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单词 about-turn
释义
about-turn
noun[C]
UK
uk
/əˌbaʊtˈtɜːn/us
/əˌbaʊtˈtɝːn/
(USabout-face)
achangeofdirection:
（朝反方向的）倒转
I'd only gone a little way down thestreetwhen IrememberedI hadn'tlockedthedoor, so Imade/didaquickabout-turn.我在街上刚走出不远就想起来忘锁门了，于是马上转身跑回去。
acompletechangeofopinionorbehaviour:
（意见或行为的）彻底转变
This is the government's second about-turnontheissue.这是政府在这个问题上立场第二次180度大转变。
Synonyms
U-turnmainlydisapproving
about-faceUS
flip-flop(CHANGE)USinformal
reversal
volte-faceliterary
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Changing direction
  • about-face
  • bear
  • bore
  • branch off
  • break
  • cut
  • decoy
  • deflect
  • deflection
  • divert
  • glance off(something)
  • head off
  • oscillate
  • oscillation
  • peaked
  • reverse
  • turn
  • U-ie
  • veer
  • yo-yoing
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Changing
Changing your mind
(Definition ofabout-turnfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofabout-turn

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We now have exactly the same unprincipledabout-turnregarding tolls.
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Work has now been suspended on the power station, and thatabout-turnshould force a radical rethinking of the policy on gas production.
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Perhaps this is a suddenabout-turnto do with elections.
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Thus, in quite a short time there has been something of anabout-turn.
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There is the difficulty for prison staff of performing a completeabout-turn.
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After theabout-turnthe amount had dropped to between £40,000 and £43,000 per year.
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The delays may have jeopardised theabout-turnhaving the effect that we desire.
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The secondabout-turnhas been cutting the link between the national vocational qualification schemes and training.
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Then, illogically, they passed anabout-turnamendment, presumably—not clearly—to reduce the amount that men should pay to those women for their offspring.
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At that time sanity prevailed and the committee did anabout-turn.
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If there is anabout-turn, it is his, not mine.
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Why has he done anabout-turnsince he left office?
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What has happened to face us with thisabout-turn?
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I suggest that it was no argument from this side that caused thatabout-turn.
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He knows what some of the problems are, and he is trying to do anabout-turn.
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