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To rotate means to turn around a central point, like a wheel turning around its middle, or the Earth rotating once every day to make day and night. People also use "rotate" for taking turns in a fair, planned way — like workers who "rotate" shifts, meaning each person takes a turn doing the night shift, then the next, so it's shared fairly.
旋轉；輪流、輪值
組成From Latin "rota," meaning wheel — to rotate is to move like a wheel.
同家族的字
- rotationthe noun — one full turn, or a system of taking turns, is a rotation
原始詞典資料8 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。
rotateverb/ɹəʊˈteɪt/
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To spin, turn, or revolve.
- He rotated in his chair to face me.
- The earth rotates.
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To advance through a sequence; to take turns.
- The nurses' shifts rotate each week.
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To lift the nose during takeoff, just prior to liftoff.
- The aircraft rotates at sixty knots.
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To spin, turn, or revolve something.
- Rotate the dial to the left.
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To advance something through a sequence; to allocate or deploy in turns.
- I've always admired the Japanese point of view that holds it best not to have a great number of objects around at one time but to rotate possessions — and display them with great simplicity.
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To replace older materials or to place older materials in front of newer ones so that older ones get used first.
- The supermarket rotates the stock daily so that old foods don't sit around.
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To grow or plant (crops) in a certain order.
rotateadj/ɹəʊˈteɪt/
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Having the parts spreading out like a wheel; wheel-shaped.
- a rotate spicule or scale; a rotate corolla
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。