and of taking away a portion and not restoring.
- Turn we our backs to the cold gloomy north, to the wet windy west, to the dry parching east—on to the south!
- Acetone is derived from decomposition of diacetic acid, and this in turn from beta-oxybutyric acid by oxidation.