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词汇 revolution
释义 revolution
noun
uk /ˌrev.əˈluː.ʃən/ us /ˌrev.əˈluː.ʃən/

revolutionnoun (POLITICS)


B2[ C or U ]
a change in the way a country is governed, usually to a different political system and often using violence or war: (通常指改变政治体制的)革命
The French Revolution changed France from a monarchy to a republic.法国大革命使法国由君主政体变成共和政体。
The country seems to be heading towards revolution.这个国家似乎正在走向革命。
It was very difficult to encapsulate the story of the revolution in a single one-hour documentary.将革命的前后经过浓缩成一部一小时的纪录片是很难的。
Tomorrow is the 30th anniversary of the revolution.明天是革命30周年纪念日。
He became a national hero for his part in the revolution.
The whole period leading up to the revolution is an interesting chapter in British history.
The bigger farms were parcelled out after the revolution in 1973.1973年革命后,大一些的农场都被分成小块分了出去。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Taking action against people in power
anarchist
angry young man
anti-apartheid
anti-state
bring
insurgency
insurrection
level up
mutineer
mutinous
red flag
revolt
revolutionarily
revolutionary
ringleader
subversiveness
topple
troublemaker
ungovernable
uprising

revolutionnoun (CHANGE)


B2[ C ]
a very important change in the way that people do things: 革命性剧变;大变革
a technological revolution技术革命
Penicillin produced a revolution in medicine.青霉素的发现引起了医学上的一次革命。
Trendspotter Faith Starr believes a revolution is going on in the world of conferencing.时尚发掘者费思‧斯塔尔认为,会议技术界正在发生一场革命。
The development of high-yield varieties of rice produced a revolution in the country's agriculture.
The new materials brought about a revolution in building technology.
The invention marked the beginning of a revolution in information technology.
The industrial revolution created an enormous increase in the production of many types of goods.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Change and changes
adaptive evolution
adjustment
alteration
anti-evolutionism
be ahead of the curveidiom
evolutionary
evolutionism
flatten
flip-flop
fluctuation
recalibration
reconversion
reformation
regime change
reinterpretation
unspooling
unsteadily
unsteady
untick
variation

revolutionnoun (CIRCULAR MOVEMENT)


[ S ]
a circular movement: 旋转;绕转;循环运动
The revolution of the earth around the sun was proposed by Copernicus.地球围绕太阳旋转这一观点是哥白尼提出的。
[ C ]
one complete circular movement of something, for example a wheel: (轮子等的)一转,一圈
Engine speed can be measured in revolutions per minute (abbreviationrpm).发动机的速度可以每分钟转数(缩写为rpm)来表述。
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

revolution | American Dictionary


revolution
noun[ C/U ]
us/ˌrev·əˈlu·ʃən/
social studies
a sudden and great change, esp. the violent change of a system of government:
[ U ]The country seems to be heading toward revolution.
[ C ]The discovery of penicillin produced a revolution in medicine.
a movement in a circle or curve around a central point:
[ C ]The moon makes one revolution around the earth in about 29.5 days.

revolution | Business English


revolution
noun[ C ]
uk /ˌrevəlˈuːʃən/us
a big change or improvement in the way that something works or looks, or in the way that people do a particular activity:
a revolution in sthFacing up to climate change requires a revolution in business thinking.
an economic/technological/green revolution
the digital/internet/IT revolution

Examples of revolution


revolution
Rather, he stressed that the more people, the greater the energy for socialist revolution and construction.
This context helps explain the historical significance of the early twentieth-century debate about the origins of the scientific revolution.
This biomedical revolution includes procedures and strategies in therapy, diagnosis, and prevention of diseases.
By no means, however, does such a development imply a scientific revolution or paradigm change.
But certainly he lived in an age when humanism and the scientific revolution had affected the way people thought.
Whether this calls for a new and "universally acceptable definition" of revolution that encompasses all that the author suggests is neither obvious nor realistic.
This view places her squarely in the camp of scholars who emphasize the external factors of revolution.
It dodges the ' military revolution ' question in favour of exploring the size, behaviour and experiences of armies and fighting.
The alliance of rural notables and urban bourgeois once again let their fears of socialist revolution lead to more domestic state violence in 1871.
Except that the revolution has already been underway for four decades.
If many of the findings of the archival revolution confirm what had already been argued in the academic literature, what have we learned?
In particular, the revolution was seen as unnecessary and disruptive.
The selection process has been mainly concerned with the size and pulses / revolution of the shaft encoder.
Yet it would be hard to argue that early modern history has not benefited from the 'military revolution ' debate.
My only purpose here is to point out that such changes are basically what we would normally call a social revolution.
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Collocations withrevolution


revolution

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agricultural revolution
The 10,000-year-old agriculturalrevolution continues.
armed revolution
He may demand its overthrow by armed revolution.
bloodless revolution
A bloodlessrevolution took place between 1945 and 1951.
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