around的意思|around的解释-里氏词典

around [ә'raund]

prep. 包围, 在...周围, 四处

ad. 兜着圈子, 在附近, 到处

[经] 到处; 大约在

My sister is around your age.
我妹妹和你年龄相仿。
He looked around but could see nobody.
他四处望了一下，看不到什么人。
I will visit you around Christmas.
我将在圣诞节前后去拜访你。

around

[ adv ]

in the area or vicinity

<adv.all>

a few spectators standing about

hanging around

waited around for the next flight

by a circular or circuitous route

<adv.all>

He came all the way around the base

the road goes around the pond

used of movement to or among many different places or in no particular direction

<adv.all>

wandering about with no place to go

people were rushing about

news gets around (or about)

traveled around in Asia

he needs advice from someone who's been around

she sleeps around

in a circle or circular motion

<adv.all>

The wheels are spinning around

(of quantities) imprecise but fairly close to correct

<adv.all>

lasted approximately an hour

in just about a minute

he's about 30 years old

I've had about all I can stand

we meet about once a month

some forty people came

weighs around a hundred pounds

roughly $3,000

holds 3 gallons, more or less

20 or so people were at the party

in or to a reversed position or direction

<adv.all>

about face

suddenly she turned around

to a particular destination either specified or understood

<adv.all>

she came around to see me

I invited them around for supper

all around or on all sides

<adv.all>

dirty clothes lying around (or about)

let's look about for help

There were trees growing all around

she looked around her

in circumference

<adv.all>

the trunk is ten feet around

the pond is two miles around

from beginning to end; throughout

<adv.all>

It rains all year round on Skye

frigid weather the year around

Around \A*round"\, prep.
1. On all sides of; encircling; encompassing; so as to make
the circuit of; about.

A lambent flame arose, which gently spread
Around his brows. --Dryden.

2. From one part to another of; at random through; about; on
another side of; as, to travel around the country; a house
standing around the corner. [Colloq. U. S.]

Around \A*round"\, adv. [Pref. a- + round.]
1. In a circle; circularly; on every side; round.

2. In a circuit; here and there within the surrounding space;
all about; as, to travel around from town to town.

3. Near; in the neighborhood; as, this man was standing
around when the fight took place. [Colloq. U. S.]

Note: See {Round}, the shorter form, adv. & prep., which, in
some of the meanings, is more commonly used.

But last year, Spanish sparkling wine sales in the U.S. sank 10%, to around 17 million bottles, according to agency data.
Opponents argued that evacuation plans for the population around Seabrook are inadequate.
Nearly 70 per cent did not know the rate charged on their card, and only 15 per cent guessed in the correct range of 22-25 per cent. The survey found that around 37 per cent of card holders do not pay off their balance in full each month.
The quake, registering 2.5 on the Richter scale of ground motion, hit the area around the Western Deep Levels East mine late Wednesday, the Anglo American Corp. said.
There are no designated shipping lanes along the reef around the Florida Keys, Jackson said.
"When you were above some of the holes, you just breathed on the ball and hoped it would stop around the cup."
Such suggestions have been around for years.
Sources said Mr. Spoor wasn't enthusiastic initially, but came around to favoring Mr. Smith as the list shrank.
Traders agreed much of the activity centered around the Japanese yen.
But Ms. Tutwiler said Libya is "still trying to acquire chemical weapons capability and is engaged in destabilizing efforts around the world.
"We're running a tightrope between an attempt to keep things normal and secure," Superintendent Donald Monroe said. "We shouldn't tell schools across America to lock their doors to the neighborhoods around them," Monroe said.
He was never around." She said her daughters told her in 1987 their uncle had sexually abused them on a visit to their father's.
Why should founding an electronics company be harder the second time around?
"I want to drop as much money into that mall as possible." Marketers around the country, in fact, are beginning to capitalize on a renewed cultural pride among blacks.
Citing security precautions, Defense Department officials have gone to great lengths to conceal the exact location of the approximately 230,000 U.S. troops stationed in and around Saudi Arabia.
Medicins Sans Frontieres, which means "doctors without borders," has sent medical personnel to crisis areas around the world.
"We're all walking around with loaded weapons right now and if the need comes to use them we won't hesitate," said Sgt. Richard Hall, 27, of Jacksonville, N.C.
The new consensus revolves around the recognition that something must be done about long-term welfare dependency.
"Now that it's started, at least the anxiety of waiting is over." Congressional leaders in both houses were notified by the president in a series of phone calls placed around 5:20 to 5:30 p.m. EST.
Hormel's per-share earnings have been about flat at around $1 a share for the past three years, with meat-processing losses imposing an annual drag of 25 cents to 50 cents a share.
But it would leave enough goodies to go around that hardly anyone need be entirely dissatisfied.
The group announced agreements with the state and private developers to conserve land around the pond where Thoreau built an cabin and lived for two years, and also promoted an effort to create affordable housing in nearby Concord.
To top it off, the Central Asian republic of Kazakhstan yesterday may have become the first fragment of the Soviet Union to throw around its nuclear weight.
"I'm afraid this is going to attract every little thief within 100 miles around here when they realize we don't have a police department," Seals said.
Retailers have a recurring nightmare that seasonal shoppers will shy away from stores for fear of having to meet big bills later on. It almost never comes to pass; people get sentimental around the holidays and tend to over-spend.
At the Repair Shipyard, 200 workers who rallied Wednesday morning ended their strike at around 1 p.m., one hour after management said they must leave or be fired, said Krzysztof Kamolak, one of the strike committee members.
WITH CHRISTMAS just around the corner, marketers are fretting about how big a toll the stock market crash will take on consumer spending.
He was appointed chairman of the Texas Department of Human Services in 1987 and the agency's financial difficulties hang like an albatross around his neck.
I know everybody else does around here, but I don't.
He returned during a week in which scores of blacks died in the chronic factional fighting involving ANC supporters and rivals that has wracked black townships around Johannesburg for months.

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