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TOEFL BNC: 1858 COCA: 2753

revolution

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Related topics: Politics, Sociology
rev·o·lu·tion /ˌrevəˈluːʃən/ ●●○ W3 AWL noun
1  [countableC]CHANGE/BECOME DIFFERENT a complete change in ways of thinking, methods of working etc 〔思想、工作方式等的〕徹底變革，革命
revolution in
In the last ten years there has been a revolution in education.
近十年來，教育發生了巨大的變化。
social/cultural/sexual etc revolution
the biggest social revolution we have had in this country
我們國家所經歷的最大的社會變革
the sexual revolution of the 1960s
20世紀60年代的性革命
→ Industrial Revolution, the
2  [countableC, uncountableU]PPSS a time when people change a ruler or political system by using force or violence 〔使用武力或暴力的〕革命 → revolt, rebellion
the French Revolution of 1789
1789年法國大革命
The role of women has changed since the revolution.
革命以後婦女的角色已有改變。
The country seems to be heading towards revolution.
該國似乎在走向革命。
→ counter-revolution
3  TURN
a) [countableC, uncountableU] a circular movement around something 旋轉 → revolve
revolution around
the planets’ revolution around the Sun
行星圍繞太陽的公轉
b) TURN[countableC] one complete circular spinning movement, made by something such as a wheel attached to a central point 旋轉一周 → revolve
a speed of 100 revolutions per minute
每分鐘100轉的轉速
 THESAURUS
revolt/rebellion/uprising an attempt by a large group of people at revolution 起義；反叛
a popular uprising (=involving ordinary people, not the army)
民變
coup /kuː/ an occasion when a group of people, especially soldiers, suddenly take control of a country ﹝尤指軍人發動的﹞政變
a military coup
軍事政變
Examples from the Corpus
revolution• The 1789 revolution marked the end of the French monarchy.• The shaft spins at 950 revolutions per minute.• Penicillin began a revolution in the treatment of infectious disease.• They argue that our schools are failing our children, and that the education system needs a revolution.• It needed not only a revolution in organisation but in technology too.• Einstein's General Theory of Relativity started a revolution in scientific thinking.• Abandoned by her family and deserted by her servants, Elena Petrescu was incapable of grasping that a revolution had happened.• This was a revolution in thought.• the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917• Just 12 days after the emperor's death, the country erupted into revolution.• The planet rotates in the same direction as its revolution around the sun.• The upheavals of the era tended to come together, one kind of revolution easily attaching itself to another.• Talk of revolution and counter-revolution has been banned from the rhetoric of the moment.• The Earth makes one revolution around the sun each year.• an era of rural unrest and peasant revolution• Trotsky was one of the leading figures in the Russian Revolution of 1917.• The 1970s saw the beginnings of a new technological revolution, based on microelectronics.• the technological revolution• Apple had gone off to start the revolution without Xerox.
social/cultural/sexual etc revolution• Petrashevskii's proposal that merchants be allowed to buy populated estates hardly bespoke a passion for social revolution.• Primary schoolchildren from Cultural Revolution days seemed regimented - yet were encouraged to criticize their teachers.• Other social revolutions have bearing on the e-commerce applications.• On the other hand they were allowed to criticize their teachers, something unthinkable before the Cultural Revolution.• The crimes which everyone committed, he concludes, were caused by the Cultural Revolution.• During the Cultural Revolution, he was sent to the countryside to plant rice for two years.• It is about individual struggles with social revolution.
From Longman Business Dictionary
revolutionrev·o·lu·tion /ˌrevəˈluːʃən/ noun [countableC]
a complete change in ways of thinking, methods of working etc
revolution in
Computer technology has caused a revolution in working practices.
—revolutionary adjectiveadj
revolutionary advances in aircraft design
→ see also Industrial Revolution
Origin revolution
(1300-1400) Old French Latin revolutio, from revolvere; → REVOLVE
rev·o·lu·tion noun →THESAURUS1
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