| 单词 | turn |
| 例句 | turn verb 1.•the wheels were still turning:go around, revolve, rotate, spin, roll, circle, wheel, whirl, twirl, gyrate, swivel, pivot. 2.•I turned and headed back:change direction, change course, make a U-turn, about-face, turn around/about | informal pull a U-ey, do a one-eighty. 3.•the car turned the corner:go around, round, negotiate, take. 4.•the path turned to right and left:bend, curve, wind, veer, twist, meander, snake, zigzag. 5.•he turned his gun on Lenny:aim at, point at, level at, direct at, train on. 6.•he turned his ankle:sprain, twist, wrench | hurt. 7.•their honeymoon turned into a nightmare:become, develop into, turn out to be | be transformed into, metamorphose into, descend into, grow into. 8.•Emma turned red:become, go, grow, get. 9.•he turned the house into apartments:convert, change, transform, make | adapt, modify, rebuild, reconstruct. 10.•I've just turned forty:reach, get to, become, hit. 11.•she turned to politics:take up, become involved in, go into, enter, undertake. 12.•we can now turn to another topic:move on to, go on to, proceed to, consider, attend to, address | take up, switch to.▶noun 1.•a turn of the wheel:rotation, revolution, spin, whirl, gyration, swivel. 2.•a turn to the left:change of direction, veer, divergence. 3.•we're approaching the turn:bend, corner, turning, turnoff, junction, crossroads. 4.•you'll get your turn in a minute:opportunity, chance, say | stint, time | try | informal go, shot, stab, crack. 5.•she did me some good turns:service, deed, act | favor, kindness. PHRASES at every turn •her name seemed to come up at every turn:repeatedly, recurrently, all the time, always, constantly, again and again. in turn •let's consider these three points in turn:one after the other, one by one, one at a time, in succession, successively, sequentially. take a turn for the better •his luck took a turn for the better:improve, pick up, look up, perk up, rally, turn the corner | recover, revive. take a turn for the worse •even the doctors were surprised when Richie took a turn for the worse:deteriorate, worsen, decline | informal go downhill. turn against •after his father died, Bruce turned against his stepmother:become hostile to, take a dislike to, betray, double-cross. turn away •I know you're hurt, but please don't turn us away:send away, reject, rebuff, repel, cold-shoulder | informal send packing. turn back •just before boarding the ferry, Clint changed his mind and turned back:retrace one's steps, go back, return | retreat. turn down 1.•his novel was turned down:reject, refuse, decline, spurn, rebuff. 2.•Pete turned the volume down:reduce, lower, decrease, lessen | muffle, mute. turn in 1.•he turned in his brother to the police:betray, inform on, denounce, sell out, stab someone in the back | blow the whistle on, rat on, squeal on, finger. 2.•we turned in the entrance forms just in time:hand in/over/back, give in, submit, surrender, give up | deliver, return. 3.•I usually turn in before 10 o'clock:go to bed, retire, go to sleep, call it a day | informal hit the hay, hit the sack. turn of events •she was unprepared for this turn of events:development, incident, occurrence, happening, circumstance, surprise. turn of phrase •a clever turn of phrase:expression, idiom, phrase, term, word, aphorism. turn off 1.•his so-called jokes really turn me off:put off, leave cold, repel, disgust, revolt, offend | disenchant, alienate | bore, gross out. 2.•please turn off the garage lights:switch off, shut off, turn out | extinguish | deactivate | informal kill, cut, power down. turn on 1.•the decision turned on the law:depend on, rest on, hinge on, be contingent on, be decided by. 2.•okay, I admit it—his green eyes turn me on. See turn on to •Christie has turned me on to the health benefits of yoga:introduce someone to, get someone into, pique someone's interest in. turn out 1.•a huge crowd turned out:come, be present, attend, appear, turn up, arrive | assemble, gather, show up. 2.•it turned out that she had been abroad:transpire, emerge, come to light, become apparent, become clear. 3.•things didn't turn out as I'd intended:happen, occur, come about | develop, proceed | work out, come out, end up, pan out, result | formal eventuate. 4.•it's about time she turned out that bum of a boyfriend:throw out, eject, evict, expel, oust, drum out, banish | informal kick out, send packing, boot out, show someone the door. 5.•turn out the light:switch off, shut off, turn off. 6.•they turn out a million engines a year:produce, make, manufacture, fabricate, generate, put out, churn out. turn over 1.•the crate fell off the back of the truck and turned over:overturn, upturn, capsize, keel over, flip, turn turtle, be upended, tip. 2.•I turned over a few pages:flip over, flick through, leaf through. 3.•she turned the proposal over in her mind:think about, think over, consider, ponder, contemplate, reflect on, chew over, mull over, muse on, ruminate on. 4.•he turned over the business to his brother:transfer, hand over, pass on, consign, commit. turn someone's stomach •the sight of blood turns my stomach:nauseate someone, sicken someone, make someone sick. turn to •I always had my grandparents to turn to:seek help from, have recourse to, approach, apply to, appeal to | take to, resort to. turn up 1.•the missing documents turned up:be found, be discovered, be located, reappear. 2.•the police turned up:arrive, appear, present oneself, show up, show, show one's face. 3.•something better will turn up:present itself, offer itself, occur, happen, crop up, appear. 4.•she turned up the treble:increase, raise, amplify, intensify. 5.•they turned up lots of information:discover, uncover, unearth, find, dig up, ferret out, root out, expose. |
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