| 词组 | turn over |
| 释义 | turn over 1. turn over • turn over sb • turn sb over to move so that you are facing in a different direction why you are lying down, or to move someone so that they do this: ▪ Patrick turned over in bed, to discover that Judy had already gone downstairs. ▪ The nurses gently turned her over and straightened out the sheets. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑roll over 2. turn over sth • turn sth over to move something so that you can use, look at, or listen to the other side of it: ▪ Could you turn over the cassette? ▪ Juliet picked up the silver bowl, turning it over in her hand. turn over a page BrE ▪ If you turn over the page, you will see the diagram that relates to these statistics. 3. turn over • turn sth over BrE to change to a different programme on the television, by pressing a button: ▪ The film was so boring that we turned over half way through it. ▪ Do you mind if I turn the TV over to watch the news? ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑switch over BrE 4. turn over sb • turn sb over to take a criminal to the police, or to tell the police where a criminal is: + to ▪ The FBI caught Rostov and turned him over to the CIA. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑turn in 5. turn sth/sb over • turn over sth/sb to give something or someone to a person or authority so that they can deal with them or be responsible for them + to ▪ Terry and his two-year old sister Tiffany were unharmed in the attack, and were turned over to relatives. ▪ The government seems to want to turn much of public healthcare over to the private sector. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑hand over 6. turn sth over • turn over sth to give something such as a business or a piece of property to someone, so that they become the legal owner of it: + to ▪ I expect Mr Busby will turn the shop over to his son when he retires. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑hand over 7. turn over sth • turn sth over especially BrE if a business turns over an amount of money, it makes that amount in a particular period of time: ▪ The new company, Essential Computing, turned over $500,000 in its first year. turnover n singular the total amount of money made by a business in a particular period of time: ▪ an annual turnover of $5.6 million 8. turn sth over • turn over sth to think carefully about something in order to understand it or make a decision about it: ▪ I took a cigarette from the pack, turning over what Connors had told me. turn sth over in your mind ▪ She said she needed a few days to turn it over in her mind. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑chew over, ↑mull over, consider 9. turn sth over • turn over sth • turn over if someone turns a car engine over or it turns over, it starts: ▪ Hicks turned the engine over, felt for the accelerator and backed into the Harpswell Road. ▪ It was a very cold morning and the engine wouldn't even turn over. 10. turn sth over BrE informal to search a place thoroughly, or to steal things from a place, in a way that causes a lot of damage or makes the place very untidy: ▪ The police went in and turned the whole house over to see if there were any drugs. turn the place over ▪ We came back from holiday to find the place had been turned over, and all my jewellery taken. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑do over |
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