rotate

英 [rəʊ'teɪt] 美 ['roʊteɪt]

• v. 轮流；(使)旋转
• adj. 车轮状的

双解释义

v. (动词)

1. vt. & vi. (使)旋转或转动

   (cause to) move in circles round a central point

2. vt. & vi. (使)循环

   (cause to) take turns or recur in a particular

详尽释义

v. 动词

1. 旋转
2. 轮换
3. 轮流
4. 【军】轮换调防
5. 轮转
6. 循环
7. 使旋转
8. 使循环
9. 【天】自转
10. 交替
11. 【农】轮作
12. 使转动
13. 转动
14. 轮值
15. 【军】把轮换调防
16. 【军】把（人员部队）轮换调防
17. 更迭
18. （使）旋转

adj. 形容词

1. 【植】辐状的
2. 轮状的
3. 辐状的
4. 车轮状的

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. exchange on a regular basis;

   "We rotate the lead soprano every night"
   

3. perform a job or duty on a rotating basis;

   "Interns have to rotate for a few months"
   

4. cause to turn on an axis or center;

   "Rotate the handle"
   

5. turn outward;

   "These birds can splay out their toes"
   "ballet dancers can rotate their legs out by 90 degrees"
   

6. plant or grow in a fixed cyclic order of succession;

   "We rotate the crops so as to maximize the use of the soil"
   

例句

用作动词 (v.)

1. The post of chairman rotates among members of the committee.
   主席一职由委员会的成员轮流担任。
2. Interns have to rotate for a few months.
   实习医生轮流工作了几个月。
3. He rotates the handle gently.
   他轻轻地转动手柄。
4. Does the earth rotate on an axis?
   地球是绕轴旋转的吗？

常见句型

用作动词 (v.)

用作不及物动词

S+～(+A)

1. Wheels, tops and the earth rotate.
   轮子,陀螺和地球均旋转。
2. The earth rotates once every 24 hours.
   地球每24小时自转一周。
3. The seasons rotate.
   四季更迭。

用作及物动词

S+～+ n./pron.

1. The big gear turns the small one to rotate the cylinder.
   大齿轮带动小齿轮使筒体旋转。
2. The doctor asked the patient to rotate his eyes.
   医生叫病人转动眼球。
3. The farmer rotates crops in a field.
   那农夫在一块地上轮种农作物。
4. The manager said he will rotate Caddy,Acly and Jacobi as editor.
   经理说他会让卡迪,艾克利和雅克比轮流做编辑。
5. He told me that he will rotate Caddy,Keat and Ilott as his teacher.
   他告诉我他会让卡迪,基特和伊洛特轮流当他的老师。

经典引文

• We are..going to rotate seats so..we all have a chance to sit near the guide.

  出自：Holiday Which?

• In the six months that Spain holds the rotating EC presidency.

  出自：Wall Street Journal

常用短语

用作动词 (v.)

rotate among (v.+prep.)

在…中轮流 take turn among sth
rotate among sb
The post of chairman rotates among members of the committee.

主席一职由委员会的成员轮流担任。

rotate around (v.+prep.)

绕…运转 revolve around sth
rotate around sth
The earth rotates around the sun.

地球绕太阳运转。

词汇搭配

用作动词 (v.)

～+名词

• rotate crops 轮种农作物
• rotate the cylinder 使筒体旋转
• rotate one's eyes 转动眼球

～+副词

• rotate accurately 准确地旋转
• rotate alternately 交替〔轮流〕旋转
• rotate apparently 明显地旋转
• rotate constantly 不断地旋转
• rotate erratically 不规律地旋转
• rotate freely 随意地旋转

～+介词

• rotate on 绕…旋转
• rotate on the axis 以轴为中心而旋转

词语用法

v. (动词)

1. rotate的基本意思是“(使)旋转或转动”,多指物体以一点为圆心或以一直线为轴做圆周运动。引申可表示“(使)循环”“轮流”等,此时指三者或三者以上的人或物按一定顺序不断重复。
2. rotate既可用作及物动词,也可用作不及物动词。用作及物动词时,接名词、代词作宾语。

词义辨析

v. (动词)

rotate, alternate

• 这组词都指“轮流”“交替”,其区别是alternate指两者间“轮流”, rotate则指三者或三者以上。例如：
• The manager said he will alternate Jane and Joe as editor.
• 经理说他会让简和乔轮流做编辑。
• He told me that he will rotate Caddy,Keat and Ilott as his teacher.
• 他告诉我他会让卡迪,基特和伊洛特 轮流当他的老师。

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】

• turn 翻转
• spin (使)旋转
• swivel 转换仪器
• pivot 枢
• revolve 旋转
• go 去
• gyrate 旋涡状的
• replace 取代
• switch 转换
• interchange 交换
• alternate 交替
• exchange 交换
• swap 交换
• circle 圆圈
• roll 卷
• whirl 使 ... 旋转
• wheel 方向盘
• twist 缠绕
• screw 螺钉
• twirl 快速转动
• turn out 结果是
• go around 四处走动
• splay 展开
• circumvolve 旋转
• spread out 伸开