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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。
 
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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
 
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

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 Dictionary


merry-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-round


merry-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.
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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.
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It sometimes seems to me that we are engaged in a gigantic game of merry-go-round.
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We are back on the same old merry-go-round, it is just not on.
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Is he aware that in my constituency there is total opposition to this merry-go-round arrangement?
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We are at a point at which we have turned the merry-go-round into a crazy spiral of administration of a tax imposition.
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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.
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It is a merry-go-round from which no one can get off.
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They have introduced efficient merry-go-round trains for bulk loads travelling on a regular basis.
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The inner cities are a tenure trap for some people and a speedy merry-go-round for others.
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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?
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