turn是什么意思

详细释义

• 0 to (cause to) move in a circle around a fixed point or line -- （使）轉動；（使）旋轉

  • The earth turns on its axis once every 24 hours. 地球每24小時繞地軸自轉一周。

  • She turned on her toes, holding out her skirt. 她拎起裙擺踮著腳尖旋轉。

  • The wheels started to turn (around). 輪子開始轉動了。

  • Turn the steering wheel as quickly as you can. 以最快速度打輪。

  • She turned the doorknob and quietly opened the door. 她轉動門把手，悄悄地開了門。

  • Slowly, I turned the door handle. 我慢慢地擰動門把手。

• 1 to (cause to) change the direction in which you are facing or moving -- （使）轉向；（使）轉身

  • Turn right at the traffic lights. 在紅綠燈處向右拐。

  • The path twists and turns for the next half mile. 接下來這條小路有半英里是彎彎曲曲的。

  • We have to turn down/into/up the next road on the right. 我們必須在下一個路口往右拐。

  • Plants tend to turn towards the source of light. 植物往往朝向光源生長。

  • She turned to face him. 她轉過身面對他。

  • He turned round and waved to us. 他轉身向我們招手。

  • He turned on his heel (= turned quickly to face the opposite direction) and left the room. 他迅速轉身離開了房間。

  • The person on my left turned to me and whispered "Not another speech!" 我左邊的人轉向我，耳語道：「可別再來一場演講！」

  • His wife tried to speak to him, but he turned his back (on her)/turned away (from her) (= moved so that his back, not his face, was towards her to show his anger). 他的妻子想跟他說話，可他卻轉過身去不予理睬。

  • At about three o'clock, the tide started to turn (= the sea started to come closer to or move away from the beach). 大約三點鐘，潮水開始湧動。

  • He turned his head to me to listen. 他轉過頭來聽我講話。

  • I'll just turn the car round and go back the way we came. 我這就調轉車頭，原路返回。

  • We watched until the car had turned (= gone around) the corner. 我們一直看著那輛車拐彎後才作罷。

  • The army turned their guns on (= pointed them at and started to shoot at) the protesters. 軍隊朝抗議者開槍。

  • She can turn (= perform) a somersault. 她會空翻。

• 2 to move, or to move an object or page, so that a different side or surface is on the top -- 翻動（書頁）；（使）翻轉；（使）翻身

  • Now turn the page, please, and start work on Exercise 2. 現在請翻到下一頁，開始做練習二。

  • She turned the vase over to look for the price. 她把花瓶翻過來看價格。

  • He turned over two or three pages. 他翻了兩三頁。

  • She put out the light, turned over (= rolled in order to face in another direction) and went to sleep. 她熄了燈，翻個身，就睡著了。

  • Now turn to (= open the book at) page 23 and look at the first paragraph. 現在請翻到第23頁，看第一段。

• 3 to (cause to) become, change into, or come to be something -- （使）變得；（使）成為

  • The weather has suddenly turned cold. 天氣突然變涼。

  • When I refused to pay, he turned nasty. 當我拒絕付錢時，他的態度變得很惡劣。

  • She turned pale and started to shiver. 她的臉色變得蒼白，身子開始顫抖。

  • The mood of the meeting turned solemn when the extent of the problem became known. 當問題的嚴重程度披露後，會議的氣氛開始變得嚴肅起來。

  • The companies worked well together for a while, but eventually the relationship turned sour (= became bad). 這些公司一度合作得很好，但最後關係鬧僵了。

  • Keele, pop star turned business tycoon, has launched a new range of cosmetics. 基爾，從流行音樂歌星搖身成為商業鉅子，已經推出了一個新系列的化妝品。

  • The dry weather turned the soil into/to concrete. 乾旱天氣使土壤板結。

  • By the end of September, the leaves have started to turn (= become brown). 到九月底，葉子就開始變黃。

  • Her attitude turned from politely interested to enthusiastic during the course of our conversation. 在我們談話期間，她的態度發生轉變，先是出於禮貌表示感興趣，後來就變得很熱情。

  • She turned 18 last year. 她去年滿18歲。

  • It's just turned ten o'clock. 剛到十點。

• 4 to use a control to switch a piece of equipment or a power or water supply on or off, or to increase or reduce what it is producing -- 旋動，擰動（操縱裝置）；（為升高或降低…而）旋動，擰動

  • Turn off/out the light. 關燈。

  • Who turned the TV on? 誰開了電視？

  • I asked him to turn down the heating. 我叫他把暖氣關小一點。

  • Turn the sound up - I can't hear what they're saying. 把聲音開大一些——我聽不清他們在說甚麼。

  • The heater turns off (= can be switched off) using this switch. 用這個開關可以關閉暖���。

• 5 to damage the muscles in the foot by suddenly twisting it too strongly -- 扭傷腳踝，崴了腳

  • She turned her ankle on the rocks and had to hobble back to camp. 她在石頭上崴了腳，不得不蹣跚著走回營地。

• 6 to shape a piece of wood while it is attached to a machine that spins it -- 在車床上車（木頭）

  • a turned bowl 車成的碗

• 7 an opportunity or a duty to do something at a particular time or in a particular order, before or after other people -- （依次輪到的）機會，一個班次

  • Is it my turn yet? 輪到我了嗎？

  • [ + to infinitive ] I waited so long for my turn to see the careers adviser that I missed my bus. 我等了很長時間才輪到見就業顧問，結果錯過了公車。

  • It's your turn to do the dishes! 輪到你洗碗了！

  • In this game if you give the wrong answer you have to miss a turn. 在這個遊戲中，如果你回答錯誤，就會失去一次機會。

  • We take turns answering the phone. 我們輪流接電話。

  • Each of us takes a break in turn. 我們輪流休息。

• 8 an action that causes something to move in a circle round a fixed point -- 轉動，旋轉；擰動

  • Give the screw a couple of turns to make sure it's tight. 將螺絲擰幾下，確保它上緊了。

• 9 a change in the direction in which you are moving or facing -- 轉向，轉彎

  • When you see the school on the left, make a right turn. 當你在左手邊看見學校時就立刻右轉。

  • The path was full of twists and turns. 這條小路彎彎曲曲。

  • The tide is on the turn. 要漲潮了。

  • the turn of the tide 潮流的轉變

  • She was born around the turn of the century (= around 1900, 2000, etc.). 她出生於世紀之交。

• 10 to develop in a particular way -- 朝…發生變化

  • The battle for control of the company took an interesting turn today. 控制公司的爭奪戰今天發生了有趣的變化。

  • Events took an unexpected turn when her mother suddenly arrived. 她母親突然到來，情況發生了意想不到的變化。

  • Their relationship took a turn for the worse when he lost his job. 他失業後，他們的關係變得更糟。

• 11 a stage act or performance -- 節目；演出

  • The first couple of turns were children singing and dancing. 頭幾個節目是兒童歌舞。

• 12 a slight illness, a strange feeling, or a nervous shock -- 不適感；奇怪的感覺；一驚，一嚇

  • After the accident I started having funny turns. 事故後，我開始時不時感到不適。

  • It gave me quite a turn to see him after all these years. 這麼多年以後再看到他，真令我感到意外。