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    wheel 的英语意思

    wheelwheel1 /wiːl/ noun [countable] 查看全部语言翻译1on a vehicle one of the round things under a car, bus, bicycle etc that turns when it moves(汽车、公共汽车、自行车等行驶时)在下方转动的圆形物;车轮front/rear/back wheels The car slid sideways, its rear wheels spinning.汽车横向打滑,后轮不停空转。 four-wheel drive2for controlling a vehicle [usually singular] the round piece of equipment that you turn to make a car, ship etc move in a particular direction用于控制汽车、轮船等行进方向的圆形装置;方向盘;舵轮at/behind the wheel (=driving a car)(=驾车) The driver must have fallen asleep at the wheel.司机开车时一定是睡着了。 Shall I take the wheel (=drive instead of someone else)?要我来开车吗(=代替别人驾车)? steering wheel3in a machine a flat round part in a machine that turns round when the machine operates机器运转时旋转的扁平圆形部件:  a gear wheel齿轮4the wheels of something the way in which a complicated organization, system etc works复杂的组织、体系等的运作机制:  We hope that the next government will do more to keep the wheels of industry turning (=help it to work smoothly and easily).我们希望下届政府能采取更多措施,让工业机器持续运转(=帮助其顺畅轻松地运作)。oil/grease the wheels (of something) (=help something to work more smoothly and easily)(=帮助某事运作得更顺畅、更轻松) The money people spend at Christmas oils the wheels of the economy.人们在圣诞节的消费为经济运转注入了润滑剂。5the wheel of fortune/life/time etc the way in which things change in life, or in which the same things seem to happen again after a period of time生活中事物变迁的规律,或事物似乎在一段时间后循环重现的方式:  We are powerless to stop the wheel of history.我们无力阻止历史的车轮滚滚向前。6(set of) wheels spoken口语 a car汽车:  Do you like my new wheels?你喜欢我的新车吗?7wheels within wheels spoken口语 used to say that a situation is complicated and difficult to understand because it involves processes and decisions that you know nothing about用于表示某情况错综复杂、令人难以理解,因为其中涉及外界一无所知的运作过程和决策8set the wheels in motion/set the wheels turning to make a particular process start使某一过程启动;开始推动某事:  It only took one phone call to set the wheels in motion.只需一个电话,一切就运转起来了。9the wheels come off something used to say that something suddenly stops being successful用于表示某事突然停止顺利进行;事情突然出岔子:  Why did the wheels come off his campaign?他的竞选活动为何突然陷入困境?10a/the big wheel informal非正式 an important person重要人物:  He became a big wheel in the East India Company.他成了东印度公司举足轻重的人物。 put your shoulder to the wheel at shoulder1(8), → put a spoke in somebody’s wheel at spoke2(2), → reinvent the wheel at reinvent(3)COLLOCATIONS词语搭配adjectives形容词the front wheel· Turn your front wheels in the direction of the skid.· 将前轮转向打滑的方向。the back/rear wheel· The rear wheels of the bus got stuck in a creek.· 公共汽车的后轮陷入了一条小溪中。verbs动词a wheel turns/goes around· The wheels went slowly around.· 车轮缓缓转动。a wheel spins (=turns around quickly, when the vehicle is not going along)· The rear wheels spun in the sand.· 后轮在沙地上空转。phrases短语the spokes of a wheel (=the thin metal bars that connect the outer ring of a wheel to the centre, especially on a bicycle wheel)
    wheelwheel2 verb 1[transitive always + adverb/preposition] a)to push something that has wheels somewhere将有轮子的东西推到某处:  Kate wheeled her bike into the garage.凯特把自行车推进了车库。 b)to move someone or something that is in or on something that has wheels推动或移动坐/载于带轮子的装置上的人或物:  Two nurses were wheeling him into the operating theatre.两名护士正推着他进入手术室。 see thesaurus at push2[intransitive] if birds or planes wheel, they fly around in circles(鸟或飞机)在空中盘旋飞行3[intransitive] to turn around suddenly突然转身;猛地转向wheel around She wheeled around and started yelling at us.她猛地转过身来,开始冲我们大喊大叫。4wheel and deal to do a lot of complicated and sometimes dishonest deals, especially in politics or business大量从事复杂且有时不诚实的交易,尤指在政治或商业领域;耍手腕;进行幕后运作wheel somebody/something ↔ in/out phrasal verb informal非正式 to publicly produce someone or something and use them to help you achieve something公开推出某人或某物,并利用其帮助自己实现目标:  Then the prosecution wheeled in a surprise witness.随后,检方推出了一名出人意料的证人。 The government wheeled out the same old arguments to support its election campaign.政府又搬出了那套陈旧的论据来为其竞选活动背书。