in the round

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英文释义

介词短语
  1. Not attached to a background.
    — Noah's ark with animals in the round
  2. Arranged in a circle.
    — The students sat in the round.
  3. Having a stage completely surrounded by an audience.
    — There is another sense in which we can say that theatre begins in the round. Teachers in schools frequently observe that the dramatic play of children and their early attempts at theatre frequently take a natural in-the-round shape.
  4. Done with circular needles, so as to create tubes of fabric.
    — Loosely cast on 90 stitches. Place stitch marker and join to work in the round, being careful not to twist the cast-on stitches.
  5. In full detail; from all angles. figuratively
    — The government responds to such news with its usual ludicrous evasions: “I don’t deny there are costs to a decision like Brexit,” said Jeremy Hunt in November, “but there are also opportunities, and you have to see it in the round.”
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