Gyrate
[dʒaɪ'rəɪt] or ['dʒaɪret]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) to wind or move in a spiral course; 'the muscles and nerves of his fine drawn body were coiling for action'; 'black smoke coiling up into the sky'; 'the young people gyrated on the dance floor'.
錄入:库尔特--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Winding or coiled round; curved into a circle; taking a circular course.
(n.) To revolve round a central point; to move spirally about an axis, as a tornado; to revolve.
整理:塔尼娅
同義詞及近義詞:
v. n. Rotate, revolve, whirl, turn round, wheel round, move in a circle.
休伯特校對
解釋/意思:
v.i. to whirl round a central point: to move round.—adj. (bot.) winding round.—n. Gyrā′tion act of whirling round a central point: a spiral motion.—adjs. Gy′ratory Gyrā′tional moving in a circle.
整理:莱昂内尔
例句/造句/用法:
- While he was thus plunging and gyrating, another lasso would be thrown by another Mexican, catching the animal by a fore-foot. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- That mysterious paper currency which circulates in London when the wind blows, gyrated here and there and everywhere. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
杰克逊整理