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美 [əˈraʊnd] 
英 [ə'raʊnd]
- adv.周围；围绕；大约；到处
- prep.围绕；到处；环绕；绕着
- 网络在周围；在附近；四周
同义词
英汉双解
| He arrived around five o'clock. 他大约是五点钟到的。 |
| The cost would be somewhere around £1 500. 费用要在 1 500 英镑上下。 |
2. | 周围；四周on every side; surrounding sb/sth |
| I could hear laughter all around. 我可以听见周围的笑声。 |
| a yard with a fence all around 四周围着栅栏的院子 |
| How do you make the wheels go around? 你怎样使这些轮子转动起来？ |
4. | 以圆周计算measured in a circle |
| an old tree that was at least ten feet around 合抱至少十英尺的古树 |
5. | 到处；向各处in or to many places |
| We were all running around trying to get ready in time. 我们东奔西跑，望能按时准备就绪。 |
| This is our new office─Kay will show you around. 这是我们的新办公室，凯会带你参观一下。 |
| There were papers lying around all over the floor. 地板上四处散乱着文件。 |
6. | 闲散地；无目的地used to describe activities that have no real purpose |
| There were several young people sitting around looking bored. 有几个年轻人闲坐着，一副无聊的样子。 |
7. | 出现；现有；可用present in a place; available |
| There was more money around in those days. 那年头比现在富裕。 |
| I knocked but there was no one around. 我敲了门，但是没有人应门。 |
| Digital television has been around for some time now. 数字电视已经面市一段时间了。 |
8. | （体育运动、专业等中）走红的，活跃的active and well known in a sport, profession, etc. |
| a new tennis champion who could be around for a long time 可能会走红很长时期的新网球冠军 |
| She's been around as a film director since the 1980s. 自 20 世纪 80 年代以来她一直是活跃在影坛的著名导演。 |
9. | 转弯；掉转；掉头in a circle or curve to face another way or the opposite way |
| She turned the car around and drove off. 她把轿车掉头开走了。 |
| They looked around when he called. 他呼喊时他们回头张望。 |
1. | 围绕；环绕surrounding sb/sth; on each side of sth |
| The house is built around a central courtyard. 这房子是围绕着中央的庭院而建的。 |
| He put his arms around her. 他搂着她。 |
2. | 在那边；到那边；从那边on, to or from the other side of sb/sth |
| Our house is just around the corner. 过了拐角就是我们的房子。 |
| The bus came around the bend. 公共汽车从拐弯处驶来。 |
| There must be a way around the problem. 肯定有解决这个问题的办法。 |
| They walked around the lake. 他们绕着湖边行走。 |
4. | 到处；向各处in or to many places in an area |
| They walked around the town looking for a place to eat. 他们在城里到处寻找吃饭的地方。 |
5. | 同…一致；适合；符合to fit in with particular people, ideas, etc. |
| I can't arrange everything around your timetable! 我不可能事事都按着你的时刻表安排！ |
习惯用语
have been around
阅历世事；饱经世故to have gained knowledge and experience of the world
英汉解释
英英解释
例句
In fact up to the end of chapter nine, Mark recounts mostly stories which took place around the Sea of Galilee and the surrounding areas.
事实上，由这里一直到第九章尾，马可记述的耶稣大部份事迹，主要发生在加利利海和它的周边地区。
A cylinder of wire mesh, foam rubber, or other material around which a strand of hair is wound to produce a soft curl or wave.
卷发筒：由金属丝网、泡沫橡胶或其它材料做成的一种周围可卷绕一缕头发做成柔软的卷曲或波浪发型的圆筒。
I've met some of my good friends by simply walking around in their neighborhood and having to ask for directions.
我曾在附近只是走来走去，或问路的时候碰到了一些好朋友。
Around one- third of those surveyed found the public at fault for paying attention and 12% said the public and the media both are to blame .
大约有三分之一的受访者发现，公众在故障注意，12%的人表示，市民和媒体都难辞其咎。
I am trying to argue that guy born around 80's went through a great change of his value to the world around him.
我在讨论生于80年代初的一代人如何应对周遭剧烈变化的价值观。
She ruffled feathers around the company but was eager to let me in on what she thought and why .
她在公司很优秀，但是会急于想让我加入她，让我知道她是怎么想的，为什么。
He looked around for the bird now because he would have liked him for company. The bird was gone.
他掉头寻找那只小鸟，因为很乐意有它来作伴。鸟儿飞走了。
And her husband as soon as he finds that she's been stolen away, he starts traveling all around the Mediterranean looking for her.
她丈夫一发现她被偷走，就开始在地中海四处寻找。
Suddenly, I suddenly looked up and the sky is an orange lamp of updating, around the moon next, slowly drifting into the other side.
忽然，我猛地一抬头，满天都是一盏盏橙色的孔明灯，围绕在月亮旁，慢慢地飘向另一边。
Forty years ago they turned against a leftish elite trying to boss them around; now they have had to endure a right-wing version.
四十年前，一位左翼领袖想对他们指手画脚，结果他们就站起来反对；现在他们不得不忍受右翼来指手画脚。
The walkways that wind around the aquarium's various fish tanks are decorated to look like a stroll through a rainforest.
蜿蜒在水族馆各类鱼缸旁边走道的设计令人有种漫步雨林的感觉。
It has been a necessary trip around the business world for us to investigate this example of corruption.
集中探讨已经成为我们研究腐败案例通往经济领域的必经之路。
Since then, the accusations and the question of justice have been a preoccupation across Ireland and among Irish emigrants around the world.
自此，对司法的指责和怀疑就成了全爱尔兰以及全世界的爱尔兰移民的焦点。
Like scholars of jurisprudence lost in a state of nature, corporate-governance gurus are scraping around, trying to formulate new rules.
正如法学学者在原始状态下就迷失了一样，公司管理的头头们也急得抓耳挠腮，尝试去指定新的规则。
Don't take this as a bad thing, instead enjoy the company of the people around you and refrain from pushing intimacy.
或许，你可以多留意周围公司里的同事，但不要在短期内有亲密举动。
As the name would suggest, these are parts whose substance are oriented around the concept of a service.
顾名思义，这些部件的本质是面向服务的概念。
A child was not a "piece of property which can be parcelled up and moved around at will" , he said.
孩子不是“随意打包与到处移动的一份财产”，他说。
"It seems to be a pretty powerful opportunity for people around the world to connect with language partners, " he said.
它给世界各地的人与语言学习伙伴联系提供了很大的机会。
I just give everyone around me a chance to understand what I'm going through.
我只是给身边的人有机会了解我怎麽了。
That we might have a financial situation where a possible default of Greece might have knock-on effects around the world as well.
希腊可能对其债务违约，这种财政状况也可能在全球产生连锁反应。
I was thinking about Brett and my mind stopped jumping around and started to go in sort of smooth waves.
我思念着勃莱特，我的思路不再零乱，开始好象顺着柔滑的水波前进了。
Once on one of his rare visits to my office, he glanced around at my various scrapbooks and files.
他难得来我的办公室一趟，有一次来时，四处看一看我的剪贴本和档案。
The night watchman walked around the building to make sure that every door and window had been locked.
守夜人巡视了大楼，以确保所有的门窗都上锁了。
We could attempt to get around this difficulty by initially assigning the arbitrary value to another of the unknowns rather than to Xn.
开头对另一个而不是Xn的未知数指定为任意常数，能试图避免这个困难。
She was ferreting around in a drawer for her keys.
她在抽屉里翻找钥匙。
We came around a curve into a town, and on both sides opened out a sudden green valley.
我们顺着一条弯道，驶进一个小镇，两侧陡的展开一片开阔的绿色山谷。
He never jarred with what was immediately around him.
他从来不跟身边的一切发生冲突。
One of the persons around Eleanor who helped shape her life and activities in the White House was a black educator.
接近埃莉诺并帮助她安排在白宫的生活和活动的是个黑人教育家。
Colonel Terry walked in with two cups of tea on a tray. "Nobody around here sleeps, " he said cheerfully.
特里上校用托盘端进两杯茶来。“这里没有人睡觉，”他兴奋地说。
He bummed around the world for a year.
他在世界各地漫游了一年。
Heyward rose to his feet, moved his chair well back and calmly surveyed the nineteen other men around the table.
海沃德站起身来，把椅子往身后挪得远一些，神态镇静地向会议桌旁十九名与会者扫了一眼。
She was very beautiful, a little pale. A half smile played around the corners of her mouth.
她很美丽，面色略有点苍白，嘴角微微的露出笑容。
The Ford Moter Company had close to half a million employees around the world and I had to keep in mind that I was only one of them.
福特汽车公司在全世界的雇员将近50万人，我必须记住我究竟只是其中的一员。
Well, I'm not going to have anybody following me around and trying to boss me.
我却不希望有人到处盯着我，想来管我。
Bloggs had begun to pace up and as he spoke. He stopped now and looked around, "Comments? "
布洛格斯一边说一边来回走动，说到这里，他停住脚步，环视着大家说：“诸位有何高见？”
He was a lonely man and he looked around to fine a girl for his wife.
他是个单身汉，想找一个姑娘作他的妻子。
She wondered if John was still on his knees, or had risen, with a child's impatience, and was staring around the church.
她不知道约翰是不是仍然跪在地上，还是因为小孩没耐性站了起来，在教堂里瞪着眼睛东张西望。
For thousands of years men have been wandering around-for pleasure, for profit, or to satisfy their curiosity.
几千年来，人们为了享乐，挣钱或为了满足好奇心而到处漫游。
He told her that she was the apple of his eye, that she was wound around his heartstrings.
他告诉她，她是他的掌上明珠，是他的心头肉。
We were all running around trying to get ready in time.
我们东奔西跑，望能按时准备就绪。
The earth revolves once a year around the sun.
地球一年绕太阳公转一次。
How much joy it was to be together, just the two of us, with no one else around to interfere!
我们两人在一起是多么幸福，只有我们两个人，没有人在周围来打搅我们。
Vacation days eventually become empty and boring, I began to be anxious for September to roll around and for school to begin.
一天天假期最终变得空虚而又令人厌烦，我开始焦急地盼望着9月份的到来和学校开学。
He hitched one end of a rope around the drain pipe and the other one around his waist, then climbed down the building.
他把绳子的一头拴在下水管上，另一头拴在他的腰上，借助绳子爬下了楼。
I saw Cram a few days later skulking around the fifth floor of Leconfield House. He looked a little sheepish.
数日之后，我看到克拉姆在莱肯菲尔德大厦6层楼上躲躲闪闪的，显得有些不好意思。
He had a hearty fit of sneezing, and looked around upon me with a rather silly smile.
他连打了一阵痛痛快快的喷嚏，才转过头来，对着我，堆起一种傻笑。
He looked around for the bird now because he would have liked him for company.
他朝四下里张望那只鸟儿，因为他很盼望它来跟他作伴。
Maggie was curled into a little heap, with her thumb in her mouth and her rag-decorated hair all around her.
麦琪弯得象只小虾，大拇指含在嘴巴里，满头披散着她那用破布条装饰起来的头发。
It was on the tip of my tongue to ask his name when Jordan looked around and smiled.
我正要开口问他的姓名，乔丹转过脸来朝我笑了笑。
She went around to the front of the house, padding happily through the dewy grass with her bare feet.
她走到屋前，拖着两只赤脚在散着露水的草上愉快地走着。
One day during their exercising, Laverne walked around the prison quietly and found a dilapidated wall, which can be climbed.
有一天放风，拉文不露声色地在监狱里走了一圈，发现一处围墙破旧，可以攀登。
Argus was a watchman with a hundred eyes, set in a circle all around his head.
阿刚斯是个有100只眼睛的看守，他能看到头顶上一圈的任何东西。
Just another familiar way of trying to ask: Will I still be around after my death?
就象另一种相似的方式去问：我死后会依旧存在吗？
Since the founding date, the company has been around and around the new and old customers maintained a good cooperative partnership.
自创办至今，公司一直与遍布各地的新、老客户保持着良好的合作伙伴关系。
I only have around 30 products so it should be very quick and easy to set up for somebody who knows what they are doing.
我只有30个左右的产品所以应该很轻松，快捷地为别人了谁知道他们在做什么。
Wang Ping: Around the early 14th century, grounder began to prevail among the common people in Germany.
王平：大约14世纪初德国民间就开始流行地滚球了。
the drug store is only around the corner . such a stupid guy !
药房就在转角而已，真是个大笨蛋！
Tears ran from both of their eyes and she drew her arms around the shoulders of her father.
泪水从他们的眼中流出，她伸出胳膊搂住了父亲的双肩。
He wiped his mouth on his sleeve and bent over like a question mark, his forehead resting on the rail, so we crowded around our friends.
他用袖子擦了擦嘴，像一个问号似的弯下腰，前额靠在栏杆上，我们都围了过去。
How much do you know about table manners around the world?
关于世界各地餐桌礼仪你了解多少？
Half the group was lucky enough to get out of bed for an hour a day to spin around in the NASA Short-Range Human Centrifuge.
其中一半人有幸每天下床，在美国航空航天局（NASA）的短距人体离心机里进行旋转体验。
He said he had always campaigned by going around talking to people and meeting them.
他说他之前就在到处宣传，跟人们交流见面。
Today, I received two letters, one from my mom, other from my dad, about how much they missed me with me not being around them.
今天我收到两封信，我爹一封我娘一封，写的都是我不在他们身边他们有多么想念我。
My intention is to get out into the operations and go down the mines, and hear from the management teams around the world.
我打算亲自去了解业务，下矿井，听取全球各地管理团队的意见。
The human body was made to move around and since we don't do that, we end up with a long list of these 'lifestyle' health problems.
人的身体天生需要活动，因为我们老是不动，最后就会出现一长串的“办公室不良生活方式”导致的健康问题。
If they had not the distraction of TV, they might sit around together and talk to one another.
要是他们没有电视的分心，他们也许会坐在一起互相谈话。
It will change as I change. But that's okay, because you're supposed to be making minimalism fit you and not the other way around.
但是，那应该不成问题的，因为你要做的就是寻找适合自己的简约主义，而不是要模仿他人。
A military alliance that stretches across the Atlantic will not always be able to unify around such a clear cause.
横跨大西洋的军事联盟并不总是在诸如此类的目标上形成统一认识。
I've done this many times before and have never had any problems with any other hotels, in and around the Old Quarter.
在这之前我租过很多次了并且在其他的酒店住的时候我也没有遇到过任何问题，即便是在老城区及附近地区。
I was running around the track at my college and there she was walking around the same track.
我在学校的跑道上绕道跑，她也在同一跑道上绕圈散步。
The singer could feel she was losing her audience and she began to thrash around.
这名歌手能感觉到观众对她的表演正失去兴趣，因此她开始拿不定主意该怎么办。
I knew a window would soon get broken, with all those children monkeying around in the garden.
我知道，有那么多孩子在花园里胡闹，很快就会砸碎窗玻璃的。
The building around the circus are rather nondescript, though some of them are large and quite imposing.
广场四周的建筑群颇为难以形容，虽然其中有些气势雄伟，十分壮观。
The wind was howling around the roof.
大风在屋顶上盘旋怒吼。
The wind eddied around the tower.
风在塔周围回旋。
An extraordinary personality cult had been created around the leader.
在这位领导人的周围兴起了一场异乎寻常的个人崇拜。
He was free after that to spend the rest of each day lying around idly with a clear conscience.
这件事情做完后，她就成天心安理得，无所事事地躺在那儿。
He turned and curled the ball around the goalkeeper.
他转身把球一盘，绕过了守门员。
"Now, almost everywhere, there is a great deal of bunk around, " the man said indignantly.
“如今到处是废话，泛滥成灾，”那个人愤愤不平地说。
There's nothing to do in this town except mooching around the streets; no wonder young people get into trouble.
在这座城市除了逛大街以外没事可干；难怪年轻人要出乱子。
