rotate

Examples

The discussion kept going round in circles.讨论一直在原地兜圈子。
A dynamo on a bicycle will power a pair of lights while the wheels are going round.
The Earth takes approximately 365 days to go round the Sun.
It must be broken. The CD's not going round.
The children went round and round on the carousel.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Revolving, rotating and spinning
around
around and aroundidiom
backspin
birl
centrifugal
reel
rotary
rotate
rotation
rotational
rotative
spin
spiral
swim
swing
swizzle
twirl
twirling
twirly
underspin

(BE ENOUGH)

If there is enough of something to go round, there is enough for everyone in a group of people: 满足大家的需要；足够分给每个人
Are there enough pencils to go round?铅笔够分吗？
There weren't enough chairs to go round.
Are there enough leaflets to go round?
Let me know if there are not enough glasses to go round.
You'll have to share the handouts if there aren't enough to go round.
There was more than enough custard to go round.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Enough
'nuff said
adequacy
adequate
adequately
close enough for government workidiom
cover
enough
go
good
government
respectable
respectably
satiable
satisfiable
say
suffice (it) to sayidiom
sufficiency
sufficient
sufficiently
that will doidiom

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Scarce, inadequate and not enough

(BEHAVE BADLY)

to spend your time behaving in the stated way: 习惯于（以某种方式行事）
[ + -ing verb ]You can't go round being rude to people.你不能老是对人这样粗暴。
She went round slagging off her ex-boyfriend.
You'll get into trouble if you keep going round behaving like that.
He was going round looking for a fight.
She went round looking moody.
You can't go round ignoring people when they speak to you.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Bad and wrong behaviour
act out
angel
ASB
astray
at your worstidiom
be up to no goodidiom
go off the railsidiom
gross misconduct
hellion
immoralist
impossible
profligate
raise hellidiom
rakish
rakishly
rakishness
unworthily
unworthy
villainy
while the cat's away, the mice will playidiom

(VISIT)

to visit someone in their home: （到…家）拜访，走访
go round toI'm just going round to Martha's for half an hour.我正要到玛莎家去坐上半小时。
I'll go round later and see how he is.我一会儿过去，看看他怎么样。
We go round every Wednesday afternoon.
She was just about to go round to the neighbours when the phone rang.
We are going round for dinner on Saturday.
We often go round on a Saturday night.
We're going round to Ian's for dinner next Friday.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Visiting
attraction
beard the lion (in his/her den)idiom
been
call (in) on someone
call by
exchange
happen along/by (somewhere)
haunt
have access to someone/something
homestay
house-to-house
pay
pop
regular
round
stay
stomping ground
stop by (somewhere)
stop in
stop off somewhere

go round (somewhere)

phrasal verb with goverbuk /ɡəʊ/ us /ɡoʊ/present participlegoing | past tensewent | past participlegone
UK(USgo around (somewhere))
to go or be given from one person to another, or to move from one place to another: （在某些人之间或某些地方）传递，流传，传播
A nasty flu bug is going round (the school) at the moment.眼下一种传染性很强的流感病毒正在（学校）传播。
There's a rumour going round (the village) that they're having an affair.（村里）有传言说他们之间关系暧昧。
There's a rumour going round that she intends to leave the company.
I heard a rumour's going round that she's seeing Luke Harrison.
There's a bug going round.
This virus has been going round for weeks.
This virus has been going round the school.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

General words for movement
betake
body English
budge
budge up
carry
circulate
gone
inertly
keepy-uppy
kinetic
kinetic energy
kinetically
motion
pass
repair to somewhere
round
scoot
seethe
shove
slip

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Spreading and scattering
Giving, providing and supplying

go round something

phrasal verb with goverbuk /ɡəʊ/ us /ɡoʊ/present participlegoing | past tensewent | past participlegone
UK(USgo around something)
to travel to all, or the main, parts of a place that you are visiting in order to find out what it is like or to learn about it: 参观
For a few weeks in the summer, visitors are able to go round the palace.每年夏季有几个星期游人可以进入皇宫参观。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Travelling
around Robin Hood's barnidiom
backpack
bag drop
bourne
bum
bum around
communication
commuting
connection
gad about/around (somewhere)
move
negotiate
shuttle
super-commuting
swan
taken
tour
transoceanic
visa
well travelled