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A pirouette is a dance turn: the dancer spins around very fast, standing on one toe or on the front part of one foot. You see it most in ballet. It is a noun (she did a pirouette) and a verb (she pirouetted across the floor). English borrowed it from French in 1706, and it still feels a little French and a little fancy. Outside dance, people stretch it: a car might pirouette on ice, or a speaker might pirouette in an argument — a quick, turn. The core picture stays the same: a fast spin on a small point.
皮魯埃特；單腳尖旋轉（芭蕾）
組成Borrowed from French pirouette; English has had the noun and the verb since 1706.
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
pirouettenoun/ˌpɪ.ɹʊˈɛt/
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A whirling or turning on the toes in dancing, primarily in ballet.
- […]like what?—like the most beautiful pirouette by [Marie] Taglioni, let us say.
- But the Emperor’s friend covered himself with glory, for he danced everything, whether he knew it or not, and introduced impromptu pirouettes when the figures bewildered him..
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The whirling about of a horse.
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A wooden mouthpiece assembly or lip rest used in some European double-reed instruments.
pirouetteverb/ˌpɪ.ɹʊˈɛt/
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To perform a pirouette; to whirl on the toes, like a dancer.
- The way in which they dance; the height to which they spring; the impossible and inhuman extent to which they pirouette; […].
- At last they paused, and a beautiful young woman sprang out of the ranks and began to pirouette in front of us with a grace and vigour which would have put most ballet girls to shame.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。