about-turns

about-turn[ə'baut,tə:n]

• • [英国、加拿大英语]
• n.
  • 向后转(指操练动作)；(朝反方向的)倒转；朝反方向的行进
  • (立场、观点、态度、主意等的)彻底改变
• vi.
  • 向后转，做向后转动作；倒转；朝相反方向行进：

    He aboutturned and swam all the way back.

    他转身游了回来。

  • 改弦易辙，(在立场、观点、态度、主意等方面)作彻底改变，突然改变，作180度转弯[亦作 about-face]

• adhds
• sitotoxin
• fluid inclusion
• plottier
• Worcester china,Worcester porcelain
• litterbugs
• squareer
• dermatophobia
• telharmonium
• realizable
• Huronian
• sex
• wackily
• freeloader
• divaricate
• ganglier
• on alert
• pluviometrical
• reed contact
• duplex pump
• governor
• chloromycetins
• firebrat
• desmidiaceaes
• have sth at the tips of one’s fingers
• unconventionality
• aquitaines
• yellow-shafted flicker
• criticalities
• warehousemen
• C index
• bat bolt
• sulphurously
• thrombophlebitis
• Indian licorice
• gullies
• hirple
• hepatitis non-A non-B virus
• debated
• vociferosity
• uprises
• in-basket
• misgovern
• Sapphic ode
• frequency interlacing
• clonuss
• calpac
• Pollyannas
• keep an open mind
• Barthou, (Jean) Louis
• hidropoiesis
• disbarred
• strong for
• first-nighter
• alveolate
• thermionic work function
• TOMS
• snobby
• crapulence
• lash together
• eared seal
• Lichenes
• flat out
• hemianesthesia
• accountably
• sterigmata
• wiglet
• see sb↔out
• stark raving mad
• blockish
• mesne lords
• continuous assessment
• shellfish
• bin sort
• tongue-tying
• mutual admiration society
• BID
• tell
• Balmain, Pierre (Alexan dre)
• poster colours
• pugnacity
• hemipelagic region
• goldings
• inveteracies
• supposedly
• cryoprobes
• trieteric
• asymmetric unit
• isobathythermic
• doe-eyed
• confirmedness
• well-turned-out
• sulfamethazines
• tauting
• compilation error
• have a go at
• outwears
• take sth to extremes
• all-burnt
• Aspredinidae