Revolve
[rɪ'vɒlv] or [rɪ'vɔlv]
解释:
(verb.) turn on or around an axis or a center; 'The Earth revolves around the Sun'; 'The lamb roast rotates on a spit over the fire'.
格雷戈里录入--From WordNet
解释:
(v. i.) To turn or roll round on, or as on, an axis, like a wheel; to rotate, -- which is the more specific word in this sense.
(v. i.) To move in a curved path round a center; as, the planets revolve round the sun.
(v. i.) To pass in cycles; as, the centuries revolve.
(v. i.) To return; to pass.
(v. t.) To cause to turn, as on an axis.
(v. t.) Hence, to turn over and over in the mind; to reflect repeatedly upon; to consider all aspects of.
欧文整理
同义词及近义词:
v. n. Rotate, wheel, turn, whirl, circulate, roll, gyrate, go round, turn round.
v. a. Consider, meditate, ponder, study, reflect upon, ruminate upon, brood over.
埃尔温整理
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Contemplate, turn, consider, weigh, ponder, examine, wheel, rotate, circulate
ANT:Discard, disregard, dismiss, misconsider
尤因整理
解释:
v.i. to roll back: to roll round on an axis: to move round a centre: to rotate as the planets: to meditate.—v.t. to cause to turn: to consider.—n. a radical change.—v.i. Rev′olute to revolve.—adj. rolled backward.—adjs. Rev′olūtive cogitating; Revol′vable.—ns. Revolve′ment reflection; Revol′vency revolution.—adj. Revol′ving turning moving round.—ns. Revol′ving-fur′nace a furnace used in making black ash; Revol′ving-light a lamp in a lighthouse so arranged as to appear and disappear at intervals.
伊莱扎录入
例句:
- It is next passed to the cooking department and placed in huge steam-jacketed kettles, which revolve continually and thus keep the chicle from scorching. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- Ordinarily the gun has ten barrels, with ten corresponding locks, which revolve together during the working of the gun. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- A circular disk, bearing a circular series of figures is mounted on a handle to revolve. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- Donkin and Bacon proposed placing the types upon a prism, which was to revolve against an irregularly shaped cylinder, on which the paper was to be placed. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
- Among the century's improvements in this line is the use of disks in place of the old shovel blades to penetrate the earth and revolve in contact therewith. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- They were like those double stars which revolve round and round each other, and from a distance appear to be one. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- The velocity with which the pump should revolve depends upon the height to which the water is to be raised. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
- Inside it there revolves another cylinder, made also of thin sheet iron, and divided into four compartments, marked _d_, _d_, _d_, _d_. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
- This interior cylinder readily revolves on an axis, _g_, _g_, shown in the section of the instrument as seen edgewise. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
- The bolster is an upright sleeve bearing, in which the spindle revolves, and against which is sustained the pull of the band that drives the spindle. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- When politics revolves mechanically it ceases to use the real energies of a nation. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- In 1784, Mr. Bramah obtained a patent for a propeller similar in its forms to the vanes of a windmill, which by acting obliquely on the water as it revolved, pushed the boat forward. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
- Only so much of this disc was exposed to view as to show a single letter at a time, through a small aperture, as the seconds wheel revolved. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
- The contrivance was a mere toy, employing no light and being merely a little machine which, when revolved, gave figures, printed in different positions, the semblance of motion. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- In Tarzan's clever little mind many thoughts revolved, and back of these was his divine power of reason. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- The heat, of whatever origin, is applied from below, and the shaft being revolved, four of the armatures lose their magnetism constantly, while the other four gain it, so to speak. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- I revolved a thousand and a thousand plans. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- I revolved many projects; but that on which I finally fixed was, to enter the dwelling when the blind old man should be alone. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
- Fitch’s first boat employed a system of paddles suspended by their handles from cranks, which, in revolving, gave the paddles a motion simulating that which the Indian imparts to his paddle. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- The annexed woodcuts show the figure of this Revolver, with the working parts round the lock exposed to view, together with the shape of the revolving chambered breech. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
- The wheel is kept revolving, and a man on one side is kept constantly busy in filling the molds with the molten material as they reach him. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- When this high speed is attained, masses of rock weighing several tons in one or more pieces are dumped into a hopper which guides them into the gap between the rapidly revolving rolls. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- It must be revolving by itself. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- In 1806 Gladstone devised a front-draft, side-cut machine, in which a curved segment-bar with fingers gathered the grain and held it while a horizontally revolving knife cut the same. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- A point worth considering; and while revolving it, I mechanically dressed. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
校对:惠特尼