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Collins English-Chinese Dictionary

wheel [wiːl]
  1. 1. noun [c]
  2. 2. noun (also: steering wheel) 方向盘
  3. 3. noun (on ship) 舵轮
  4. 4. vt.
  5. 5. vi. to wheel around 猛地转过身
    at the wheel
    正在开车

Comprehensive English-Chinese Dictionary

wheel [wiːl]
  1. 1. n.[c] 轮,车轮,机轮
    What you really need is a shed on wheels which you can pull behind you.
    真正需要的是一个能在车后面拉着的带轮的车棚
  2. 2. n.[c] 方向盘,转向盘
    He turned the wheel of the car.
    转动了这辆车的方向盘
  3. 3. n.[c] [Plural] 动力推动力
    This famous and powerful waterfall has provided the energy to drive the wheels of industry.
    这条著名宏伟瀑布已经工业发展提供能源动力
    The wheels of government began to turn.
    政府威力开始显露
  4. 4. n.[c] 舵盘舵轮
    Not even his crew know when he wants to take the wheel.
    他的船员甚至不知道什么时候驾驶
  5. 5. n.[c] 轮盘
    He bet fifty dollars on black and then spun the wheel.
    他在黑色上押注了50美元然后转动轮盘
  6. 6. n.[c] 轮式刑车
    They used the wheel to get the answers from him.
    他们用刑车从他那儿得到答案
  7. 7. n.[c] 自行车脚踏车
    Do you have any wheels tonight?
    今晚骑自行车吗?
  8. 8. n.[c] 轮状物
  9. 9. n.[c] [American English] 掌权的人
    He's a wheel in the state government.
    他是一个国家政府要员
  10. 10. noun 旋转旋转运动
  11. 11. verb (使)旋转
    He wheeled round and ran.
    转圈然后跑开了。
    They wheeled their horses around and left.
    他们拨转马头离开了。
  12. 12. vi. 行驶,驶过
    The police wheeled down the street.。
    警察沿着街道向下行驶而去。
  13. 13. vi. 骑自行车
    I usually wheel to work.
    通常骑自行车上班
  14. 14. vt. 推,拉
    She wheeled the trolley into the kitchen.
    她推着手推车进了厨房
  15. 15. vt. 用车运载
    The watermelon are wheeled in from the country side.
    这些西瓜是从乡村过来的。

Collins English-English Dictionary

wheel [wiːl]
  1. 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
  2. 2. n anything like a wheel in shape or function
  3. 3. n a device consisting of or resembling a wheel or having a wheel as its principal component
    a steering wheel
    a water wheel
  4. 4. n short for wheel of fortune potter's wheel
  5. 5. n the act of turning
  6. 6. n a pivoting movement of troops, ships, etc
  7. 7. n a type of firework coiled to make it rotate when let off
  8. 8. n a set of short rhyming lines, usually four or five in number, forming the concluding part of a stanza - Compare bob
  9. 9. n the disc in which the ball is spun in roulette
  10. 10. n an informal word for bicycle
  11. 11. n [US and Canadian] [Archaic] a refrain
  12. 12. n [Spoken] [chiefly US and Canadian] a person of great influence (esp in the phrase big wheel)
  13. 13. vb [when intr sometimes foll by about or round] to turn or cause to turn on or as if on an axis
  14. 14. vb to move or cause to move on or as if on wheels; roll
  15. 15. vt. [tr] to perform with or in a circular movement
  16. 16. vt. [tr] to provide with a wheel or wheels
  17. 17. vi. [intr; often foll by about] to change one's mind or opinion
  18. 18. vi. See also wheels
  19. 19. vi. [Etymology] Old English hweol, hweowol; related to Old Norse hvel, Greek kuklos, Middle Low German wel, Dutch wiel

Examples

a four-wheel drive
四轮驱动
to pull wheel from a car
从汽车上去掉轮子
to set a wheel on an axle
把轮子装在轴上
an undershot water wheel
下射水轮;下击水车
weights placed on an automobile wheel
装在汽车轮上的平衡锤
to wheel a baby buggy
推婴儿车

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