turn over
动词 v.
英文释义
动词 v.
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To flip over; to rotate uppermost to bottom.
— Turn over the box and look at the bottom.
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To relinquish; give back.
— They turned over the evidence to the authorities.
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To transfer.
— But what is to be done with our manufacturing population […] This one thing, of doing for them by ‘underselling all people,’ and filling our own bursten pockets and appetites by the road; and turning over all care for any ‘population,’ or human or divine consideration except cash only, to the winds, with a “Laissez-faire” and the rest of it: this is evidently not the thing.
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To produce, complete, or cycle through.
— They can turn over about three hundred units per hour.
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To generate (a certain amount of money from sales).
— The business turned over £1m last year.
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To mull, ponder
— Thus they dwelled for nearly a year, and in that time Robin Hood often turned over in his mind many means of making an even score with the Sheriff
- To spin the crankshaft of an internal combustion engine using the starter or hand crank in an attempt to make it run.
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To give up control (of the ball and thus the ability to score).
— The Giants didn't turn the ball over in their last four games.
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To cause extensive disturbance or disruption to (a room, storage place, etc.), e.g. while searching for an item, or ransacking a property.
— I've turned over the whole place, but I still can't find my glasses.
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Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see turn, over.
— The family feeling was intensified as we stopped to speak to mothers in the cottage gardens, or waved to distant tractors turning over chocolate-brown furrows and driven by 'my dad' or 'my Uncle Bob'.
词汇关系
词源
From turn + over.
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