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If something revolves, it turns around a centre, like a wheel, a planet, or a door that you push and it keeps going round. You can revolve a thing yourself, or it can revolve on its own.
If something revolves如果某樣東西 revolves，it turns around a centre它會繞著一個中心轉，like a wheel, a planet, or a door that you push and it keeps going round像輪子、行星，或是你推一下就會一直轉的門。 You can revolve a thing yourself你可以自己去轉動一樣東西，or it can revolve on its own它也可以自己轉。
People also say a story, a job, or a life revolves around one person or one idea — meaning that is the centre everything else turns on. Thoughts can revolve in your head, going round and round without landing.
People also say a story, a job, or a life revolves around one person or one idea大家也會說一個故事、一份工作，或一個人的生活 revolves around（圍繞著）某個人或某個想法打轉——meaning that is the centre everything else turns on意思是那就是其他一切繞著轉的中心。 Thoughts can revolve in your head想法也會在你腦中 revolve，going round and round without landing一直繞、一直繞，卻停不下來。
The physical turning and the “be centred on” uses are both everyday; the second is probably even more common in ordinary talk.
The physical turning字面上「轉動」的用法，and the "be centred on" uses are both everyday和「以……為中心」的用法都很常見，the second is probably even more common in ordinary talk後者在日常說話裡可能還更常用。
Rotate is close for the turning sense, but a bit more technical. Evolve is a different word: that is slow change into something new, not spinning.
Rotate is close for the turning senseRotate 在「轉動」這個意思上很接近，but a bit more technical不過比較偏技術性一點。 Evolve is a different wordEvolve 是完全不同的字：that is slow change into something new那是慢慢演變成新事物，not spinning不是在打轉。
組成From Middle English revolven, from Old French revolver, from Latin revolvere: re-（back）+ volvō（roll）— to roll back, turn over, also “turn over in the mind.”
同家族的字
- revolverrevolve + -er: a gun whose bullet-case turns
- revolutionsame Latin revolvere, a turning round
- involveLatin in + volvere, “roll in”
- evolveLatin e + volvere, “roll out”
- volublesame Latin volvere: words that roll out easily
原始詞典資料10 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。
revolveverb/ɹɪˈvɒlv/
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archaicTo bring back into a particular place or condition; to restore.
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To cause (something) to turn around a central point.
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To orbit a central point (especially of a celestial body).
- The Earth revolves around the sun.
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To rotate around an axis.
- The Earth revolves once every twenty-four hours.
- It is never possible to settle down to the ordinary routine of life at sea until the screw begins to revolve. There is an hour or two, after the passengers have embarked, which is disquieting and fussy.
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To move in order or sequence.
- The program revolves through all the queues before returning to the start.
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archaicTo ponder on; to reflect repeatedly upon; to consider all aspects of.
- These are the difficulties which arise to me on revolving this scheme […].
- He sits silent, revolving many thoughts, at the foot of St. Edmund’s Shrine.
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obsoleteTo read through, to study (a book, author etc.).
- This having heard, strait I again revolv’d / The Law and Prophets.
revolvenoun/ɹɪˈvɒlv/
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entertainmentlifestyletheaterThe rotation of part of the scenery within a theatrical production.
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entertainmentlifestyletheaterThe rotating section itself.
- […] a revolving stage, two-level platforms stage left and stage right, and a large bridge that connected the platforms midstage, twelve feet up off the revolve.
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obsoleteA radical change; revolution.
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。