词组 | turn around |
释义 | turn around 1. turn around/round • turn sb/sth around/round to turn so that you are facing in the opposite direction, or to make something do this: ▪ Simpson turned around in his chair and looked out of the window. ▪ Can you help me turn the sofa round? 2. turn sth around/round • turn around/round sth to make a business, organization, economy etc successful again after it has been unsuccessful: ▪ There are no quick solutions for turning around a sinking economy. ▪ A new management team was brought in to turn the company around. turn things around ▪ I'm sure if we get the right sort of financial backing we can turn things round. 3. turn around/round if a business, school, economy etc turns around, it starts to become successful after it has been unsuccessful: ▪ In just a year the firm has turned around from a $106 million loss to an $11 million profit. turnaround n C a complete change from a bad situation to a good one, especially for a business or a country's economy: ▪ the recent sharp turnaround in Mexico's financial situation 4. turn around/round and ... spoken used to say that someone suddenly does something that is unexpected or unreasonable: ▪ You can't tell other people what to do, and then turn around and say that you aren't going to do it yourself. ▪ The company got rid of 200 permanent employees, then turned round and hired others on a temporary basis. 5. turn sth around/round to consider something in a different way, or change the words of something so that it has a different meaning: ▪ You can of course turn the whole idea around and look at it from another angle. ▪ I think it's more interesting to turn the question around, and ask ourselves why some people do not break down, even though they have a strong genetic disposition to do so. 6. turn around/round sth • turn sth around/round to complete the process of making a product or providing a service: ▪ We guarantee we can turn your order around in under a month. turnaround n singular the time it takes to complete the process of making a product or producing a service: ▪ a 3 week turnaround |
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