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- wheel [hwɪl] [wɪːl]
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1.
noun
轮；车轮
- She got her skirt caught in the wheel of her bicycle.
- 她的裙子卷进自行车的轮子里了。
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2.
noun
轮状物（如轮盘焰火）
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3.
noun
以轮为主的装置；以轮为特征的东西；具体指：（中世纪分裂肢体的）刑车
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4.
noun
以轮为主的装置；以轮为特征的东西；具体指：（船的）舵轮
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5.
noun
以轮为主的装置；以轮为特征的东西；具体指：paddle wheel，potter's wheel，spinning wheel，steering wheel等的缩略
- 6. noun 以轮为主的装置；以轮为特征的东西；具体指：（赌博用的）轮盘
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7.
noun
[American English]
[verbal]
以轮为主的装置；以轮为特征的东西；具体指：自行车
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8.
noun
[slang]
[American English]
[复数形态事时]以轮为主的装置；以轮为特征的东西；具体指：汽车
- Do you think you could take the wheel for ten hours without rest to drive the Philadelphia?
- 你觉得你能不休息连续开车10个小时到费城去吗？
- 9. noun [通常为复数形态]原动力；推动力；控制力
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10.
noun
旋转；尤指：（军队或船队队形或舞蹈者们的）旋转运动
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11.
noun
[American English]
政治领袖；政党头子；重要人物；有权势者
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12.
noun
[archaic]
（歌曲的）叠句；副歌
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13.
noun
体育联合团体；（轮流交换演出节目的）联营娱乐
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14.
vt.
推动；滚动；转动
- to wheel a baby buggy
- 推婴儿车
- I saw her last night wheeling her grandmother around the park.
- 我昨晚看见她正在推着她奶奶在公园散步。
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15.
vt.
用车运
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16.
vt.
改变…的方向；使旋转
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17.
vt.
在转圈中表演（动作等）
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18.
vt.
装以车轮
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19.
vi.
旋转
- For hours, she watched the seagulls wheeling in the air.
- 她看着海鸥在天空中盘旋已经看了几个小时了。
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20.
vi.
转弯；改变方向；改变意见（或态度等）（常与about连用）
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21.
vi.
（鸟等）盘旋
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22.
vi.
乘车旅行；顺利进行
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23.
vi.
[slang]
开车
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1.
noun
轮；车轮
Collins English-English Dictionary
- wheel [wiːl]
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1.
n
a solid disc, or a circular rim joined to a hub by radial or tangential spokes, that is mounted on a shaft about which it can turn, as in vehicles and machines
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2.
n
anything like a wheel in shape or function
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3.
n
a device consisting of or resembling a wheel or having a wheel as its principal component
- a steering wheel
- a water wheel
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4.
n
short for wheel of fortune potter's wheel
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5.
n
the act of turning
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6.
n
a pivoting movement of troops, ships, etc
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7.
n
a type of firework coiled to make it rotate when let off
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8.
n
a set of short rhyming lines, usually four or five in number, forming the concluding part of a stanza - Compare bob
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9.
n
the disc in which the ball is spun in roulette
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10.
n
an informal word for bicycle
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11.
n
[US and Canadian]
[archaic]
a refrain
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12.
n
[informal]
[chiefly US and Canadian]
a person of great influence (esp in the phrase big wheel)
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13.
vb
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when intrsometimes foll by aboutor round] to turn or cause to turn on or as if on an axis -
14.
vb
to move or cause to move on or as if on wheels; roll
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15.
vt.
[tr]
to perform with or in a circular movement
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16.
vt.
[tr]
to provide with a wheel or wheels
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17.
vi.
[intr;
often foll by about] to change one's mind or opinion -
18.
vi.
See also wheels
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19.
vi.
[Etymology]
Old English hweol, hweowol; related to Old Norse hv
e l, Greek kuklos, Middle Low German we l, Dutch wiel
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1.
n
a solid disc, or a circular rim joined to a hub by radial or tangential spokes, that is mounted on a shaft about which it can turn, as in vehicles and machines
Examples
- an eccentric wheel
- 偏心轮 → eccentric
- a four-wheel drive
- 四轮驱动 → four-wheel
- a loose wheel
- 松了的轮子 → loose
- to pull wheel from a car
- 从汽车上去掉轮子 → pull
- to set a wheel on an axle
- 把轮子装在轴上 → set
- an undershot water wheel
- 下射水轮；下击水车 → undershot
- a water wheel
- 水车 → water
- weights placed on an automobile wheel
- 装在汽车轮上的平衡锤 → weight
- a roulette wheel
- 轮盘赌具 → wheel
- to wheel a baby buggy
- 推婴儿车 → wheel
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