喜樂美語
  1. 1旋轉；revolve around：以……為中心、圍繞……打轉

    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. 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. The physical turning and the “be centred on” uses are both everyday; the second is probably even more common in ordinary talk. 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.

From the word’s history

From Latin revolvō 'to roll back, turn over', from re- 'back' + volvō 'roll'.

源自拉丁文 revolvō「往回滾、翻轉」：re-「回」加 volvō「滾」。

Wiktionary

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

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revolveverb/ɹɪˈvɒlv/

  • 1

    archaicTo bring back into a particular place or condition; to restore.

  • 2

    To cause (something) to turn around a central point.

  • 3

    To orbit a central point (especially of a celestial body).

    • The Earth revolves around the sun.
  • 4

    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.
  • 5

    To move in order or sequence.

    • The program revolves through all the queues before returning to the start.
  • 6

    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.
  • 7

    obsoleteTo read through, to study (a book, author etc.).

    • This having heard, strait I again revolv’d / The Law and Prophets.

revolvenoun/ɹɪˈvɒlv/

  • 1

    entertainmentlifestyletheaterThe rotation of part of the scenery within a theatrical production.

  • 2

    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.
  • 3

    obsoleteA radical change; revolution.

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