同义词
反义词
  • around的反义词之:
    amid
同义词解析
  • 以下这些词均有"在周围,在附近" 的意思
    about :既可表静态,也可表动态。
    around :主要用于美国,静态或动态均可。
    round :主要用于英国,多半指动态。
  • 以下这些副词均有"大约,差不多" 的意思
    almost :指在程度上相差很小,差不多。
    nearly与almost含义基本相同,侧重指数量、时间或空间上的接近。
    about :常可分almost和nearly换用,但about用于表示时间、数量的"大约"时,实际数量可能多也可能少。
    approximately :多用于书面语,指精确度接近某个标准以致误差可忽略不计。
    around :多用于非正式场合,常见于美国英语。
    roughly :指按精略估计,常代替about。
词组
  • have been around
    (informal)have a lot of varied experience and understanding of the world (非正式)阅历广,懂人情世故
  • been around【非正式用语】
    Having had many and varied experiences 经验丰富,老于世故:具有丰富经验和不同经历
英语四级真题
  • The question is, how?Lawrence Patihis at the University of Southern Mississippi recently studied around 20 people with HSAM and found that they scored particularly highly on two measures: fantasy proneness ( ' , 倾向) and absorption.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • So it's no surprise that cultures around the world celebrate spring by honoring the egg.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • People can enjoy services around the clock.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • There is lots of snow around, and the ground freezes, which can make life difficult for animals.
    出自-2017年6月听力原文
  • In fact, we seemed to be out all the time! I don’t really remember working— of course, I was a student—or sitting around at home very much.
    出自-2017年6月听力原文
  • I mean, girls went around in really short skirts, and wore flowers in their hair.
    出自-2017年6月听力原文
  • Around 800 A.D., people in Central Asia managed to develop a new kind of carrot—a purple carrot—that attracted more interest from international traders.
    出自-2017年6月听力原文
  • The big meal came at around 1 p.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • For example, if a robot does chores around the house, you wouldn't want it to put the pet cat in the oven to make dinner for the hungry children.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • Dips in memory, meanwhile, generally became apparent around age 37.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • Jody Hubbard is a diet and nutrition expert who travels around the state to speak in middle and high schools.
    出自-2016年6月听力原文
  • He wrapped one layer of the plastic around the card and tried again.
    出自-2016年6月听力原文
  • With surging obesity levels putting increasing strain on public health systems, governments around the world have begun to toy with the idea of taxing sugar as well.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • With a wireless setup, you stick batterypowered sensors up around your home that keep an eye on windows, doors, motion, and more.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • It means that a thief likely wouldn't be able to Google how the system works, then figure out a way around it.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • That was nothing though, compared to Germans, Italians, and the French, who stayed up around an hour and a half later on various days throughout the summer to watch the Cup.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • On New Year's Eve, Russians have the world's latest bedtime, hitting the hay at around 3:30 a.m.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • It's nice to have people of like mind around.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • If everyone around you has similar views, your work will suffer from confirmation bias ( ' , 偏颇 ).
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • Around the world, people changed sleep patterns thanks to the start or end of daylight savings time.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • Around 1804, Talleyrand challenged Careme to produce a full menu for his personal castle, instructing the young baker to use local, seasonal fruits and vegetables and to avoid repeating main dishes over the course of an entire year.
    2018年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • Around 9 in 10 people in low- and middle-income countries live in places where they regularly experience dangerous levels of outdoor air pollution.
    2018年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A
  • Around half of ocean heat intake since 1865 has taken place since 1997, researchers report online in Nature Climate Change.
    2016年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section A
  • At other times the cow wandered around the 526 acre park and the artificial grass field normally used for human sporting events.
    2019年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
  • But while height has increased around the world, the trend in many countries of north and sub-Saharan Africa causes concern, says Riboli.
    2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • Congratulations! Yes, I believe for international students, you'll have to pay around 13,000 pounds a year.
    2019年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section B
  • France isn't the first country to kick around the idea of paving its roads with solar panels.
    2017年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section A
  • Getting around a city is one thing — and then there's the matter of getting from one city to another.
    2019年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • He showed me around the orphanage he works at.
    2018年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section B
  • However, I can hang around for you if you like.
    2017年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section B
  • If everyone around you has similar views, your work will suffer from confirmation bias.
    2015年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • If you are not careful it will come around and bite you.
    2019年6月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section A
  • In fact, we seemed to be out all the time! I don't really remember working— of course, I was a student—or sitting around at home very much.
    2017年6月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • In the UK alone, there are around 30 million cars.
    2019年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
  • It was interesting to see such a strange sight, but there were a lot of people around and I was a bit worried about the bees and the people stopping to look.
    2017年6月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section A
  • It will be good to have someone around who I know.
    2017年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section B
  • It's still in its early stages, but I think it's shifting around not what kids learn but how they learn.
    2019年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • Kasarda says future cities should be built intentionally around or near airports.
    2019年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • Lawrence Patihis at the University of Southern mississippi recently studied around 20 people with HSAM and found that they scored particularly highly on two measures:fantasy proneness and absorption.
    2017年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • Many of us grow up believing that skipping breakfast is a serious mistake, even if only two thirds of adults in the UK eat breakfast regularly, according to the British dietetic Association, and around three-quarters of Americans.
    2019年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • My ancestor was a preacher, traveling around the countryside.
    2017年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • My dancing life began not because I wanted to do it, but because my mother was sick and tired of seeing me running around after school doing nothing.
    2019年6月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • So large is the Pacific, covering 30% of the planet's surface, that the specific energy generated by its warming is enough to touch off a series of weather changes around the world.
    2015年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section A
  • So while it may seem as if kids are just exercising their bodies when they're running around, they may actually be exercising their brains as well.
    2016年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section A
  • So, I'll meet you down at the station around 6?
    2017年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section B
  • Some colleges have what they call an "honor code", though if you are smart enough to get into these schools, you are either smart enough to get around any codes or hopefully, too ethical to consider doing so.
    2017年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • That means there's little money around for investment that would make cities liveable and more productive.
    2017年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
  • The bear first gained fame after it was spotted wandering around neighborhoods and was caught on videos that were posted on social media and shown on national television.
    2017年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
  • The big meal came at around 1 p.m.
    2016年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • The building is very tall and there are gardens and a wall around it all.
    2018年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section B
  • The center's "Shop with Your Doc" program sends doctors to the grocery store to meet with any patients who sign up for the service, plus any other shoppers who happen to be around with questions.
    2018年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • The food-as-medicine movement has been around for decades, but it's making progress as physicians and medical institutions make food a formal part of treatment, rather than relying solely on medications.
    2018年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • The manager told me that Jack Green's been very active around the shop the last few days.
    2016年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section B
  • The plane stretches a total length of 54 meters, where experienced scuba divers will eventually be able to venture through the cabin and around the plane's exterior.
    2019年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section A
  • The plane stretches a total length of 54 meters, where experienced scuba divers will eventually be able to venture through the cabin and around the plane's exterior.
    2019年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section A
  • The share of young men with jobs peaked around 1960 at 84%.
    2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • The train was coming around the corner as I lifted the baby from the tracks.
    2016年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section B
  • Their whole life centers around drugs.
    2015年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • There have been concerns around the sugar content of cereal and the food industry's involvement in pro-breakfast research—and even one claim from an academic that breakfast is "dangerous".
    2019年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • They are too often built around consuming natural resources.
    2017年12月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
  • This type of arrangement peaked around 1960, when 62% of the nations 18- to 34-year-olds were living with a spouse or partner in their own household, and only one-in-five were living with their parents.
    2019年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • When interviewed Keith porter of the southport beach said, our beach is so flat that it's very common for the tide come around the back of people and cut them off from the beach.
    2019年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section A
  • with a wireless setup, you stick battery-powered sensors up around your home that keep an eye on windows, doors, motion, and more.
    2016年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • with surging obesity levels putting increasing strain on public health systems, governments around the world have begun to toy with the idea of taxing sugar as well.
    2016年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
英语六级真题
  • The dynamic adjustment to low oil prices may, however, be different this time around.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • Nations from around the world have gathered in Paris for the United Nations Climate Change Conference, COP 21, with the goal of a universal and potentially legally-binding agreement on reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • If you look at a lot of low-income communities in the United States, there are programs that are serving them, but they're primarily centered around ‘Let's get these kids' grades up,' and not around ‘Let's get these kids access to the same kinds of opportunities as more-affluent kids,' said Daniel Zaharopol, the founder and executive director of the program.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • Futures markets, which show only a modest recovery of prices to around $60 a barrel by 2019, support this view.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • For example, one of the most popular data sets on multidisciplinary repository Dryad is about wood density around the world; it has been downloaded 5,700 times.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • About 100,000 students around the country participate in the program's competition series, which culminates in a national game-show-style contest held each May.
    出自-2017年6月阅读原文
  • Clickthrough rates have been high so far ( ' , around 3-4%, compared with less than 0.3% online), but that may be a result of the novelty.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • And the World Resources Institute ( ' , WRI) in its World Resources 2005 report, issued at the end of August, produced several such examples from Africa and Asia; it also demonstrated that environmental degradation affects the poor more than the rich, as poorer people derive a much higher proportion of their income directly from the natural resources around them.
    出自-2016年6月阅读原文
  • Now Fred, you went to university in Canada?( ' , 9 ) A recent International Labour Organization report says the deterioration of real wages around the world calls into question the true extent of an economic recovery, especially if government rescue packages are phased out too early.
    出自-2016年6月听力原文
  • Then there is Antarctic's remoteness, with some mineral deposits found in windswept locations on a continent that is larger than Europe and where winter temperatures hover around minus 55 degrees Celsius.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • It's important to note that the increased flexibility didn't encourage them to work around the clock.
    出自-2016年12月阅读原文
  • You say your shop has been doing well, could you give me some idea of what doing well means in facts and figures?Birds are famous for carrying things around.
    出自-2016年12月听力原文
  • When they returned home, their droppings end up all around their nesting sites, including in nearby ponds.
    出自-2016年12月听力原文
  • Canadian scientists have found a worrisome new example of the power that birds have to spread stuff around.
    出自-2016年12月听力原文
  • We worry most about now because if we don't survive for the next minute, we're not going to be around in ten years' time, says Professor Elke Weber of the Centre for Research on Environmental Decisions at Columbia University in New York.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • Many students are coming from a situation where no one around them has the experience of successfully completing higher education, so they are coming in questioning themselves and their college worthiness, Jarrat continued.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • It arouses students' interest in things around them.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • If the Thames were lapping around Big Ben, Londoners would face up to the problem of emissions pretty quickly.
    出自-2015年12月阅读原文
  • Some of the heat is used directly or produces useful work; the rest is lost or rejected, radiated into the atmosphere from the engines, motors, boilers and all the energy-consuming machinery that makes American’s wheel go around.
    出自-2015年12月听力原文
  • "We worry most about now because if we don't survive for the next minute, we're not going to be around in ten years' time," says Professor Elke Weber of the Centre for Research on Environmental Decisions at Columbia University in New York.
    2015年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • "If you look at a lot of low-income communities in the United States, there are programs that are serving them, but they're primarily centered around ‘Let's get these kids' grades up,' and not around ‘Let's get these kids access to the same kinds of oppor
    2017年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • "Many students are coming from a situation where no one around them has the experience of successfully completing higher education, so they are coming in questioning themselves and their college worthiness," Jarrat continued.
    2015年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • "Sometimes it goes wrong, but most of the time it doesn't, " says Swanson, who recommends starting to ask children permission to post narratives or photos around ages 6 to 8.
    2018年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • A recent International Labour Organization report says the deterioration of real wages around the world calls into question the true extent of an economic recovery, especially if government rescue packages are phased out too early.
    2016年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section B
  • About 100,000 students around the country participate in the program's competition series, which culminates in a national game-showstyle contest held each May.
    2017年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • And the World Resources Institute WR in its World Resources 2005 report, issued at the end of August, produced several such examples from Africa and Asia; It also demonstrated that environmental degradation affects the poor more than the rich, as poorer p
    2016年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • And then they change the mood in the music either from sad to happy or the other way around.
    2019年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • As a high school junior, everything in my life revolved around getting into the right college.
    2018年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • As a zoologist focusing on the studies of apes and monkeys, I've been studying why humans evolved to become the naked ape and why skin comes in so many different shades around the world.
    2019年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • At around age 60, "muscles really start to break down," says Kathryn Starr, an aging researcher, "and because of that, the protein needs of an older adult actually increase.
    2019年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • At the time, coca leaf extract mixed with wine was a common tonic (滋补品), and Pemberton's sweet brew was a way to get around local laws prohibiting the sale of alcohol.
    2017年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
  • But around 2012 these measures started to decline.
    2019年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • But as it ages, these conditions may change and the area around it may no longer be suitable for its offspring.
    2016年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A
  • But to build up my own finances, I need around 20% more in personal savings and 50% less debt.
    2019年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section A
  • By creating more awareness around your efforts to reduce waste, and by developing a culture of responsibility, repair, and reuse, you can build customer loyalty based on shared values .
    2019年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • Click-through rates have been high so far around 3-4%, compared with less than 0.3% onlin, but that may be a result of the novelty.
    2016年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
  • Despite being the continent's second-largest producer of tomatoes, Nigeria is dependent on $1 billion worth of tomato-paste imports every year, as around 75% of the local harvest goes to waste thanks to a lack of proper storage facilities.
    2017年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A
  • During a month-long hospital trial,researchers asked 70 patients how they felt being around the robot and "only three or four said they didn't like having it around".
    2018年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • During the Arctic winter from October to March, the average temperature in the frozen north typically hovers around minus 20degrees Celsius.
    2018年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section B
  • During the trials, the robot algorithms (算法) and mechanics will be fine-tuned to make it better suited to ailing livestock and ensure it safely navigates around potential hazards including trees, mud, swamps, and hills.
    2018年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
  • Each day of Kwanzaa, usually before the evening meal, family and friends gather around the table and someone lights a candle, beginning with the black.
    2017年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • For example, one of the most popular data sets on multidisciplinary repository Dryad is about wood density around the world; It has been downloaded 5,700 times.
    2017年6月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
  • For instance, years with a larger increase in online usage were followed by years with lower well-being, rather than the other way around.
    2019年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • Globally, urban populations are expected to double in the next 40 years, and an extra 2 billion people will need new places to live, as well as services and ways to move around their cities.
    2019年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section A
  • If after work you lie around on your bed and get irritated by political commentary on your phone or get stressed thinking about decisions about how to renovate your home, your brain has not received a break from high mental arousal states.
    2018年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • In general, your attitudes will be internally consistent only when the behavior is easy, and when those around you hold similar beliefs.
    2019年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • Industrial fishing for krill in the unspoilt waters around Antarctica is threatening the future of one of the world's last great wildernesses, according to a new report.
    2019年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • It is a grim reality that you can have one person who only makes around 13,000 dollars a year, while across town another is making millions.
    2018年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • It is the means to intervene more wisely, and more effectively in the real world, to improve the well-being, not only of yourself—important as that may be—but of people around you and of other species with whom we share the planet.
    2017年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • It's a huge hit around the world.
    2019年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section A
  • It's important to note that the increased flexibility didn't encourage them to work around the clock.
    2016年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
  • Manufacturing companies on average rely on more than 35 contract suppliers around the world to create a single product.
    2015年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • Office workers do around 2 billion hours of unpaid overtime each year.
    2019年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
  • Older adolescents scored about 50 percent higher on an index of risky driving when their peers were in the room — and the driving of early adolescents was fully twice as reckless when other young teens were around.
    2018年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B
  • Our lowest prices are around $6 a bottle, but those are table wines.
    2018年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section A
  • Our species originated around 200,000 years ago and underwent tremendous diversification culturally, technologically, linguistically, artistically for 130,000 years.
    2019年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • rising temperatures and overfishing in the pristine waters around the Antarctic could see king penguin populations pushed to the brink of extinction by the end of the century, according to a new study.
    2019年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section C
  • Several companies around the world have produced prototypes that can drive on roads and fly, airbus has a futuristic modular concept involving a passenger capsule that can be detached from the road- going chassis and picked up by a helicopter-type machine
    2019年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section A
  • Several companies around the world have produced prototypes that can drive on roads and fly.
    2019年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section A
  • Some passengers enjoy the animals so much that they call the airport to schedule flights around their visits.
    2019年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section B
  • Space, especially the space directly around our planet, is getting more crowded as more governments and companies launch satellites.
    2019年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • Steinberg pointed out that parental sharing on social media helps build communities, connect spread-out families, provide support and raise awareness around important social issues for which parents might be their children's only voice.
    2018年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • The average age of farmers hovers around 58 years old, but he is just 26.
    2019年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section B
  • The Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources(CCAMLR) manages the seas around Antarctica.
    2019年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • The company has already taken deposits from around 800 would-be space tourists, including Stephen Hawking.
    2015年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • The earliest free-standing wooden church was probably built in Norway in around 1080.
    2019年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • The earliest printed book we know today appeared in China in the year 868, and metal type was in use in Korea at the beginning of the 1'th century, but it was in Germany around the year 1450 that a printing press using movable metal type was invented.
    2017年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section B
  • The most powerful influences occur during early childhood and include both what happened to you directly, and what those around you did and said in your presence.
    2019年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
  • The national average farm size is around 440 acres, but his is only one acre.
    2019年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section B
  • The order essentially asks Apple to hack its own devices, and once it is in place, the precedent could be used to justify law enforcement efforts to get around encryption technologies in other investigations far removed from national security threats.
    2017年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B
  • The region is engaged in a multi-day earthquake-and-tsunami drill involving around 20, 000 people.
    2019年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
  • The same goes for numerous big cities around the world.
    2017年6月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section A
  • The team plans to return to around a dozen of the buildings to assess progress and consider further action.
    2019年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
  • The tree people in the Lord of the rings—the Ents—can get around by walking.
    2016年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A
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  • They all wanted to turn around and go home! You know, back to teabags and fish and chips.
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  • They have had hundreds of hours of airport training, so they are used to having luggage and people crowding around them.
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  • They lost around half a kilogram over an average follow-up of 12 weeks.
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  • They're primarily designed for Low Earth Orbit(LEO) an easily accessible region of space from around 200 to 800 miles above Earth, where human-tended missions like the Hubble Space Telescope and the International Space Station(ISS) hang out.
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  • This is where a culture of social responsibility around CubeSats becomes important 一 not simply to ensure that physical risks are minimized, but to engage with a much larger community in anticipating and managing less obvious consequences of the technolog
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柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义
英汉词典释义
英英词典释义
  • Adverb
    1. in the area or vicinity;
    "a few spectators standing about""hanging around""waited around for the next flight"
    2. by a circular or circuitous route;
    "He came all the way around the base""the road goes around the pond"
    3. to or among many different places or in no particular direction;
    "wandering about with no place to go""people were rushing about""news gets around (or about)""traveled around in Asia""he needs advice from someone who's been around""she sleeps around"
    4. in a circle or circular motion;
    "The wheels are spinning around"
    5. (of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct;
    "lasted approximately an hour""in just about a minute""he's about 30 years old""I've had about all I can stand""we meet about once a month""some forty people came""weighs around a hundred pounds""roughly $3,000""holds 3 gallons, more or less""20 or so people were at the party"
    6. in or to a reversed position or direction;
    "about face""brought the ship about""suddenly she turned around"
    7. to a particular destination either specified or understood;
    "she came around to see me""I invited them around for supper"
    8. all around or on all sides;
    "dirty clothes lying around (or about)""let's look about for help""There were trees growing all around""she looked around her"
    9. in circumference;
    "the trunk is ten feet around""the pond is two miles around"
    10. from beginning to end; throughout;
    "It rains all year round on Skye""frigid weather the year around"
行业词典
  • 计算机: 周围,围绕;