词汇 | merry-go-round |
释义 | merry-go-round noun[ C ] uk /ˈmer.i.ɡəʊˌraʊnd/ us /ˈmer.i.ɡoʊˌraʊnd/ merry-go-roundnoun[C] (FOR CHILDREN)(UK alsoroundabout); (US alsocarousel) a large machine at a fair that turns round and has wooden or plastic animals or vehicles on which children ride: 旋转木马 The girls wanted the merry-go-round to go faster.女孩们想让旋转木马转得快一些。 Neville Mountford-Hoare/Aurora/GettyImages US(UKroundabout) a flat, round piece of equipment in play areas on which children sit or stand and are pushed round and round脚踏旋转平台 tzahiV/iStock/Getty Images Plus/GettyImages Carnival, fairground & circus acrobatics aerialist amusement arcade amusement park big dipper big top clownishly coconut shy contortionist custard pie dodgem fairground juggle juggler juggling loop the loopidiom midway Punch and Judy show trapeze artist unicycle merry-go-roundnoun[C] (SEVERAL ACTIVITIES)a series of similar activities that can often seem boring: (看上去常令人厌倦的)一连串(类似的活动) With his first book came the endless merry-go-round of publicity and interviews.随着他第一本书的出版,接踵而来的是一连串无尽的宣传和采访活动。 Order and sequence - general words alphabetize around back end be a chapter of accidentsidiom catalogue chapter cycle front end in chronological order inconsecutive inline linear linearity parade penultimately precedence priority procession secondly string merry-go-round | American Dictionarymerry-go-round noun[ C ] us/ˈmer·i·ɡoʊˌrɑʊnd/(alsocarousel) a circular stage with brightly colored artificial animals that children can ride on while it turns around and around as music plays Examples of merry-go-roundmerry-go-round Symmetries in modulated traveling waves in combustion: jumping ponies on a merry-go-round. Such forces keep the bacteria together (like a group of ice-skaters holding hands) thus forcing them to perform a "merry-go-round" like motion. There is no way off this discursive merry-go-round, apart from the option of making and breaking concepts against complex evidence. What is another name for merry-go-round? One is thinking of the overland barge possibility; of the capsule pipeline; of the conveyor belt, of the merry-go-round train between the two estuaries. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The other type of train which again has been badly affected in the past year is the merry-go-round train from pit to power station. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It sometimes seems to me that we are engaged in a gigantic game of merry-go-round. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are back on the same old merry-go-round, it is just not on. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English Is he aware that in my constituency there is total opposition to this merry-go-round arrangement? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are at a point at which we have turned the merry-go-round into a crazy spiral of administration of a tax imposition. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I feel that it is a pity that from the point of view of the local authorities this merry-go-round looks like going on and on. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is a merry-go-round from which no one can get off. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They have introduced efficient merry-go-round trains for bulk loads travelling on a regular basis. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The inner cities are a tenure trap for some people and a speedy merry-go-round for others. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is it not time that some action was taken, for the good of our economy and of our industrial relations, to stop this inflationary merry-go-round? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of merry-go-round These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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