wheel

Word family adjectivewheeledwheelynounwheelerwheeliewheelingwheelbarrowwheelbasewheelchairwheel clampwheeler-dealerwheelhorsewheelhousewheelie binwheelmanwheelworkwheelwrightwheel

Related topics: Transport, Mechanical

wheel1 /wiːl/ S2 W3 noun [countableC] → weal, we'll

1 on a vehicle 车辆上的TT one of the round things under a car, bus, bicycle etc that turns when it moves 车轮

front/rear/back wheels

The car slid sideways, its rear wheels spinning.

汽车向一侧打滑，后轮猛转。

→ four-wheel drive →4 See picture of 见图 MOTORBIKE →5 see picture at 见图 motorbike

2 for controlling a vehicle 用于控制车船等TTDRIVE [usually singular] the round piece of equipment that you turn to make a car, ship etc move in a particular direction 〔汽车、轮船等的〕方向盘，转向盘

at/behind the wheel (=driving a car) 在驾驶汽车

The driver must have fallen asleep at the wheel.

司机一定是在开车时睡着了。

Shall I take the wheel (=drive instead of someone else)?

我来开车好吗？

→ steering wheel

3 in a machine 机器上的TEM a flat round part in a machine that turns round when the machine operates 机轮

a gear wheel

齿轮

4 the wheels of something the way in which a complicated organization, system etc works 〔复杂的机构、体系等的〕运作方式

We hope that the next government will do more to keep the wheels of industry turning (=help it to work smoothly and easily).

我们希望下届政府作出更多努力，让工业顺利发展。

oil/grease the wheels (of something) (=help something to work more smoothly and easily) 使(某事)顺利发展

The money people spend at Christmas oils the wheels of the economy.

人们在圣诞节所花的钱推动经济发展。

Examples from the Corpus

the wheels of something• Meanwhile, the police had found the abandoned car, and the wheels of the law began to turn.• Isobel had heard the wheels of his car on the gravel.• Christmas cash keeps the wheels of the economy oiled.• Its fans hung stalled above them like the wheels of an extinct machine.• Faster and faster spun the wheels of light, and the throbbing of the drums accelerated with them.• This signal triggered the wheels of the mobot and propelled it to right in front of the can.• Almost shoulder to shoulder they were lined along the road, hurling gravel non-stop under the wheels of the passing trucks.

5 the wheel of fortune/life/time etc the way in which things change in life, or in which the same things seem to happen again after a period of time 命运之轮/生命之轮/时间的车轮等

We are powerless to stop the wheel of history.

我们无力阻挡历史的车轮。

Examples from the Corpus

the wheel of fortune/life/time etc• And, as the wheel of fortune continues on its inexorable cycle, values are likely to start going up again soon.• Then the wheel of fortune turned.

6 (set of) wheels spokenTTC a car 汽车

Do you like my new wheels?

你喜欢我的新车吗？

7. wheels within wheels spokenCOMPLICATED used to say that a situation is complicated and difficult to understand because it involves processes and decisions that you know nothing about 错综复杂的情况，复杂的形势

Examples from the Corpus

wheels within wheels• For there existed wheels within wheels within wheels.• The wheels within wheels began to turn, and efforts were made to have the sentence reduced.• Whether it flows as sand or turns on wheels within wheels, time escapes irretrievably, while we watch.

8 set the wheels in motion/set the wheels turning to make a particular process start 让〔某过程〕运作起来

It only took one phone call to set the wheels in motion.

一个电话就促成了这件事的发生。

n9 the wheels come off something used to say that something suddenly stops being successful

Why did the wheels come off his campaign?

10 a/the big wheel informal an important person 重要人物

He became a big wheel in the East India Company.

他成了东印度公司的要人。

Examples from the Corpus

a/the big wheel• Back down the beach, the Big Wheel was turning and there were even queues waiting to get on.• You will also catch a glimpse of the Big Wheel in the famous Peter fairground.• Ahead of them, they could see the Big Wheel turning against a sky streaked with red and grey.• They came to steal a Big Wheel tricycle.• He was sitting in the little hut where you bought your tickets to get on to the Big Wheel.• Because this was the contraption's trial run, it was to be driven manually by turning the big wheel.• He was a big wheel in Bucharest Securitate, Mr Manescu.• The boys then allegedly put the infant on another bed and fled with the Big Wheel, police said.

→ put your shoulder to the wheel at shoulder1(8), → put a spoke in somebody’s wheel at spoke2(2), → reinvent the wheel at reinvent(3)

n COLLOCATIONS

adjectives

the front wheel

Turn your front wheels in the direction of the skid.

the back/rear wheel

The rear wheels of the bus got stuck in a creek.

verbs

a wheel turns/goes around

The wheels went slowly around.

a wheel spins (=turns around quickly, when the vehicle is not going along)

The rear wheels spun in the sand.

phrases

the spokes of a wheel (=the thin metal bars that connect the outer ring of a wheel to the centre, especially on a bicycle wheel)

Examples from the Corpus

wheel• A big wheel in local government.• The real danger to the mountain vegetation comes not from cycle wheels but from acid rain and global warming.• Outside, a dozen gleaming Harleys were parked in a row, backed in, wheels cut to the left, identical.• As soon as they were taken from shelter, they began to slide on locked wheels over the yard, and then to tilt.• I missed the slower trains with the lounge cars and the rackety wheels.• I let myself droop against the steering wheel.• By Easter 1991 the above were well on the way, and the wheels had also been fitted.• Locomotives weighing thirty or forty tons caused havoc where wheel met rail, iron rails sometimes needing replacement every two years.

at/behind the wheel• When you are behind the wheel, your most important responsibility is safe driving.• With Chancellor at the wheel, they had left enfamille to do the shopping.• After thirty minutes I went outside, opened the door of the Falcon and sat down behind the wheel.• He decided to wait, watching as the driver switched off the engine and slid from behind the wheel.• Jack tipped him five and got behind the wheel of his Lincoln, which he was buying on time.• Sweating with fear, Lepine dashed along the verandah and flung himself behind the wheel of the Citron.• Elizabeth was slaughtered at the wheel of her boyfriend's four-wheel-drive truck as she desperately tried to escape.

Related topics: Transport, Air

wheel2 verb

1 [transitiveT always + adverbadv/prepositionprep]

a) TTPUSHto push something that has wheels somewhere 推动〔带轮子的东西〕

Kate wheeled her bike into the garage.

凯特把她的自行车推进车库。

b) MOVE something OR somebodyto move someone or something that is in or on something that has wheels 用轮椅[手推车等]推动〔某人或某物〕

Two nurses were wheeling him into the operating theatre.

两名护士正把他推进手术室。

► see thesaurus at push

2. [intransitiveI]TTABBA if birds or planes wheel, they fly around in circles 〔鸟或飞机〕盘旋

3 [intransitiveI]TURN to turn around suddenly 突然转身

wheel around

She wheeled around and started yelling at us.

她突然转身，冲着我们嚷嚷起来。

4. wheel and deal BBPPto do a lot of complicated and sometimes dishonest deals, especially in politics or business 〔尤指在政治或商业上〕投机取巧，玩弄手段

Examples from the Corpus

wheel and deal• In their case, both ran as outsiders, a tricky strategy in a family known for its insider wheeling and dealing.• There was more wheeling and dealing behind the cameras than in front of them.• She had to concede that Adrienne could wheel and deal in more ways than one.• What makes this cautionary tale so instructive is not just the details of back-room wheeling and dealing that relate specifically to Chicago.

5 wheel somebody/something ↔ in/out phrasal verbphr v informal SHOW/LET somebody SEE somethingto publicly produce someone or something and use them to help you achieve something 〔为帮助自己达成某事而〕请出〔某人〕，推出〔某物〕

Then the prosecution wheeled in a surprise witness.

然后控方请出了一名意想不到的证人。

The government wheeled out the same old arguments to support its election campaign.

政府又搬出老一套论调来支持其选举活动。

Examples from the Corpus

wheel in/out• Then he wheeled his wife out.• Kath snapped instructions to everyone, and Amy wheeled Mr Thompson out and took him to the interview-room.• The wheels started turning in his head.• Many times when we were set up in our wagon wheels out in the bush somewhere, we would receive mortar fire.• The ride was rough, the wheel jerking out of my grip.• Eleanor Shergold was at the wheel with Snappy in the back.• They wheeled us on in the background like a couple of fossils.• But were the large hydraulic wheels then in use capable of working powerful enough pumps, or relays of pumps?

Examples from the Corpus

wheel• Just forget about anyone wheeling a linen-covered table into your room with plates, silverware, wine glasses and ice buckets.• Theresa is wheeling a pushchair and trying to cope with the twins.• The pigeons wheel and scuttle around us.• As I arrived she was just wheeling her bicycle out of the shed.• Two other buzzards wheel in on big circling paths further along, about 30m above the woods.• No one said a word until the waiters wheeled in the centrepiece of the main course.• I collected a trolley and wheeled it towards the frozen food section.• They then wheeled me into the operating room.• The seagulls wheeled off and up over the harbour.• And above, the pinpricks of light wheeling on.• She hated being wheeled round in a wheelchair.

wheel around• She wheeled around and started yelling at us.

Origin wheel1

Old English hweogol, hweol

单词	wheel
释义	wheel Word family adjectivewheeledwheelynounwheelerwheeliewheelingwheelbarrowwheelbasewheelchairwheel clampwheeler-dealerwheelhorsewheelhousewheelie binwheelmanwheelworkwheelwrightwheel Related topics: Transport, Mechanical wheel1 /wiːl/ ●●● S2 W3 noun [countableC] → weal, we'll 1 on a vehicle 车辆上的TT one of the round things under a car, bus, bicycle etc that turns when it moves 车轮 front/rear/back wheels The car slid sideways, its rear wheels spinning. 汽车向一侧打滑，后轮猛转。 → four-wheel drive →4 See picture of 见图 MOTORBIKE →5 see picture at 见图 motorbike 2 for controlling a vehicle 用于控制车船等TTDRIVE [usually singular] the round piece of equipment that you turn to make a car, ship etc move in a particular direction 〔汽车、轮船等的〕方向盘，转向盘 at/behind the wheel (=driving a car) 在驾驶汽车 The driver must have fallen asleep at the wheel. 司机一定是在开车时睡着了。 Shall I take the wheel (=drive instead of someone else)? 我来开车好吗？ → steering wheel 3 in a machine 机器上的TEM a flat round part in a machine that turns round when the machine operates 机轮 a gear wheel 齿轮 4 the wheels of something the way in which a complicated organization, system etc works 〔复杂的机构、体系等的〕运作方式 We hope that the next government will do more to keep the wheels of industry turning (=help it to work smoothly and easily). 我们希望下届政府作出更多努力，让工业顺利发展。 oil/grease the wheels (of something) (=help something to work more smoothly and easily) 使(某事)顺利发展 The money people spend at Christmas oils the wheels of the economy. 人们在圣诞节所花的钱推动经济发展。 Examples from the Corpus the wheels of something• Meanwhile, the police had found the abandoned car, and the wheels of the law began to turn.• Isobel had heard the wheels of his car on the gravel.• Christmas cash keeps the wheels of the economy oiled.• Its fans hung stalled above them like the wheels of an extinct machine.• Faster and faster spun the wheels of light, and the throbbing of the drums accelerated with them.• This signal triggered the wheels of the mobot and propelled it to right in front of the can.• Almost shoulder to shoulder they were lined along the road, hurling gravel non-stop under the wheels of the passing trucks. 5 the wheel of fortune/life/time etc the way in which things change in life, or in which the same things seem to happen again after a period of time 命运之轮/生命之轮/时间的车轮等 We are powerless to stop the wheel of history. 我们无力阻挡历史的车轮。 Examples from the Corpus the wheel of fortune/life/time etc• And, as the wheel of fortune continues on its inexorable cycle, values are likely to start going up again soon.• Then the wheel of fortune turned. 6 (set of) wheels spokenTTC a car 汽车 Do you like my new wheels? 你喜欢我的新车吗？ 7. wheels within wheels spokenCOMPLICATED used to say that a situation is complicated and difficult to understand because it involves processes and decisions that you know nothing about 错综复杂的情况，复杂的形势 Examples from the Corpus wheels within wheels• For there existed wheels within wheels within wheels.• The wheels within wheels began to turn, and efforts were made to have the sentence reduced.• Whether it flows as sand or turns on wheels within wheels, time escapes irretrievably, while we watch. 8 set the wheels in motion/set the wheels turning to make a particular process start 让〔某过程〕运作起来 It only took one phone call to set the wheels in motion. 一个电话就促成了这件事的发生。 n9 the wheels come off something used to say that something suddenly stops being successful Why did the wheels come off his campaign? 10 a/the big wheel informal an important person 重要人物 He became a big wheel in the East India Company. 他成了东印度公司的要人。 Examples from the Corpus a/the big wheel• Back down the beach, the Big Wheel was turning and there were even queues waiting to get on.• You will also catch a glimpse of the Big Wheel in the famous Peter fairground.• Ahead of them, they could see the Big Wheel turning against a sky streaked with red and grey.• They came to steal a Big Wheel tricycle.• He was sitting in the little hut where you bought your tickets to get on to the Big Wheel.• Because this was the contraption's trial run, it was to be driven manually by turning the big wheel.• He was a big wheel in Bucharest Securitate, Mr Manescu.• The boys then allegedly put the infant on another bed and fled with the Big Wheel, police said. → put your shoulder to the wheel at shoulder1(8), → put a spoke in somebody’s wheel at spoke2(2), → reinvent the wheel at reinvent(3) n COLLOCATIONS adjectives the front wheel Turn your front wheels in the direction of the skid. the back/rear wheel The rear wheels of the bus got stuck in a creek. verbs a wheel turns/goes around The wheels went slowly around. a wheel spins (=turns around quickly, when the vehicle is not going along) The rear wheels spun in the sand. phrases the spokes of a wheel (=the thin metal bars that connect the outer ring of a wheel to the centre, especially on a bicycle wheel) Examples from the Corpus wheel• A big wheel in local government.• The real danger to the mountain vegetation comes not from cycle wheels but from acid rain and global warming.• Outside, a dozen gleaming Harleys were parked in a row, backed in, wheels cut to the left, identical.• As soon as they were taken from shelter, they began to slide on locked wheels over the yard, and then to tilt.• I missed the slower trains with the lounge cars and the rackety wheels.• I let myself droop against the steering wheel.• By Easter 1991 the above were well on the way, and the wheels had also been fitted.• Locomotives weighing thirty or forty tons caused havoc where wheel met rail, iron rails sometimes needing replacement every two years. at/behind the wheel• When you are behind the wheel, your most important responsibility is safe driving.• With Chancellor at the wheel, they had left enfamille to do the shopping.• After thirty minutes I went outside, opened the door of the Falcon and sat down behind the wheel.• He decided to wait, watching as the driver switched off the engine and slid from behind the wheel.• Jack tipped him five and got behind the wheel of his Lincoln, which he was buying on time.• Sweating with fear, Lepine dashed along the verandah and flung himself behind the wheel of the Citron.• Elizabeth was slaughtered at the wheel of her boyfriend's four-wheel-drive truck as she desperately tried to escape. Related topics: Transport, Air wheel2 ●○○ verb 1 [transitiveT always + adverbadv/prepositionprep] a) TTPUSHto push something that has wheels somewhere 推动〔带轮子的东西〕 Kate wheeled her bike into the garage. 凯特把她的自行车推进车库。 b) MOVE something OR somebodyto move someone or something that is in or on something that has wheels 用轮椅[手推车等]推动〔某人或某物〕 Two nurses were wheeling him into the operating theatre. 两名护士正把他推进手术室。 ► see thesaurus at push 2. [intransitiveI]TTABBA if birds or planes wheel, they fly around in circles 〔鸟或飞机〕盘旋 3 [intransitiveI]TURN to turn around suddenly 突然转身 wheel around She wheeled around and started yelling at us. 她突然转身，冲着我们嚷嚷起来。 4. wheel and deal BBPPto do a lot of complicated and sometimes dishonest deals, especially in politics or business 〔尤指在政治或商业上〕投机取巧，玩弄手段 Examples from the Corpus wheel and deal• In their case, both ran as outsiders, a tricky strategy in a family known for its insider wheeling and dealing.• There was more wheeling and dealing behind the cameras than in front of them.• She had to concede that Adrienne could wheel and deal in more ways than one.• What makes this cautionary tale so instructive is not just the details of back-room wheeling and dealing that relate specifically to Chicago. 5 wheel somebody/something ↔ in/out phrasal verbphr v informal SHOW/LET somebody SEE somethingto publicly produce someone or something and use them to help you achieve something 〔为帮助自己达成某事而〕请出〔某人〕，推出〔某物〕 Then the prosecution wheeled in a surprise witness. 然后控方请出了一名意想不到的证人。 The government wheeled out the same old arguments to support its election campaign. 政府又搬出老一套论调来支持其选举活动。 Examples from the Corpus wheel in/out• Then he wheeled his wife out.• Kath snapped instructions to everyone, and Amy wheeled Mr Thompson out and took him to the interview-room.• The wheels started turning in his head.• Many times when we were set up in our wagon wheels out in the bush somewhere, we would receive mortar fire.• The ride was rough, the wheel jerking out of my grip.• Eleanor Shergold was at the wheel with Snappy in the back.• They wheeled us on in the background like a couple of fossils.• But were the large hydraulic wheels then in use capable of working powerful enough pumps, or relays of pumps? Examples from the Corpus wheel• Just forget about anyone wheeling a linen-covered table into your room with plates, silverware, wine glasses and ice buckets.• Theresa is wheeling a pushchair and trying to cope with the twins.• The pigeons wheel and scuttle around us.• As I arrived she was just wheeling her bicycle out of the shed.• Two other buzzards wheel in on big circling paths further along, about 30m above the woods.• No one said a word until the waiters wheeled in the centrepiece of the main course.• I collected a trolley and wheeled it towards the frozen food section.• They then wheeled me into the operating room.• The seagulls wheeled off and up over the harbour.• And above, the pinpricks of light wheeling on.• She hated being wheeled round in a wheelchair. wheel around• She wheeled around and started yelling at us. Origin wheel1 Old English hweogol, hweol
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