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u-turn

/yoo-turn/US // ˈyuˌtɜrn //

转弯,转身,调头,掉头

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a U-shaped turn made by a vehicle so as to head in the opposite direction from its original course.
    • : a reversal of policy, tactics, or the like, resembling such a maneuver.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to execute a U-turn: to U-turn into oncoming traffic.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • 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.

  • U was an Usurer, a miserable elf; V was a Vintner, who drank all himself.

  • 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!