英语释义

1. a change or reversal of direction, trend, policy, role, or character

2. a changing from one allegiance to another

3. turncoat, renegade

4. an act or instance of retaliating
turnabout is fair play

5. merry-go-round

6. a change from one direction or one way of thinking or acting to the opposite
In a complete turnabout, he admitted that he had lied.

英汉例句

• new types of tiny combined heat and power plants are able to turn about half the energy in fuel into electricity, almost matching the efficiency of huge generators.

  新型的小规模热电联产机组，能够将燃料中大约一半的能量转化为电力，其效率已与大型发电机的效率相若。

• look at your talk and pick out a few words or sentences which you can turn about and inject with humor.

  考虑一下你的谈话，选出一些词汇和句子来，将它们颠倒秩序反复揣摩，并注入一些幽默。

• if i love you, i appear when we get together, and turn about to leave with a smile.

  只要我爱你，我会随时出现在你身旁，离开时我亦会面带微笑。

• 「why, so, 」 he replied: 「you take a line ashore there on the other side at low water, take a turn about one of them big pines; bring it back, take a turn around the capstan, and lie to for the tide.

  「当然能了，」他答道，“你在潮低时拉一条绳到那边岸上去，把绳绕在一棵大树上，再拉回来绕在绞盘上，然后躺下来等着涨潮。

• that other parts of the tool turn about it .

  工具上总有个其他部位绕着它转的点。

• miss eliza bennet, let me persuade you to follow my example, and take a turn about the room.

  伊丽莎。班纳特小姐，我劝你还是学学我的样子，在房间里霞走动走动吧。

• then he put on his hat and went for a turn about the block.

  然后他戴上帽子，在街区周围散步。

• in the desperation of her feelings she resolved on one effort more; and turning to elizabeth, said, 」miss eliza bennet, let me persuade you to follow my example, and take a turn about the room.

  她绝望之余，决定再作一次努力，于是转过身来对伊丽莎白说：“伊丽莎·班纳特小姐，我劝你还是学学我的样子，在房间里瞎走动走动吧。

• large, modern gas-fired power stations can turn about 60% of the energy in fuel into electricity. the rest is lost as waste heat.

  大型的现代化气电厂能将燃料中60%的能量转化为电力，其余部分则作为余热丢弃了。

• the machine can turn about 200 kinds of the metric, imperial, module and dp thread with knob, no need to change gears.

  本机可以打开约200多种的公制，英制，模块和dp螺纹旋钮，没有必要改变齿轮。

• gerardo miranda said he was so nervous he made a wrong turn about a mile from the hospital.

  吉拉尔多·米兰达说，当距离医院还差1英里的地方，他因为太紧张而拐错了弯。

• if it's doomed to be strangers, then let us turn about firmly, forgetting the past, forgetting to cry.

  如果注定要成为陌路，那么就让我们绝决地转身，忘记了最初，忘记了哭！

• after a year of almost continuous retreat in africa, sicily , and italy, the german troops were glad to turn about and fight.

  一年来，德军从非洲，西西里岛和意大利几乎马不停蹄地后撤，这时高兴地转过身来杀回马枪了。

• turn about and aided by a shaky handrail up to the first floor.

  转身，抓胤住摇晃的扶手上二层。

• jimi greets me warmly, but doesn’t linger, and soon i am perched in a corner while she asks each woman in turn about her case.

  正挨个接待妇女们了解情况的吉米热情地向我打了个招呼。很快我自已找了个角落待下。

• dm having looked at time flying about in profution on the main street, turn about to inspect these again , be to feel chinese design is indeed ought to improve well.

  看遍了大街上纷飞的dm，回头再来看这些，确实是觉得中国的设计是应该好好改进的。

相似词

flip-flop使翻转；使突然转变

reversal逆转；[摄] 反转；[法] 撤销

turnaround转变；转向；突然好转；回车道

volte-face完全改变；向后转