U-turn

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A turn in a vehicle carried out by driving in a semicircle in order to travel in the opposite direction.
    — What's disappointing about all this doom and gloom is that the franchise has made the kind of whiplashing U-turn you might see in its car-chase sequences.
  2. A reversal of policy or opinion. figuratively
    — The government have done a U-turn and are now supporting greater European integration instead of opposing it.
动词 v.
  1. To turn a vehicle in a semicircle so as to face the opposite direction (∩)).
  2. To shift from one opinion or decision to its opposite. intransitive
    — She made the case for cutting taxes as “the right thing to do morally and economically”, despite having just U-turned over her decision to abolish the 45p top rate of income tax.

词形变化

U-turns plural u-turn alternative U-turns present,singular,third-person U-turning participle,present U-turned participle,past U-turned past u-turn alternative

词源

词源 1
From U + turn, from the similarity to the shape of the letter U.
词源 2
From U + turn, from the similarity to the shape of the letter U.
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