及物动词

不及物动词

名词

1. 圆;圆形;圆圈
A circle is a shape consisting of a curved line completely surrounding an area. Every part of the line is the same distance from the centre of the area.

2. 圆形物;圆片;圆块
A circle of something is a round flat piece or area of it.

3. 一圈（物体或人）
A circle of objects or people is a group of them arranged in the shape of a circle.

4. 包围;围绕;环绕
If something circles an object or a place, or circles around it, it forms a circle around it.

5. (在上空)盘旋，绕圈子
If an aircraft or a bird circles or circles something, it moves round in a circle in the air.

6. 围绕…移动;绕着…转圈
To circle around someone or something, or to circle them, means to move around them.

7. 在…上画圈;将…圈起来
If you circle something on a piece of paper, you draw a circle around it.

8. (指朋友或有相同兴趣或职业的人组成的)圈子，界
You can refer to a group of people as a circle when they meet each other regularly because they are friends or because they belong to the same profession or share the same interests.

9. (剧院、影院的)楼厅包厢
In a theatre or cinema, the circle is an area of seats on the upper floor.

10. see also: Arctic Circle;dress circle;inner circle;vicious circle;virtuous circle

11. 兜了一圈回到原地;循环
If you say that you have come full circle or have turned full circle, you mean that after a long series of events or changes the same situation that you started with still exists.

12. 在原地兜圈子;原地踏步;毫无进展
If you say that someone is going round in circles or around in circles, you mean that they are not achieving anything because they keep coming back to the same point or problem.

1. movement once around a course

e.g. he drove an extra lap just for insurance

Synonym: lapcircuit

2. any circular or rotating mechanism

e.g. the machine punched out metal circles

Synonym: round

3. a curved section or tier of seats in a hall or theater or opera house
usually the first tier above the orchestra

e.g. they had excellent seats in the dress circle

Synonym: dress circle

4. street names for flunitrazepan

Synonym: R-2Mexican valiumrophyroperoofyroachforget me drug

5. a road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island

e.g. the accident blocked all traffic at the rotary

Synonym: traffic circlerotaryroundabout

6. an unofficial association of people or groups

e.g. the smart set goes there
they were an angry lot

Synonym: setbandlot

7. ellipse in which the two axes are of equal length
a plane curve generated by one point moving at a constant distance from a fixed point

e.g. he calculated the circumference of the circle

8. something approximating the shape of a circle

e.g. the chairs were arranged in a circle