| 词组 | round |
| 释义 | adjective | noun round1 /raʊnd/ adjective shaped like a circlenounsa round hole There was a small round hole in the top of the box.a round shape He drew round shapes for the wheels.a round table They sat at a round table.a round face/head Pat had a red round face.round eyes He watched her with big round eyes.adverbsperfectly round The Earth isn’t perfectly round.THESAURUS: round circularmotion | movement | route | walk | hole | table | area shaped like a circle. Circular is slightly more formal than round, and can also be used about movements: She rubbed her stomach in a circular motion. | Brush your teeth using small circular movements. | The bus ran a circular route. | This is a pleasant five-mile circular walk. | There was a circular hole in the floor. | They were seated around a circular table. | In the middle is a circular area with benches and a fountain. sphericalshape | object shaped like a ball. Spherical is usually used in technical English: Most moons and planets have a spherical shape. | People reported seeing an orange spherical object move through the sky. curvedsurface | line | shape | edge | path | roof | wall not straight, but not completely round: There was a crack in the curved surface of the cup. | She drew a curved line. | I arranged the candles in a curved shape. | The table’s curved edge is to stop small children from banging their heads. | A curved path leads through the garden. | The stadium has a curved roof. | The building had curved walls and round windows. adjective | noun round2 noun a round of events is a series of related events, which are part of a longer processphrasesa round of talks/negotiations/meetings A second round of talks got under way this week.a round of voting In the first round of voting he took 44.5 percent of the vote.a round of cuts (=when a government or a company reduces the size of something) The president is likely to approve a new round of cuts in military forces.a round of layoffs/redundancies (=when people are told to leave their jobs) The latest round of layoffs could bring its labor force down to 60,000.a round of violence What was the cause of the latest round of violence? |
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