revolve

英 [rɪ'vɒlv] 美 [rɪ'vɑːlv]

• v. 旋转；考虑；围绕

双解释义

v. (动词)

1. vi. 旋转

   move or turn in a circle around a central point

2. vt. 使旋转

   cause to move or turn in a circle around a central point

3. vt. & vi. 考虑,熟思(问题等)

   turn over in the mind; think about all sides of a problem, etc.

详尽释义

v. 动词

1. 旋转；转动
2. 绕转，沿轨道转，盘绕，环绕
3. 盘算，细想，斟酌，考虑，反复思考
4. 使旋转，使沿轨道运行
5. 循环，周期性出现，循环往复
6. 盘桓于脑海，一再浮现
7. 周转
8. 【天】公转；自转
9. 探讨
10. 以...为中心

英英释义

Verb:

1. 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"
   

2. move in an orbit;

   "The moon orbits around the Earth"
   "The planets are orbiting the sun"
   "electrons orbit the nucleus"
   

3. cause to move by turning over or in a circular manner of as if on an axis;

   "She rolled the ball"
   "They rolled their eyes at his words"
   

例句

用作动词 (v.)

1. The wheels began to revolve slowly.
   车轮开始慢慢转动。
2. Their troubles revolve around money management.
   他们的麻烦围绕在金钱处理上。
3. We must revolve the problem before giving an answer.
   我们必须在回答之前把问题仔细考虑一下。
4. My life revolves around my job.
   我的工作是我生活的中心。

常见句型

用作动词 (v.)

用作不及物动词

S+～(+A)

1. Wheels revolve.
   轮子能转动。
2. Huge wheels began to revolved slowly.
   巨大的轮子开始徐徐旋转。
3. Ideals revolved in her mind.
   她心中再三考虑这个问题。

用作及物动词

S+～+ n./pron.

1. He revolved the pencil between his fingers.
   他转动着夹在手中的铅笔。
2. The plot of the play revolves the struggle between two women.
   剧本的情节主要围绕着两个妇女的斗争展开。
3. He revolved the main points in his mind.
   他脑子里反复思考这些重点。
4. I've revolved the problem in my mind, but I haven't yet come up with solution.
   这个问题我反复考虑过了，但还没有找出解决办法。
5. He wishes to revolve the problem before giving an answer.
   他希望等他将问题考虑成熟之后再作回答。
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6. This disc can be revolved.
   这种盘状物可旋转。
7. The platform is revolved by a small electric motor.
   这讲台靠着一个小电动机转动。
8. The problem must be revolved before giving the answer.
   在回答这个问题之前,我们必须经过深思熟虑。

其他

1. He got stuck in a revolving door.
   他给旋转门困住了。
2. He spun the revolving door round and round.
   他把那个旋转门转了又转。

经典引文

• He had often revolved these questions in his mind.

  出自： V. Woolf

常用短语

用作动词 (v.)

revolve about (v.+prep.)

围绕着…旋转; 以…为核心 have (sth or sb) as the middle point of its movement
revolve about sb/sth
Traffic is kept to revolve about an island in the middle of the area where the four roads meet.

车辆都必须绕着十字路口当中的环岛行驶。
The earth revolves about the axis which joins the North and South Poles.

地球绕着连接南北极的地轴旋转。
The South and North Pole are the two points at opposite ends of the earth, about which it revolves.

南北极是地球绕之自转的两个相对的点。

revolve around (v.+prep.)

围绕着…旋转; 以…为核心 have (sth or sb) as the middle point of its movement
revolve around sb/sth/v-ing
Planets revolve around the sun.

行星绕太阳运行。
The moon revolves around the earth.

月球绕地球运动。
Copernicus reasoned that the earth revolved around the sun.

哥白尼推论说地球围绕太阳转。
It takes approximately 365 and a quarter days for the earth to revolve around the sun.

地球绕太阳1 周大约需要365 天。
He thinks the whole world revolves around him.

他自以为整个世界都在围着他转。
You think the whole world revolves around you.

你以为整个世界都以你为中心呢。
The trouble with John is that he thinks the world revolves around him.

令约翰劳神的是他认为人人都要以他为核心。
A baby's life revolves mainly around its mother and father.

婴儿的生活主要围着妈妈爸爸转。
The life of the home revolves around the mother.

家庭生活以母亲为核心。
Her life revolves around her husband and three children.

她的生活就是为着丈夫和三个孩子转。
She thinks the world revolves around her and her schedule.

她以为全世界就以她和她的时间表为中心。
His whole life revolved around cars.

他一生都在和汽车打交道。
His world view revolves around a battle between rich and poor.

他的世界观环绕着贫富之争。
The discussion revolved around three topics.

讨论围绕这三个话题进行。
The conversation revolved mainly round the problems of childcare.

谈话围绕着儿童保育的问题。
All sorts of mad ideas revolved around my mind.

各种疯狂的想法在我脑中盘旋。
Much of a dolphin's life revolves around finding and eating food.

海豚生命的大部分时间用于觅食和进食。

revolve round (v.+prep.)

见revolve around条。

revolve on (v.+prep.)

围绕着…旋转; 以…为核心 have (sth or sb) as the middle point of its movement
revolve on sth
Mars takes longer to revolve on its axis than the earth.

火星自转一周的时间比地球长。
Thus a wheel revolves on its axle.

于是,轮子在轴上旋转。
The earth revolves both round the sun and on its axis.

地球绕太阳公转又绕地轴自转。

词汇搭配

用作动词 (v.)

～+名词

• revolve business 围着事业转
• revolve child 围着孩子转
• revolve family 围着家庭转
• revolve mother 围着母亲转
• revolve pencil 转动铅笔
• revolve problem 思考问题

～+副词

• revolve automatically 自动旋转
• revolve ceaselessly 不停地旋转
• revolve incessantly 不停地旋转
• revolve periodically 周期性地循环往复
• revolve perpetually 不停地旋转
• revolve slowly 慢慢转动

～+介词

• revolve about 围着…转动
• revolve around 围着…转动
• revolve n one's mind 反复地思考
• revolve round 围着…转动

词语用法

v. (动词)

1. revolve的基本意思是“旋转”,指某人或物以一个固定的点为中心,有规律地、不停地转动或处于转动的状态。也指不太重要的或次要的事物对重要的、主要的、起决定性作用的事物的依赖。可用作不及物动词，也可用作及物动词。用作及物动词时,后接名词或代词作宾语。可用于被动结构。用于比喻，revolve还可作“以…为中心，以…为主题”解。
2. revolve引申还可指人在头脑中“反复考虑”某事，相当于口语中的think over。可用作不及物动词，也可用作及物动词。用作不及物动词时，以某念头或计划等作主语，而以in sb's mind表示“在某人的头脑中”，意即“某念头等在头脑中徘徊”；用作及物动词时，以人作主语，以某物或计划等作宾语。不用于被动结构。

词义辨析

v. (动词)

revolve around, revolve round, revolve on

• 这组短语都是“绕…旋转”的意思，其区别是：
• 1. revolve around和revolve round都指绕外面某一点旋转或运行；revolve on指绕自身某一点旋转或运行。
• 2. 美国英语用revolve around；英国英语用revolve round。

revolve, circle, eddy, rotate, spin, swirl, turn, twirl, wheel

• 这组词都是“作圆周运动”的意思，其区别是：
• 1. turn是本组词中最常用的词，不带感情色彩，一般可与本组其他所有词替换。
• 2. revolve，spin和twirl都既指绕外面某一点旋转或运行，也指绕自身某一点旋转或运行。revolve强调“有规律”；spin和twirl强调“迅速地”；twirl还强调轻快、灵巧、优美。rotate则只指绕自身某一点旋转，否则此物就不会运动。
• 3. eddy和swirl都指旋风或漩涡所做的或快或慢的圆周运动，也可用于包含着迂回或脱离主流的形势。swirl比eddy更强调迅速、流动、优雅的魅力。
• 4. circle和wheel都指作圆周运动，也指在弯弯曲曲或弧线状的路线上行进。circle含有为避开某物而绕行的意味；wheel还指转向一条弯弯曲曲或弧线状的新路线。
• 例如：
• The dancer spun on his toes. 那舞蹈演员以足尖点地旋转身体。
• Dancers can twirl round and round on one toe. 舞蹈演员能以一足尖点地不停地旋转。
• The earth rotates once every 24 hours. 地球每24小时自转一次。
• Smoke eddied from the chimney. 烟从烟囱里旋舞着冒出。
• A gust of wind swirled bits of paper down the street. 一阵大风刮得碎纸片在大街上飞舞。
• The ship has circled the cape. 船绕过好望角。
• The seagulls were wheeling in the air above me. 海鸥正在我的上面盘旋。

rotate，revolve，roll，spin，turn，whirl，circle

• 这些动词均有“转动、旋转”之意。
• rotate侧重指物体围绕自己的轴或中心旋转，即自转。
• revolve强调指物体围绕本身以外的中心旋转，即公转。
• roll指某物在平面上滚动或翻滚。
• spin指沿内轴迅速而连续旋转，或沿外部一个点作快速圆周运转。
• turn普通用词，中性，含义广泛，根据搭配，可指作一个圆周运动或连续地作圆周运动，也可指仅是沿圆的弧形转动。
• whirl指旋转或作圆周运动，侧重急速或力量。
• circle指作圆周运动。

近反义词

【近义词】

• centre on
• circle
• eddy
• go around
• meditate on
• move in orbit
• rotate
• spin
• swirl
• turn
• twirl
• wheel