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round

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round1 /raʊnd/ ●●● S2 W2 especially British EnglishBrE (also around) adverbadv, prepositionprep
1  AROUND/ROUNDsurrounding or on all sides of something or someone 圍繞；在…周圍
We sat round the table playing cards.
我們圍桌而坐玩紙牌。
Gather round! I have an important announcement to make.
大家圍攏來！我有重要事情要宣布。
He put his arm gently round her waist.
他輕輕地摟着她的腰。
I kept the key on a chain round my neck.
我給鑰匙穿了根鏈子挂在脖子上。
The ballroom’s huge, with windows all the way round.
舞廳很大，四周都是窗戶。
There was a lovely courtyard with tables all round.
有一個漂亮的庭院，四周都是桌子。
2  OPPOSITE/REVERSEused to say that someone or something turns so that they face in the opposite direction 朝反方向，轉過來
When he turned round I recognised him immediately.
他轉過身來，我立即認出了他。
Graham glanced round, startled by the voice behind him.
格雷厄姆聽到背後的聲音一驚，回頭掃了一眼。
3  in or to many places or parts of an area 到處，四處
Reggie went round making sure all the lights were off.
雷吉走了一圈，確保所有燈都關了。
Leah showed me round on my first day at the office.
我上班第一天，利娅帶我在辦公室走了一圈。
A guide took us round the palace and gardens.
一名導遊帶我們參觀了宮殿和花園。
He spent a whole year travelling round Europe.
他花了整整一年周遊歐洲。
She looked round the room as though leaving it for the last time.
她環顧房間，那樣子就像要永遠離開這裏了。
changes that are affecting the weather all round the world
影響全球氣候的一些變化
4  TURNmoving in a circle 旋轉，繞着…轉動
She watched the clock hands go round.
她看着鐘的指針轉動。
An aeroplane was circling round far overhead.
一架飛機在高空盤旋。
Until the 16th century people believed that the Sun went round the Earth.
直至16世紀人們一直認爲太陽圍繞地球轉。
He stared at the washing machine, just watching the clothes go round and round.
他盯着洗衣機，看着衣服一圈圈地轉。
a shoal of tiny fish swimming round in circles
一群轉圈遊動的小魚
5  informal if you go round to someone’s house, you go to their house, usually to visit them 到，去〔某人家〕
I might go round to Nigel’s this evening.
我今天晚上可能去奈傑爾家。
He’s invited us round for dinner.
他邀請我們去他家吃晚飯。
We’ll be round (=will arrive) at seven.
我們將在7點到。
6  AROUND/ROUNDto other people or positions 分給〔其他人〕；移至〔其他地方〕
A big box of chocolates was handed round.
一大盒巧克力分給了大家。
He’d moved his furniture round.
他把家具換了位置。
7  on the other side of something, or to the other side of it without going through it or over it 在…另一邊；繞過
He ran round to open Kate’s door for her.
他跑過去給凱特開門。
There must be another entrance round the back.
後面一定還有個入口。
I watched the two boys disappear round the corner.
我看着這兩個男孩拐過彎不見了。
round to
She came round to his side of the desk.
她繞到桌子那頭他坐的一邊。
8  in the area near a particular place 在…附近
Much of the countryside round Hinkley Point is given over to agriculture.
辛克利角附近的鄉間有許多地區都被用於農業開墾。
Do you live round here?
你住在附近嗎？
He owned all the land round about (=in the surrounding area).
這一帶的土地都是他的。
9  round about APPROXIMATELY spoken informal (also round) used when guessing a number, amount, time etc without being exact 大約 SYN approximately
We got there round about half past nine.
我們大約9點半到了那兒。
He’s round about the same age as my son.
他大概和我兒子差不多年齡。
It must have been round midnight when I saw him.
我看到他的時候肯定已經是半夜前後了。
10  used to show that someone spends time in a place without doing anything useful 閒待着
People were just standing round and not doing anything to help.
旁邊的人只是站着，也不做點什麽幫一下。
11  if something is organized round a particular person or thing, it is organized according to their needs, wishes, ideas etc 以…爲中心，圍繞
Working from home, she could arrange her hours round her children.
在家工作，她就可以按照孩子的需要安排時間了。
He had built his whole existence round her.
他的全部生活都以她爲中心。
12  DEAL WITHa way round a difficult situation or problem is a way to solve it or avoid it 解決〔問題〕；繞過〔問題〕
She’s going to have to buy a car. I can’t see any other way round it.
她只能去買一輛車了，我看沒有其他辦法。
strategies to get round (=solve) the problem
解決這個問題的策略
13  TMAROUND/ROUNDused to show the length of a line surrounding something 周長
The park was about five miles round.
公園的外圍大概有五英裏。
→ all round, → go round in circles at circle1(5), → (a)round the clock at clock1(2), → (just) around/round the corner at corner1(9), → first/second time round at time1(3), → way round at way1(24)
Examples from the Corpus
all round• Bernie ordered drinks all round.• We always strove to get a solution that was acceptable all round.• I was a big disappointment to her all round.• There were smiles all round as he stood up to make his speech.• With handshakes all round everyone left, leaving her and Nathan alone.• The boy was making straight for the stone, holding his stick up and making little darting glances all round him.• He was white all round his mouth.• Above that a heavy mantle is wrapped all round the body and brought over the head.• His Mum made him sit on one of the chairs that were all round the walls and look at the magazines.• They have been in the middle of war and think nothing of hearing shooting all round them.• There were tears all round when the time came for him to leave.
all round• I was a big disappointment to her all round.• We always strove to get a solution that was acceptable all round.• With handshakes all round everyone left, leaving her and Nathan alone.• The boy was making straight for the stone, holding his stick up and making little darting glances all round him.• He was white all round his mouth.• Above that a heavy mantle is wrapped all round the body and brought over the head.• His Mum made him sit on one of the chairs that were all round the walls and look at the magazines.• They have been in the middle of war and think nothing of hearing shooting all round them.
round in circles• His greater strength over mine would have sent the boat turning round and round in circles.• Why do I keep walking round and round in circles?• Flight rather weak, but buoyant swimmers, like tiny gulls, often spinning round in circles and picking insects off surface.• At dawn I was still going round in circles in a five mile stack over Edinburgh airspace.• For I appear to be going round in circles in answer to a question which has been worrying me for some time.• As it crawls round and round in circles it keeps revisiting the same pebbles.• Mostly, they go round in circles, reflecting only the idiom of the day.• The station was only round a few corners - I must have walked round in circles the day before.
round the corner• But even more of a reprieve was lurking round the corner.• He knew it would be gone before he rounded the corner.• She flew down Puddle Lane, round the corner, and back into Market Square.• I round the corner and start towards the barn behind the kitchen gardens.• Even nails stopped in his stride as they rounded the corner by the cinema queue.• If the Musée Bonn at is plush and metropolitan, the Musée Basque round the corner is local and very homely.• Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.• I rounded the corner, then stopped, waited a moment and peeked back into the lobby.
round about• She's round about 26 or 27.
get round ... problem• In a running-down case it is quite simple to get round this problem.• The payment of an inflation proof and/or sterling-related salary may be made to get round these problems.• Single-ended slot blades would get round the problem, but aren't on offer;.• There are a number of tortured perspectives on how to get round this problem, but they are themselves fraught with problems.• Consultants can get round this problem by acting as a neutral third party.• London Transport could get round this problem by increasing the power of its transmissions and blotting out foreign broadcasts.• In Amalgamemnon Brooke-Rose gets round this problem by using non-realized tenses and moods.• This also gets round problems of fluctuation, when business is slow, they do not have to maintain a regular workforce.
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round2 ●●● S1 W2 adjectiveadj
1  CFCIRCLEshaped like a circle 圓的，圓形的
a big round table
一張大圓桌
Jamie’s eyes grew round with delight.
傑米高興得瞪圓了眼睛。
2  CFROUNDshaped like a ball 球形的
small round berries
小圓漿果
3  ROUNDfat and curved 圓鼓鼓的
round chubby cheeks
圓嘟嘟的臉頰
4  HMN[only before noun] a round number or figure is a whole number, often ending in 0 整數的〔常指10的倍數〕 → round up
Let’s make it a round figure: say £50?
我們就湊個整數吧，50英鎊怎麽樣？
in round figures (=expressed as the nearest 10,100,1, 000 etc) 用約整數表示
Altogether, in round figures, there are about three thousand students here.
算整數，這兒總共有大約3,000名學生。
a round hundred/dozen etc (=a complete hundred etc) 整一百/整一打等
→ a square peg in a round hole at square1(12)
—roundness noun [uncountableU]
Examples from the Corpus
round• It's sunglasses all round as our richly-coiffed Tory front benchers try to fight eye-strain caused by their chrome-domed pinko opponents.• The round dining table is dark rosewood with a matching set of chairs.• His large round eyes probed Miguel that first time, as if he could look inside with ease.• Violet stared at him with her huge round eyes.• His stomach was big and round from drinking too much beer.• He wore round glasses with wire rims.• His bald round head reminded her of Sam.• a short round man• It probably costs more, but $200 is a nice round number.• Some women ground corn or wheat on huge round stones.• In the kitchen there was a round table with a vase of flowers on it.• European watermelons are much rounder than the American variety.• The moon was perfectly round that night.• The recipe calls for large round tomatoes.• The boatmen who brought trade goods up the Missouri as far as the Yellowstone made $ 220 for the round trip.• She drew a round yellow sun in the center of the picture.
in round figures• That's five and a half hours at a bit under two knots - say ten miles in round figures.• The LibDems, in round figures, had 45 percent, Conservatives 25 percent and Labour 17.• Estimates for the delay, given in round figures, ranged from two to eight hours.
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round3 ●●○ noun [countableC]
1  series 系列CONNECTED WITH a round of events is a series of related events, which are part of a longer process 輪，輪次
round of
a third round of peace talks
第三輪和平談判
the Government’s latest round of expenditure cuts
政府最近一次削減支出
2  competition 比賽DS one of the parts of a competition that you have to finish or win before you can go on to the next part 〔比賽的〕輪，局，場 → heat, stage
the first/final/next/qualifying etc round
I got beaten in the first round.
我在第一輪就被打敗了。
Two of their candidates made it through to the next round.
他們的候選人中有兩名進入了下一輪。
round of
the final round of the championship
錦標賽的最後一輪
3  REGULAR ACTIVITIES 慣常的活動round of something a round of activities is a regular series of activities, especially activities that are not very exciting 一系列常規活動；慣常的活動
an endless round of meetings and interviews
沒完沒了的會議和采訪
He continued with his usual round of private and business engagements.
他生活依舊，除了私事就是公事。
the daily round of commuting and shopping
上下班和購物的日常例行事務
Examples from the Corpus
daily round• It seems J.F. Cooper played his daily rounds with only five clubs!• He was quite different from the stringy little animals I saw on my daily round.• Practically every day in one way or another we carry out some form of sampling for ourselves in our ordinary daily round.• For many years her life was almost a caricature of the daily round of the Victorian upper-class spinster.• After four carefree years, one enters the Company, where the daily round of obedient toil begins again.
4  VISITS 探訪rounds [plural]MHVISIT the usual visits that someone, especially a doctor, regularly makes as part of their job 巡訪；〔尤指醫生的〕定期巡診
be (out) on your rounds
I’m sorry. The doctor is out on her rounds.
對不起，醫生出去巡診了。
Examples from the Corpus
be (out) on your rounds• I was out on my rounds as usual.
5  round of applause APwhen people clap for a short time to show that they enjoyed something or approve of something 一陣掌聲
She got a big round of applause.
她博得一陣熱烈的掌聲。
The passengers gave the pilot a round of applause.
乘客給飛行員一陣掌聲。
Examples from the Corpus
round of applause• Oh boy I need a round of applause.• The team gives Ted a round of applause.• To a round of applause, Mrs Fanning was escorted back to the table by her partner.• There was a round of applause for Captain Pintar.• When Wooley, who is a witty and vigorously persuasive speaker, finished, she received a big round of applause.• The whistling sounded like feedback, and his hammering on the piano became a dying round of applause.• Not a Cal Ripken pent-up emotional outburst kind of ovation, mind you, but a nice little round of applause.• That got a rapturous round of applause too. emailinc Yeah, great!
6  golf 高爾夫球DSG a complete game of golf 一場〔指打完球場裏所有的洞〕
I played a round of golf on Sunday morning.
星期天早上我打了一場高爾夫球。
7. boxing/wrestling 拳擊/摔跤DSO one of the periods of fighting in a boxing or wrestling match 〔拳擊或摔跤比賽的〕一個回合
8  drinks 飲料DLBUY if you buy a round of drinks in a bar, you buy drinks for all the people in your group 〔在酒吧爲同伴買的〕一巡〔飲料〕
it’s my/your etc round (=used to say whose turn it is to buy drinks for all the people in your group) 這一巡輪到我/你等請客
What are you having? It’s my round.
你們喝什麽？這一巡我請客。
9  do the rounds British EnglishBrE informal, make the rounds American English (also go the rounds British EnglishBrE)GIVE if a story, idea, or illness does the rounds, it is passed on from one person to another 〔故事、觀點或疾病〕傳播，流傳
a joke doing the rounds
一個正在流傳的笑話
Examples from the Corpus
do the rounds• Without references, letters may do the rounds of various desks before the correct destination is found.• The first offered to do the rounds for five dollars.
10  do the rounds of something British EnglishBrE, make the rounds of something American EnglishVISIT to go around from one place to another, especially looking for work or advertising something 去各處做某事〔尤指找工作或作宣傳〕
Ryan is making the rounds of talk shows to promote her new movie.
瑞安正到處出席訪談節目，宣傳她的新片。
Examples from the Corpus
do the rounds of something• Without references, letters may do the rounds of various desks before the correct destination is found.
11  gun shot 槍彈發射PMWSHOOT a single shot from a gun, or a bullet for one shot 一槍；一發
I’ve only got ten rounds of ammunition left.
我就剩十發子彈了。
Richards fired a few rounds.
理查茲開了幾槍。
12  circle 圓CFCIRCLE something that has a circular shape 圓形物
Slice the potatoes into rounds.
把馬鈴薯切成圓形薄片。
13  food/newspapers/letters etc 食品/報紙/信件等BBTVISIT British EnglishBrE a regular visit to a number of houses, offices etc to deliver or sell things 〔固定的〕遞送路線
paper/milk round (=a job in which you deliver newspapers, milk etc to people’s houses) 上門送報紙/送牛奶
I used to do a paper round.
我以前幹過上門送報紙的活。
14. song 歌曲APM a song for three or four singers, in which each one sings the same tune, starting at a different time 輪唱曲
15. round of sandwiches British EnglishBrEDF sandwiches made from two whole pieces of bread 〔用兩整片面包做成的〕三明治
16. round of toast British EnglishBrEDF one whole piece of bread that has been toasted 一整片烤面包
Examples from the Corpus
round of toast• The evening ended with a final round of toasts.• Top with the remaining rounds of toast.
17. in the round APTa play that is performed in the round is performed on a central stage surrounded by the people watching it 舞台設在中央的〔觀衆圍繞在舞台四周〕
Examples from the Corpus
in the round• A case that is considered thoroughly is looked at in the round and all the relevant factors are taken into proper consideration.• This does not imply that Rassendyll is developed as a character in the round.• In future, officers received specialist military training only after they had been educated in the round.• Later in the round, on the par-four twelfth, he faced a yard approach shot into a ten-knot wind.• Consider, for example, two mural paintings in the round temple at Epidaurus, once an internationally famed health clinic.• Sculpted or molded objects are best seen in the round.• Lying on silk in the round leather box was a bracelet.
n COLLOCATIONS
phrases
a round of talks/negotiations/meetings
A second round of talks got under way this week.
a round of voting
In the first round of voting he took 44.5 percent of the vote,
a round of cuts (=when a government or a company reduces the size or amount of something)
The president is likely to approve a new round of cuts in military forces.
a round of layoffs (=when people are told to leave their jobs)
The latest round of layoffs could bring its labor force down to 60,000.
a round of violence
What has prompted the latest round of violence?
Examples from the Corpus
round• More than 30 rounds were fired at the guards.• To serve, place sauteed bread rounds on warm plates and arrange birds on top.• The first four rounds are designed to produce 32 prize-winning county champions, who will then go forward to the national rounds.• But it isn't; it's the good rounds that bring you back.• Cut the carrots into half-inch rounds.• The heroes of the last round were perhaps Paul Clarkson and John Simpkins, the goalkeeper.• I'll buy the next round of beers.• The second round of voting is scheduled for May 5.• Hamed won the fight in the seventh round.• Purdue lost to Kansas State in the third round.• Cunningly simple: two contestants, three rounds and a panel of three celebrity judges.• Last week in New York, he stopped respectable light heavyweight Merqui Sosa in only two rounds.
round of• A final round of talks is scheduled in Tokyo next year.
the first/final/next/qualifying etc round• The barely acknowledged hope caused her heart to beat faster as she reached for the first round iron latch.• Now we can look forward to a really big crowd at Goodison for Chelsea in the next round.• Voters in these constituencies would choose between whichever two candidates had won the largest numbers of votes in the first round.• In the first round of the Rochester Open in 1941, Hogan burned up the course, shooting a record 64.• In the first round, I hit him with by best shot right on the chin and! ital!• In the first round, I went to the center of the ring.• In the first round, Palmer scored a 12 there, hitting out of bounds four times.• Tiger Woods had started the final round nine behind the leaders.
played a round of golf• I played a round of golf in a group which included Prost and Mansell.• I did a few odds and ends in the garden on Saturday, played a round of golf on Sunday morning.
it’s my/your etc round• Or is it because it's my round?
fired ... rounds• Both the driver and the passenger were armed and fired several rounds before being shot dead by security men.• Each Vickers K fired a thousand rounds a minute.
do ... round• And don't turn round when you talk to me.• And take my tip, don't come round again.• And do what? Round up the rats?• He even does rounds at the local hospital, ensuring that the terminally ill remain plugged in.• Without references, letters may do the rounds of various desks before the correct destination is found.• On Saturday morning, Peter went off to do his rounds of parish patients at Woodborough Hospital.• The first offered to do the rounds for five dollars.• Which way do they go round more quickly?
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round4 ●○○ verb
1  TURN[transitiveT] to go round something such as a bend or the corner of a building 環繞…而行，繞過，拐過
As they rounded the bend and came in sight of the river, Philip took her hand.
他們轉過彎，看到河的時候，菲利普牽起了她的手。
The tide was coming in as he rounded the rocks.
他繞過岩石的時候正在漲潮。
2  CFROUND[transitiveT] to make something into a round shape 使成圓形
The stones were then rounded, polished and engraved.
接着石頭被打圓、磨光、刻上圖案。
3  [intransitiveI] written if your eyes round, you open them wide because you are shocked, frightened etc 〔由於震驚、害怕等眼睛〕睜圓
Barbara’s eyes rounded in surprise.
芭芭拉驚訝得眼睛都睜圓了。
→ rounded, well-rounded PHRASAL VERBS
Examples from the Corpus
round• The race for the nomination has rounded a corner.• Their huts were short tepees protected by tree branches or rounded huts covered with animal skins.• Again do not round over the sharp edges when sanding.• Drop by rounded teaspoons on to a greased non-stick cookie sheet.• As I rounded the corner, I could see that the house was on fire.• The edges of the counter have been rounded to make them safer.• The result was the Yosemite that tourists see today, jammed with awe-inspiring plutons with rounded tops and steep, vertical sides.• All that slim, rounded, unclothed flesh I'd seen - from the back - had not been girl flesh.• He was rounded up about a week later, having stolen four more vehicles.• Dear Jamie, Please remember to round your letters and curl your tails.
rounded ... bend• Then they rounded the bend by the Bahan shrine and dropped down into the darkness of the valley.• He rounded the bend nearest the building, and nearly dropped the branch for throwing up his hands in frustration.• As they rounded the bend towards Westminster, Ranulf nudged Corbett and pointed to the near bank.
From Longman Business Dictionary
roundround1 /raʊnd/ adjectiveadj
1a round number or sum is a whole number, often ending in 0
Let’s make it a round £50 I owe you.
2in round figures when an amount is not expressed as an exact number, but as the nearest 10,100,1, 000 etc
In round figures, the expected profit is about £600 million.
roundround2 noun [countableC]
a number or set of things that are connected such as a series of meetings or discussions
round of
The current round of bargaining began on Oct. 23.
Canadian retailers are facing a round of bankruptcies after being hit by one of the worst holiday sales seasons ever.
→ see also buying round, milk round
roundround3 verbACCOUNTING
→ round something → down
→ round something → up
Origin round2
(1200-1300) Old French roont, from Latin rotundus

See also: round about

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