英:[ˈraʊndəbaʊt]
美:[ˈraʊndəbaʊt]
英:[ˈraʊndəbaʊt]
美:[ˈraʊndəbaʊt]
round·a·bout
raUn d baUt
复数:roundabouts
比较级:more roundabout
最高级:most roundabout
Noun
1. a road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island;
"the accident blocked all traffic at the rotary"
2. large mechanical apparatus with seats for children to ride on
Adjective
1. marked by obliqueness or indirection in speech or conduct;
"the explanation was circuitous and puzzling"
"a roundabout paragraph"
"hear in a roundabout way that her ex-husband was marrying her best friend"
2. deviating from a straight course;
"a scenic but devious route"
"a long and circuitous journey by train and boat"
"a roundabout route avoided rush-hour traffic"
in a roundabout way以一种转弯抹角的方式
14世纪中期, roundeaboute,意为“绕道而行”,也可表示“在四周,周围”,源自 round(副词),请参见 round(形容词),加上 about。作为形容词,意为“在环形或圆形中”,始于14世纪中期。到了15世纪末(卡克斯顿),成为介词。作为形容词,始于1600年左右。名词“交通环岛”的意义可追溯至1927年。此前,它也用于其他事物,例如“圆形的路线或物体”(1530年代),“丰满的、圆润的身材”(1812年),“绕路”(1755年),“旋转木马”(1763年)。相关词汇: Roundaboutness。
环形交叉
又称 :环形交叉(rotary intersection )
环行交叉
环行道
The first known use of roundabout was in 1608
round1 of 5adjective
having every part of the surface or circumference the same distance from the center
shaped like a cylinder
a round peg
nearly round
a round face
plump entry 5
complete entry 1 sense 1
a round dozen
nearly correct or exact to a certain decimal place
use the round number 1400 for the exact figure 1411
large
a good round sum
moving in or forming a circle
having lifelike fullness
a round character in a story
having fullness of tone
having curves rather than angles
round2 of 5adverb
around entry 1
round3 of 5noun
something (as a circle, globe, or ring) that is round
a song in which three or four singers sing the same melody and words one after another at intervals
rung entry 2
an indirect or circling path
a regularly covered route
a watchman's rounds
a series of calls or stops regularly made
a doctor's hospital rounds
a drink apiece served at one time to each person in a group
a series or cycle of repeated actions or events
opened a new round of peace talks
one shot fired by a soldier or weapon
ammunition for one shot
a unit of play in a contest or game
a round of golf
a cut of beef especially between the rump and the lower leg
round4 of 5verb
to make or become round
to pronounce a sound with rounding of the lips
to go or pass around
rounded the curve
to bring to completion—often used with off or out
to express as a round numberespecially: to drop any digits to the right of a given decimal place and increase the last remaining digit by 1 if the first dropped digit is 5 or greater
4.57268 rounded off to three decimal places is 4.573
to follow a winding course
round5 of 5preposition
around entry 2
roundhousenoun
a circular building where locomotives are kept or repaired
a blow with the hand made with a wide swing
rub inverb
to keep reminding someone of something unpleasant
you don't have to rub it in
roundelaynoun
a simple song with refrain
roundedadjective
curving or round in shape
roundaboutadjective
not direct
went a roundabout way
1 Here we have a roundabout way, first are converted to a string, formatted as text displayed.
在此我们有一个迂回的方法, 先把它们转换为字符串, 格式化后以文本形式显示出来.
2 The car stalled at the roundabout.
那辆汽车在环形交叉处抛锚了。
3 The roundabout is Located at the intersection of the Mount Rose Highway and state Route 28 in Incline Village.
4 I still want to tell this story, and he does it in a kind of roundabout way.
我还是想说这个故事,他用一种迂回的方式做。
5 Martin’s shop was only a block and a half away if Moss went the quickest way, but that brought him right past Dawit’s shop, so he usually took a more roundabout route.
6 We heard the news in a roundabout way.
我们是间接听到这个消息的.
7 It’s my roundabout way of explaining how lucky I was as a young sports fan.
8 The traffic gets snarled up very often at that roundabout.
在那个环形路的交叉口,交通时常发生阻塞.
9 Both of the orchestra’s leaders came to Latin music via roundabout routes.
10 Their program set, the gallery started e-mailing selected clients, “telling them in roundabout terms what we’re bringing — a list of artists with one or two images to give them a taste,” Mr. Zwirner said.
11 Freedom of speech is being realized in a roundabout way.
言论自由正在以一种迂回的方式实现。
12 For a non-Yiddish speaker, this somewhat streamlined adaptation — written by Joseph Buloff in 1949, the year “Salesman” had its Broadway premiere — is a roundabout way of getting at Arthur Miller’s play.
13 In her manipulative, roundabout way, Maud is as much the abuser as Vilko is in this chilly, dark portrait of two control freaks locking horns.
14 In a roundabout way, he caused a new name to be added to this list.
15 Stories are created from pieces and shards, he tells us, as he narrates, in roundabout fashion, a search for literary inspiration that became a profound encounter — and a re-examination of his core priorities and beliefs.
16 In a roundabout way, "St. Vincent" delivers, though less as a film than a platform for an object lesson by St. Bill in effortless acting.
17 Where: In a roundabout at the entrance to the Riverside Drive Bridge over the Los Angeles River at Figueroa Street and San Fernando Road, near where the 110 and 5 freeways meet.
18 He’ll try to articulate the connection, he says: “And most likely it will go in a roundabout way, but I hope what I say will be worthwhile and purposeful.”
19 In fact most people can't understand what to do, and this condition isn't affected by proximity to roundabouts.
20 There was a slight noise behind her and she turned just in time to seize a small boy by the slack of his roundabout and arrest his flight.
这时在她身后传来一声轻微的响声,她转身一把抓住了一个小男孩的短外套的衣角,他想跑都跑不掉了。
1 环岛
2 包围
surrounding environment investment embrace enclosure investiture envelopment pale inwreathe contain involve round ring invest surround fold lap encompass compass enclose siege orb circumvent twine envelop encircle girdle corral swathe beset gird circumscribe environ beleaguer enring enwreathe embay begird sit down before close round fetch in close about
3 圆
nummular orbiculate round circular spherical cyclic moony armillary s. gyr- dollar circle won rotundity full interpret
4 绕道的
5 环行交通枢纽
7 间接的
overhead circular indirect mediate oblique backdoor circumstantial elliptic circuitous circumferential backhanded secondhand devious at second hand collateral second-hand evasive
8 迂回
indirect oblique circuitous ambagious round turn circuit detour go-around circuity wind fetch a compass circular winding devious tortuous sinuous circumferential periphrastic circumlocutory meandrous around distantly circularly deviously indirection circumbendibus wheel fetch about fetch around fetch round circuitously circumvolution weave bypass compass make a detour make a circuit of periphrasis serpentine
9 迂回的
indirect oblique circuitous ambagious circular winding devious tortuous sinuous circumferential periphrastic circumlocutory meandrous serpentine
11 环形交通枢纽
12 环形交叉路口
13 拐弯抹角的
14 包围的
15 兜圈子
17 委婉的说法
18 间接
overhead circular indirect mediate oblique backdoor circumstantial elliptic circuitous circumferential backhanded secondhand devious at second hand collateral second-hand evasive
20 短外套
24 兜圈子的
27 旋转平台
28 环行交叉