around
[ADV, PREP]
1. 在…四周地
Around means positioned on all sides of something.
双语例句
例：a village with a rocky river, a ruined castle and hills all around.
一个有一条多石的河流和一座被毁的城堡、四面环山的村庄。
2. 四处地
Around means in every part of something.
双语例句
例：He backed away from the edge, looking all around at the flat horizon.
他从边上退了回来，环视着平坦的地平线。
3. 四处地
Around means in all directions.
双语例句
例：My mornings are spent rushing around after him.
我的那些上午都花在跟着他四处奔波上。
4. 在各处
Around means in different parts of a place or area.
双语例句
例：What the hell do you think you're doing following me around?
你到处跟着我究竟是在干什么？
5. 朝相反方向
If you turn around, you turn so that you are facing in the opposite direction.
双语例句
例：I turned around and wrote the title on the blackboard.
我转过身将标题写在了黑板上。
6. 去（某人家拜访）
If you go around to someone's house, you visit them.
双语例句
例：She helped me unpack my things and then we went around to see the other girls.
她帮助我打开行李，然后我们去看望别的女孩。
7. 无所事事地
You use around in expressions such as sit around and hang around when you are saying that someone is spending time in a place and not doing anything very important.
双语例句
例：I'm just going to be hanging around twiddling my thumbs.
我正要无所事事地旋弄拇指。
8. 别处
If you move things around, you move them so that they are in different places.
双语例句
例：Furniture in the classroom should not be changed around without warning the blind child.
如果没有告诉盲童，请不要挪动教室里的设施。
9. 绕圈地
If a wheel or object turns around, it turns.
双语例句
例：The boat started to spin around in the water.
那条船开始在水里打转。
10. 在某处
If someone or something is around, they exist or are present in a place.
双语例句
例：You haven't seen my publisher anywhere around, have you?
你还没有见过我的出版商，是吧？
11. 又一次地
You use around in expressions such as this time around or to come around when you are describing something that has happened before or things that happen regularly.
双语例句
例：Senator Bentsen has declined to get involved this time around.
本特森参议员这次又拒绝了介入。
12. 大约地
Around means approximately.
近义词
双语例句
例：My salary was around $45,000 plus a car and expenses.
我的工资大约是45000美元，外加一辆车和各种报销。
ADV. 副词
around about
1. 大约
Around about means approximately.
双语例句
例：There is an outright separatist party but it only scored around about 10 per cent in the vote.
有一个极端分离主义党派，但是该党在选举中只取得了大约10的选票。
PHRASE. 习语
1. 在…四周
To be positioned around a place or object means to surround it or be on all sides of it. To move around a place means to go along its edge, back to your starting point.
双语例句
例：She looked at the papers around her.
她看了看四周的文件。
例：Today she wore her hair down around her shoulders.
今天她把头发披在了肩上。
2. 绕过
If you move around a corner or obstacle, you move to the other side of it. If you look around a corner or obstacle, you look to see what is on the other side.
双语例句
例：The photographer stopped clicking and hurried around the corner.
该摄影师停止按动快门，匆匆绕过那个拐角。
3. 四处（走动、看）
If you move around a place, you travel through it, going to most of its parts. If you look around a place, you look at every part of it.
双语例句
例：I've been walking around Moscow and the town is terribly quiet.
我一直在莫斯科四处走动，城里极其安静。
4. 在…四处（闲转）
If someone moves around a place, they move through various parts of that place without having any particular destination.
双语例句
例：These days much of my time is spent weaving my way around cocktail parties.
这些日子我的很多时间花在闲转于各鸡尾酒会上。
5. 在各处
You use around to say that something happens in different parts of a place or area.
双语例句
例：Police in South Africa say ten people have died in scattered violence around the country.
南非警方称，该国各地的暴力事件中已有10人死亡。
例：Elephants were often to be found in swamp in eastern Kenya around the Tana River.
人们经常在肯尼亚东部塔纳河附近发现陷入沼泽的大象。
6. 在…周围的
The people around you are the people whom you come into contact with, especially your friends and relatives, and the people you work with.
双语例句
例：We change our behaviour by observing the behaviour of those around us.
我们通过观察周围人的行为举止来改变自己的行为举止。
7. 围绕（某主题）
If something such as a film, a discussion, or a plan is based around something, that thing is its main theme.
双语例句
例：The novel is a political thriller loosely based around current political issues.
这部小说是一本在一定程度上围绕当前政治问题撰写的政治惊悚小说。
8. 绕…一周（的长度）
When you are giving measurements, you can use around to talk about the distance along the edge of something round.
双语例句
例：She was 5 foot 4 inches, 38 around the chest, 28 around the waist and 40 around the hips.
她身高5英尺4英寸，胸围38英寸，腰围28英寸，臀围40英寸。
9. 在…（无所事事）
If you hang around or sit around a place, you spend time there but you do not do anything very important.
双语例句
例：He used to skip lessons and hang around the harbour with some other boys.
他过去经常逃课，和其他男孩子在码头上闲荡。
10. 在…左右
If something will happen around a particular time, it will happen at approximately that time.
双语例句
例：He expects the elections to be held around November.
他预计选举会在11月左右举行。
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