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wheel ★★★☆☆
/(h)wi͟ːl/
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[N-COUNT 可数名词]轮;轮子;车轮 The wheels of a vehicle are the circular objects which are fixed underneath it and which enable it to move along the ground.
  [n PHR]
  • The car wheels spun and slipped on some oil on the road.

    路面上有些油,汽车车轮经过时直打滑。

  • Something on wheels has wheels attached to the bottom, so that it can be moved easily.带轮子的,底部装有轮子的
    • ...a trolley on wheels...

      带轮的小推车

    • The stove is on wheels so it can be shuffled around easily.

      这个炉子底下带轮子,很容易四处移动。

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    [N-COUNT 可数名词]机轮 A wheel is a circular object which forms a part of a machine, usually a moving part.
  • ...an eighteenth century mill with a water wheel.

    一个带有水轮的18世纪磨粉机

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    [N-COUNT 可数名词]方向盘 The wheel of a car or other vehicle is the circular object that is used to steer it. The wheel is used in expressions to talk about who is driving a vehicle. For example, if someone is at the wheel of a car, they are driving it.
      [usu sing]
  • My co-pilot suddenly grabbed the wheel...

    我的副驾驶突然抓住了方向盘。

  • Curtis got behind the wheel and they started back toward the cottage...

    由柯蒂斯开车,他们启程返回小屋。

  • Roberto handed Flynn the keys and let him take the wheel.

    罗伯托把钥匙递给弗林,让他开车。

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    [N-PLURAL 复数名词]汽车 People sometimes refer to a car as wheels .
      [INFORMAL 非正式]
  • 'Do you own a house?' — 'No. But I have wheels.'

    “你有房吗?”——“没有,但我有车。”

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    [VERB 动词]推(带轮子的物体) If you wheel an object that has wheels somewhere, you push it along.
      [V n prep/adv]
  • He wheeled his bike into the alley at the side of the house...

    他把自行车推进了房子旁的小巷中。

  • They wheeled her out on the stretcher.

    他们用担架床把她推了出去。

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    [VERB 动词](动物、鸟禽等)转圈,旋转,盘旋 If something such as a group of animals or birds wheels, it moves in a circle.
      [V]
      [LITERARY 文]
  • A flock of crows wheeled overhead.

    一群乌鸦在头顶上盘旋。

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    [VERB 动词](因惊讶、震惊或生气)突然转身 If you wheel around, you turn around suddenly where you are standing, often because you are surprised, shocked, or angry.
      [V adv]
      [V]
  • He wheeled around to face her...

    他突然转过身来面对她。

  • She wheeled sharply and headed for the check-out counter.

    她突然转身,朝收银台走去。

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    [N-SING 单数名词](尤指多次发生相同的情形)命运之轮 You use wheel in expressions such as the wheel of fortune to refer to the changes that take place in life, especially when you are referring to the fact that the same situations occur more than once.
      [the N of n]
  • The wheel of fortune will swing round again; in politics, it always does...

    风水会轮流转;在政治上,它总是如此。

  • In his view the wheel of history could not be turned back.

    在他看来历史的车轮不能倒退。

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    [N-PLURAL 复数名词](组织或系统的)运作方式 People talk about the wheels of an organization or system to mean the way in which it operates. to oil the wheels→see:
    oil
      [the N of n]
  • He knows the wheels of administration turn slowly.

    他知道行政机关办事效率低。

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    [PHRASE 短语](各种影响、原因和行动交织在一起的)错综复杂的情况 If you say that there are wheels within wheels, you mean that there are a number of different influences, reasons, and actions which together make a situation complicated and difficult to understand.
  • Our culture is more complex than he knows. Wheels within wheels.

    我们的文化比他所知道的要复杂得多,相当庞杂。

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    See also:
    Catherine wheel
    meals on wheels
    potter's wheel
    spare wheel
    spinning wheel
    steering wheel
    water wheel

    Oxford
    wheel / wiːl ; NAmE wiːl /
    noun
    ,
    verb
    wheel wheels wheeled wheeling
    noun on/in vehicles 车辆 1 [countable ] one of the round objects under a car, bicycle, bus, etc. that turns when it moves 轮;车轮;轮子 He braked suddenly, causing the front wheels to skid. 他猛然刹车,使得前车轮打滑了。 One of the boys was pushing the other along in a little box on wheels. 一个男孩用下面装着轮子的小箱子推着另一个男孩。 2 [countable ,  usually singular ] the round object used to steer a car, etc. or ship (汽车等的)方向盘;(轮船的)舵轮 This is the first time I've sat behind the wheelsince the accident. 这是出车祸以来我头一次坐在方向盘前。 A car swept past with Laura at the wheel. 劳拉驱车疾驰而过。 Do you want to take the wheel (= drive)now? 你现在想开车吗? see also
    helm
    ,
    steering wheel
    3 wheels [plural ] ( informal) a car 汽车 At last he had his own wheels. 他终于有了自己的汽车。
    in machine 机器 4 [countable ] a flat round part in a machine 机轮 gear wheels 齿轮 see also
    cartwheel
    ,
    Catherine wheel
    ,
    Ferris wheel
    ,
    mill wheel
    ,
    spinning wheel
    ,
    waterwheel
    organization/system 组织;系统 5 wheels [plural ] wheel(of sth) an organization or a system that seems to work like a complicated machine that is difficult to understand 错综复杂的机构(或系统) the wheels of bureaucracy/commerce/government, etc. 复杂的官僚、商务、政府等机构 It was Rob's idea. I merely set the wheels in motion (= started the process). 这是罗布的主意。我只不过是让它运作起来而已。 -wheeled 有…轮 6 ( in adjectives 构成形容词 ) having the number or type of wheels mentioned 有…轮的 a sixteen-wheeled lorry 十六轮大卡车 -wheeler 有…轮子的车 7 ( in nouns 构成名词 ) a car, bicycle, etc. with the number of wheels mentioned 有…轮子的汽车(或自行车等) a three-wheeler 三轮机动车 IDIOM ˌwheels within ˈwheels a situation which is difficult to understand because it involves complicated or secret processes and decisions 错综复杂;盘根错节 There are wheels within wheels in this organization—you never really know what is going on. 这个机构里错综复杂,你永远搞不清到底是怎么回事。 more at
    cog
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    grease
    v.
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    oil
    v.
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    reinvent
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    shoulder
    n.
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    spoke
    verb move sth with wheels 用轮子移动 1 [transitive ] wheelsth (+ adv./prep.) to push or pull sth that has wheels 推(或拉)有轮之物 She wheeled her bicycle across the road. 她推着自行车穿过了马路。 2 [transitive ] wheelsb/sth (+ adv./prep.) to move sb/sth that is in or on sth that has wheels 用有轮之物推动(或拉动、移动)… The nurse wheeled him along the corridor. 护士推着他沿楼道走。 move in circle 旋转 3 [intransitive ] (+ adv./prep.) to move or fly in a circle 转动;旋转;打转;盘旋 Birds wheeled above us in the sky. 鸟儿在我们上空盘旋。 turn quickly 快速转向 4 [intransitive ,  transitive ] to turn quickly or suddenly and face the opposite direction; to make sb/sth do this (使)迅速转身,猛然转身 (+ adv./prep.) She wheeled around and started running. 她突然转身就跑。 wheelsb/sth (+ adv./prep.) He wheeled his horse back to the gate. 他突然掉转马头返回到大门。 IDIOM ˌwheel and ˈdeal ( usually used in the progressive tenses 通常用于进行时 ) to do a lot of complicated deals in business or politics, often in a dishonest way (在商界或政界)工于心计;(以不正当的方式)进行纷繁复杂的交易,周旋 PHRASAL VERB ˌwheel sth↔ˈout to show or use sth to help you do sth, even when it has often been seen or heard before 故伎重演 They wheeled out the same old arguments we'd heard so many times before. 他们又弹起了我们听过多次的老调。 wheel / wiːl ; NAmE wiːl /
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    wheel1 noun
    wheel2 verb
    wheelwheel1 /wiːl/ ●●● S2 W3 noun [countable]
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    1on a vehicle one of the round things under a car, bus, bicycle etc that turns when it movesfront/rear/back wheels The car slid sideways, its rear wheels spinning.
    four-wheel drive
    2for controlling a vehicle [usually singular] the round piece of equipment that you turn to make a car, ship etc move in a particular directionat/behind the wheel (=driving a car) The driver must have fallen asleep at the wheel. Shall I take the wheel (=drive instead of someone else)?
    steering wheel
    3in a machine a flat round part in a machine that turns round when the machine operates:  a gear wheel4the wheels of something the way in which a complicated organization, system etc works:  We hope that the next government will do more to keep the wheels of industry turning (=help it to work smoothly and easily).oil/grease the wheels (of something) (=help something to work more smoothly and easily) The money people spend at Christmas oils the wheels of the economy.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:  We are powerless to stop the wheel of history.6(set of) wheels spoken a car:  Do you like my new wheels?7wheels within wheels spoken used to say that a situation is complicated and difficult to understand because it involves processes and decisions that you know nothing about8set the wheels in motion/set the wheels turning to make a particular process start:  It only took one phone call to set the wheels in motion.9the wheels come off something used to say that something suddenly stops being successful:  Why did the wheels come off his campaign?10a/the big wheel informal an important person:  He became a big wheel in the East India Company. 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)
    COLLOCATIONSadjectivesthe front wheel· Turn your front wheels in the direction of the skid.the back/rear wheel· The rear wheels of the bus got stuck in a creek.verbsa wheel turns/goes around· The wheels went slowly around.a wheel spins (=turns around quickly, when the vehicle is not going along)· The rear wheels spun in the sand.phrasesthe spokes of a wheel (=the thin metal bars that connect the outer ring of a wheel to the centre, especially on a bicycle wheel)
    wheel1 noun
    wheel2 verb
    wheelwheel2 ●○○ verb
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    1[transitive always + adverb/preposition] a)to push something that has wheels somewhere:  Kate wheeled her bike into the garage. b)to move someone or something that is in or on something that has wheels:  Two nurses were wheeling him into the operating theatre. see thesaurus at
    push
    2[intransitive] if birds or planes wheel, they fly around in circles3[intransitive] to turn around suddenlywheel around She wheeled around and started yelling at us.4wheel and deal to do a lot of complicated and sometimes dishonest deals, especially in politics or businesswheel somebody/something ↔ in/out phrasal verb informal to publicly produce someone or something and use them to help you achieve something:  Then the prosecution wheeled in a surprise witness. The government wheeled out the same old arguments to support its election campaign.
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