circle
美 [ˈsɜrk(ə)l] 
英 [ˈsɜː(r)k(ə)l]
- n.圆；圈；圆形；圆圈
- v.圈出；环行；围绕…画圈；圈起
- 网络圈子；圆周；环绕
词形变化
复数：circles 现在分词：circling 过去式：circled 同义词
英汉双解
1. | 圆；圆形a completely round flat shape |
| Cut out two circles of paper. 剪出两个圆形纸片。 |
2. | 圆周；圆圈the line that forms the edge of a circle |
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| She walked the horse round in a circle . 她牵着马遛圈子。 |
3. | 圆形物；环状物；圈；环a thing or a group of people or things shaped like a circle |
| a circle of trees/chairs 一圈树╱椅子 |
| The children stood in a circle. 孩子们站成一圈。 |
4. | （剧院或电影院的）弧形楼座an upper floor of a theatre or cinema/movie theater where the seats are arranged in curved rows |
| We had seats in the circle. 我们坐的是楼座座位。 |
5. | （相同兴趣、职业等的人形成的）圈子，阶层，界a group of people who are connected because they have the same interests, jobs, etc. |
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| She's well known in theatrical circles. 她在戏剧界赫赫有名。 |
| a large circle of friends 一大群朋友 |
1. | [i][t] （尤指在空中）盘旋，环行，转圈to move in a circle, especially in the air |
| Seagulls circled around above his head. 海鸥在他的头顶上盘旋。 |
| The plane circled the airport to burn up excess fuel. 飞机在机场上空盘旋以耗掉多余的燃料。 |
2. | [t] ~ sth 围绕…画圈；圈出；圈起to draw a circle around sth |
| Spelling mistakes are circled in red ink. 拼写错误都用红笔圈了出来。 |
习惯用语
come, turn, etc. full circle
（事情或经历）兜了一圈回到原处to return to the situation in which you started, after a series of events or experiences
go round in circles
在原地绕圈子；总是回到同一个问题to work hard at sth or discuss sth without making any progress
run round in circles
徒劳无功；瞎忙；空忙to be busy doing sth without achieving anything important or making progress
circle the wagons
（联合理念相同者）结成统一战线to join together with people who have the same ideas and beliefs as you, and avoid contact with those who do not, who may threaten or attack you
| When your way of life is threatened you have to circle the wagons and defend yourself. 当你的生活方式受到威胁时，你必须与他人结盟保护自己。 |
英汉解释
n. | 1. 周期,循环;(天体运行的)轨道;(体操的)环转运动;【逻】循环论法;(科学等的)完整体系,整体 2. 党派,圈子,集团,...界,(活动,势力,思想等的)范围 4. 圆形场地,马戏场;(铁路的)环行交叉口;(体育场的)圆形看台;(剧场的)楼厅 |
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英英解释
例句
Two of the children wee engaged in a ding-dong battle in the bicycle shed, surrounded by a circle of gaping class mates.
两个学生在自行车车棚里打了起来，周围围着一圈同班同学，吃惊地看着。
Well, most likely, when you are moving on a circle, you are going to use the angle along the circle to tell you where you are.
当你在圆上移动的时候，最方便的就是通过角度来确定你在圆上的位置了。
At home, within and around her mother's cottage, Pearl wanted not a wide and various circle of acquaintance.
珠儿在家中，并不想在母亲茅屋的里里外外结识很多各种各样的伙伴。
The Court, from that exclusive inner circle to its outermost rotten ring of intrigue, corruption, and dissimulation , was all gone together.
宫廷，从排他性的核心到最外层的阴险、贪婪、骄奢淫逸的腐朽圈子，也全都消失了。
They were also anxious to use chemical fertilizers to make up for soil deterioration -- which in turn created a vicious circle, he said.
他说，农民同时急于使用化肥，以弥补土壤的退化，而这就造成了恶性循环。
If you do not hold on tightly to one of the painted horses, you will be flung in a straight line tangent to the merry-go-round' s circle.
假如没紧抱其中一匹木马，你必定顺著旋转木马圆盘的切线方向被直直地甩出去。
He discovered that the more sides a polygon had the closer its circumference was to that of a circle.
他发现，更多的多边形双方已接近其周长是到一个圆圈。
And after all what was a year, if the Earth did not circle the Sun?
到底如何才算一年，如果地球没有绕太阳转的话？
Film Critics Circle chairman Andrew Johnston, of Radar Magazine, said there had been a slew of close contests.
纽约电影协会主席，雷达杂志主编安德鲁觉得在一些评选确实会有重复的地方。
You might feel disconnected from your social circle today, which may be due to your desire to be alone.
今天也许因为希望独处，你会感到和自己的朋友和家人断了联系。
The affair has put a spotlight on Mr Cameron's circle of friends and his judgement, but so far calls for his resignation are not widespread.
此次窃听丑闻曝光了卡梅伦的朋友圈和他的判断能力。但到目前为止，要求他辞职的呼声并不普遍。
It should be the realistic way for Can Xue to become more mature to face up to the present literature circle with a more generous attitude.
走出自我并以更加宽容的心态来直面当下文坛，这应该是残雪批评走向更加成熟的现实起点。
"At this point, an urchin threw a stone into the water. A circle of ripples wafted over. The old man said, " the wind rises.
一顽童向水中礽一块石头，一阵波纹飘荡古来，老翁说：“起风了。”
the bath towel folded behind the knee, his hands to " relieve the fist" to draw a circle along the knee bone contour massage method.
将浴巾折叠放在膝盖后方，双手握成“舒解拳”以画圆方法沿著膝盖骨的轮廓按摩。
Uniform motion in a circle was at once changing and yet changeless, since it endlessly repeated itself.
始终如一的圆周运动既在变化又没有变化，因为它只是在不断地重复自己。
With luck, this will produce a virtuous circle in which an improving economy strengthens the banks, which then become more willing to lend.
幸运的话，这将产生一个良性循环，经济的改善加强的银行们，而他们更愿意发放贷款。
this article has simply introduced a number of nature of regular polygon circumscribed circle by means of the Ptolemy's theorems.
文章利用托勒密定理简洁地导出了正多边形外接圆的若干性质。
When you see a circle around the green handle, drag until the object is at the angle that you want.
当您看到绿色控点周围出现圆圈时，拖动它直到对象处于您所希望的角度。
Star Dasha Shing Fui-leave son, left this world . . . this kind of news seems to have become commonplace in the entertainment circle.
明星大傻成奎安留下幼子，离开了这个世界……这样的新闻在娱乐圈似乎早已司空见惯。
Since a timeline is not to be revealed this crop circle does not indicate a timeline no matter how much it might be scrutinized.
由于时间点是不能被泄露的，这个麦田圈也没有指明时间，无论对它看得多么仔细也（看不出时间点）。
And now she felt outside that magic circle, sure that there could be another sort of life.
然而现在，她感到自己在那个迷人的圈子之外了，肯定地知道还可以有另外一种生活。
When he stood in the center of the circle, he was so disguised in these new colours that, at first, the hunter did not recognize him.
当他站到场子中间的时候，由于他脸上画着这种新花纹，面目全非，打猎将乍一看都认不出他来了。
The cot bed, on which the "dress circle" was built, suddenly shut up and extinguished the enthusiastic audience.
那个在上面搭有“包厢”的帆布床突然合拢，使热情奔放的观众都陷入了沉默。
Up in the cottage called the Lea, four men with nothing to wait for closed the circle of their lives.
在那座叫“草原”的小别墅里，四个没有什么指望的男人，结束了他们的人生旅程。
An opportunity exists to break into the circle and to begin lifting the country out of poverty.
打破恶性循环开始把国家从贫困中拯救出来的机会是存在的。
Many new stars are spewing out of the singing circle.
歌坛又涌现出了一批新人。
She moved in the exciting intellectual circle of the German left of the 1920s.
她在二十年代德国左翼处于激奋状态的知识分子圈内活动。
This is the sum of a good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.
这是一个良好政府的标志，而这也是为我们幸福圆满之所必需的。
Given the two points, one can construct the points of intersection of the line and the circle.
给定了两点就可以画出这直线和圆的交点。
Let us draw the circle with center at O and radius equal to a.
我们以点O为圆心，以a为半径，作圆。
Mark the wrong word with a circle.
把那个错字圈了。
Yet how could the Habsburgs escape from this vicious circle?
那么，哈布斯堡如何才能逃脱这种恶性循环呢？
When she was 75 years old, Ting Ling reentered to literary circle.
丁玲七十五岁时重返文坛。
Recently, the bank has been seeking to enter the inner circle of the derivatives market, but so far, it has been rebuffed.
最近，该银行一直试图进入衍生产品市场的内部圈子，但是至今仍被拒绝。
The process might be easier to understand with a demonstration , so imagine these kids in the circle are Napster users.
我们做个示范，大家会更容易明白，想像围圈的儿童是Napster的用户，
Plus you'd save fuel on shipping, so if you think about it a melted Arctic circle is almost "green" .
而且你将会在航运上省下一笔费用，如果你这样想的话，一个融化了的北极地区简直就是“环保”的。
We hope you are able to travel to far-north places like the Arctic Circle and see the Northern Lights at least once during your lifetime.
希望你在有生之年至少去极北面像北极圈等地区旅游一次，看看北极光。
Grab a copy of the ad from our site and print it out, circle what you want and keep it on your side at all times.
从网站上复制一份广告并将之打印下来，圈住你想买的产品，并随时带在身上。
They come upon a clump or something, and they sort of circle it to see whether it's more digesting.
他们碰到一个土块或是什么东西，就会，把它围起来看看这东西是不是更容易消化。
It's like an RSS feed that keeps you constantly updated on the deviant shit your social circle is up to.
它就像RSS订阅一样能让你始终能跟上发生在你社交圈子里的那些八卦新闻。
Asteroids are minor planets, most of which circle the sun in a region known as the asteroid belt, between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
小行星是较小的行星，它们中的大部分在火星和木星轨道间的小行星带中环绕太阳运行。
Deep autumn the dam dam before down, the sky is a circle month, the front is a few trees, and a group of men are praying.
深秋凌晨的堤坝，天上是一轮圆月，前面是几棵树，一群男人正在祈祷。
A video, da Silva and two other lovers has parachuted out of the cabin, three hand then pull up in the air, a circle.
一段视频中，达席尔瓦与另外两名跳伞爱好者先后跳出机舱，三人随即在空中拉起手、围成圈。
Recently, the UFO seems to visit earth more frequently. The latest report said that in the sky of the Britain, there is an odd light circle.
近日，神秘的“外星人”似乎频频造访地球，才有报道称英国天空惊现神秘光圈，上海夜空中也于2011年8月23日被拍到有神秘不明飞行物出现。
A circle of ripples wafted over. The old man said, "The wind rises. "
一顽童向水中扔一块石头，一阵波纹飘荡过来，老翁曰：“起风了。”
They must draw around themselves a circle that encloses many, many more. Your father was one of those men.
他们必须围绕自己画一个能围住更多更多的圈，你父亲就是其中之一。
The great-circle distance calculates the shortest distance between any two points on the surface of a sphere.
大圆弧长计算球面两点之间的最短距离。
they had to be or he would cut them out of his hallowed investment circle and month-after-month returns of metronomic regularity.
否则麦道夫就会切断此人同投资循环的关联，并失去月复一月的收益。
Buck described a complete circle in the air, and half of another, then crashed to the ground on his head and chest.
巴克在空中划了一个圈儿，又转了半圈后，便头胸着地跌落在地。
s a circle. How much is the shirt?
这件男衬衣多少钱？
He stepped back, and began to circle, casually, as if he were trying to get a better view of a statue in a museum.
他退回去，开始警惕地围着我绕圈，就好像他是在试图给博物馆的一尊雕像取一个更好的镜头一样。
The effect of the land enclosure was to leave the poor peasants in a vicious circle of poverty.
圈地的后果是将贫穷农民陷入贫困的恶性循环。
Who will be the other side of the ship collision out on the winning circle, the competition has adopted three winner of two Pattern system.
谁先将对方的船碰出圈就获胜，比赛采取三盘两胜制。
