roundabout

noun
🔊/ˈraʊndəbaʊt/
🔊/ˈraʊndəbaʊt/
(British English)Idioms
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  1. (North American English traffic circle, rotary)
    a place where two or more roads meet, forming a circle that all traffic must go around in the same direction(交通)环岛
    • At the roundabout, take the second exit.到环岛后,走第二个出口。🔊🔊
    • When entering a roundabout, give way to any traffic already on it.进入回旋处时,让其上的所有交通让路。
    • Leave the roundabout at the second exit.在第二个出口处驶离环岛。
    • There was a lot of traffic on the roundabout.环行交叉路上车辆很多。
    see also mini-roundaboutTopics Transport by car or lorryb2
  2. (North American English merry-go-round)
    a round platform for children to play on in a park, etc. that is pushed round while the children are sitting on it(游乐设施)旋转平台
    Topics Games and toysc1
  3. (British English)
    (also merry-go-round British and North American English, carousel especially in North American English)
    a round platform with model horses, cars, etc. that turns around and around and that children ride on at a fairground(游乐设施)旋转平台
Idioms
swings and roundabouts
  1. (British English, informal) used to say that there are advantages and disadvantages whatever decision you make(表示无论如何决定都有利有弊)有得必有失
    • If you earn more, you pay more in tax, so it's all swings and roundabouts.赚的越多,缴的税也越多,所以有得必有失。🔊🔊
    • What you gain on the swings you may lose on the roundabouts.您在秋千上获得的收益可能会在回旋处失去。

roundabout

adjective
🔊/ˈraʊndəbaʊt/
🔊/ˈraʊndəbaʊt/
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  1. not done or said using the shortest, simplest or most direct way possible迂回的;间接的;兜圈子的
    • It was a difficult and roundabout trip.这是一次艰难而曲折的旅行。🔊🔊
    • He told us, in a very roundabout way, that he was thinking of leaving.他拐弯抹角地对我们说他想走了。🔊🔊
    • This is a roundabout way of saying that nothing has been accomplished.这是委婉之词,事情其实一无所成。
    Oxford Collocations DictionaryRoundabout is used with these nouns:
    • fashion
    • route
    • way
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