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turn (obj) CHANGE DIRECTIONHtV:n, $tV:rnvto (cause to) change the direction in which you are facing or moving使转向; 使向着，使对着She told me to turn right and then left until I came to a grocer's shop. [I]她告诉我向右转，然后向左转，才到了杂货店。The path twists and turns so much that it's hard to tell which direction it's going in. [I]那条小路弯弯曲曲、转来转去, 无法说它是朝哪个方向去的。We have to turn down/into/up the next road on the right. [I]我们必须在下一个路口往右拐。It's just along here that we have to turn off (= move off this road onto another). [I]我们得马上准备拐弯了。After four kilometres, we turned onto a smaller road. [I]走了四公里后, 我们拐上了一条较小的路。The plants turned towards the source of light. [I]植物朝向光源。She turned to face her father. [I]她转过身去面对着她父亲。The children turned round at the top of the stairs and waved to us. [I]孩子们在楼梯上端转过来向我们挥手。(Am) Cheetahs are legendary for being able to turn on a dime (= in a very small space). [I]猎豹能够在方寸间转身，真灵巧至极。He angrily turned on his heel (= turned quickly to face the opposite direction) and left the room. [I]他愤怒地转过身离开了房间。The person on my left turned to me and whispered "Not another speech!". [I] 我左边的人转向我耳语道： “可别再来一场演讲！”We're lost -- we'll have to turn back (= go back). [I]我们迷路了----我们必须转回去。They turned us away/back at the entrance (= did not allow us to enter) because we hadn't got tickets. [M]他们在入口处拦住了我们, 因为我们没有票。He turned his head at the sound of her voice. [T]听到她的声音后他把头转了过来。The driver turned the limousine round outside the hotel and drove back the way he had come. [M]司机在宾馆外将豪华轿车调转头, 朝他来的方向驶去。His wife tried to speak to him, but he turned his back (on her)/turned away (from her) (= moved himself round and away from her to show his anger). [I]他妻子想跟他说话, 但他却转身离开了。Now the children are older, they've turned their back on/turned away from (= are not interested in) toys and want computers instead.现在孩子们大了, 他们已经对玩具不感兴趣了, 他们想要计算机。Surely you won't turn your back on (= refuse to help) them.你一定不会拒绝帮助他们的。We watched until the car had turned (= gone round) the corner. [T]我们看着, 一直等到车在拐角处转弯。If you turn the corner, a bad situation starts to improve.好转; 渡过难关After three months of poor sales we started to turn the corner in December.经历三个月销售不佳后, 在12月我们开始好转。She put out the light, turned over (= rolled in order to face in another direction) and went to sleep. [I]她关了灯, 转过身就睡了。If you turn something (over), you place the surface which was on top on the bottom.（使）翻转，（使）翻倒; （把…）翻过来; （使）翻身，（使）翻滚She turned over the book to look for the price. [M]她把书翻过来看价格。He turned (over) two or three pages. [T/M]他翻了两到三页。His father had been turning the idea over (in his mind) (= thinking about it) for some time. [M]他父亲将这个想法反复考虑了一段时间。Now turn to (= open the book at) page 23 and look at the first paragraph. [I]现在将书翻到23页, 看第一段。The army turned their guns on (= pointed them at and started to shoot at) the protesters. [T]军队把枪口对准抗议者开枪。To turn an emotion or your attention on/to something or someone is to start to feel or do it.开始感觉到…; 开始做…The child turned her anger onto (= became angry with) her sister. [T]孩子开始对她姐姐发火。The judge turned his gaze on (= turned to look at) the defendant. [T]法官将目光盯着被告。After a few minutes of general chat, she turned (the conversation) to (= started to talk about) more serious matters. [I/T]闲谈了一会儿后她开始谈正事。We turned our attention to (= started to consider) next year's budget. [T]我们开始考虑下一年度的预算。As soon as the trip was over, they started to turn their minds to (= to consider) where they would go next year. [T]旅行一结束, 他们就开始考虑下一年该去哪儿。Some of the children could turn (= perform) somersaults. [T]有些孩子能够翻筋斗。At about three o'clock, the tide started to turn (= the sea started to come closer to or move away from the beach). [I]大约在三点钟, 潮汐开始出现了。You turn a blind eye by ignoring something that you know is wrong.（对…）视而不见; 听之任之He parked in a 'disabled' space, hoping that the carpark attendant would turn a blind eye (to what he'd done).他在残疾人专用区域停下了，希望停车场管理员会装作没看见。If you turn a deaf ear, you ignore what someone is asking you.不理睬，充耳不闻，置若罔闻His mother turned a deaf ear to his request for more money.他母亲对他要更多钱的要求置之不理。He didn't turn a hair (= did not seem surprised/worried) when we said it would cost ￡1, 000.当我们说那将花费1000英镑时, 他眉毛都没抬一下。The caretaker can turn his hand to anything (= is able to do many useful things).那个照看者能够做任何事。If something turns someone's head, it has an influence on how they behave, esp. by making them too proud.使某人骄傲自满，使某人头脑发热; 影响某人的思想; 使某人神魂颠倒Her success has never turned her head -- she's still the same simple unaffected girl she always was.她的成功从来没有使她头脑发热----她仍旧没变，还是那么单纯、率真。To turn something on its head is to cause it to be the opposite of what it was before.使…走向对立面; 颠倒These new findings turn the accepted theories on their head.这些新发现逆转了已被接受的理论。John would turn in his grave (= John, who is dead, would be upset) if he could see the way the new owner looks after the garden.如果约翰看到新主人照看花园的方式, 他在九泉之下也不会心安的。If someone turns on you, they attack you suddenly and unexpectedly.出人意外地突然袭击The mutinying soldiers turned on their officers and shot them all.哗变的士兵们突然袭击他们的军官, 并把他们全部射杀了。If you turn the other cheek, you do not do anything to hurt someone who has hurt you.（挨打后）将另一脸颊送上; 甘受侮辱She decided to turn over a new leaf (= start a new and better way of behaving) and give up smoking.她决定改过自新, 放弃抽烟。To turn the spotlight on someone or something is to attract attention to them, usually to give information about something bad.吸引注意力于…The documentary turned the spotlight on the low wages paid to manual workers.纪录影片将视点聚焦于付给体力劳动者的低工资上。When you turn the tables on someone, you are able to change from being in a weaker position to being in a stronger position in relation to someone else.扭转局面，转为占上风He turned the tables on his opponents by publishing letters which showed they had criminal connections.通过披露对手们与犯罪有关的信件, 他扭转了对自己不利的局面。As soon as they saw we had guns, they turned tail (= turned round) and ran away.一看到我们有枪, 他们转身就跑了。To turn to someone or something is to ask them for or use them as help or support.求助于; 求教于; 查阅Without someone to turn to for advice/help/guidance, making the most appropriate choice can be difficult.如果得不到他人的忠告/帮助/指导的话, 往往难以作出最合适的选择。Her family lived a long way away, and she had no one to turn to.她的家庭住得很远, 她没人可求助。In stressful situations, he tended to turn to drink.在不顺心的处境中, 他往往借酒浇愁。If you turn somewhere upside down, you search everywhere for something, sometimes leaving the place very untidy.翻箱倒柜; （因搜查）使变得杂乱无章The burglars turned the house upside down but they didn't take much.窃贼们将屋子翻了个底朝天, 但他们没拿走多少东西。I couldn't find those photos, although I turned the place upside down.虽然我把那个地方翻得横七竖八, 但我仍找不到那些照片。A turning point is the time at which a situation starts to change in an important way.转折点，转机ASH, the anti-smoking group, called the new regulations a turning point in the campaign against smoking.反抽烟组织ASH称这些新法令是禁烟运动的一个转折点。The turning point in her political career came when she was chosen to fight a crucial by-election.她政治生涯的转折出现在她被选择投入关键性的补缺选举的较量中。A turn-off is a road which leaves another road to go in a different direction.支路，岔道It's 4 km to the turn-off for Norwich/the Norwich turn-off.还有4公里就是去诺里奇的岔道。[TURN 中的turn-off]Turn signal is Am for indicator.转弯示向灯，方向灯; 转弯指示器 [INDICATE ][TURN AROUND; TURN DOWN; TURN OUT; TURN OVER; TURN UP.]
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