ro·tate
verb/rəʊˈteɪt/
/ˈrəʊteɪt/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they rotate | /rəʊˈteɪt/ /ˈrəʊteɪt/ |
| he / she / it rotates | /rəʊˈteɪts/ /ˈrəʊteɪts/ |
| past simple rotated | /rəʊˈteɪtɪd/ /ˈrəʊteɪtɪd/ |
| past participle rotated | /rəʊˈteɪtɪd/ /ˈrəʊteɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form rotating | /rəʊˈteɪtɪŋ/ /ˈrəʊteɪtɪŋ/ |
- [intransitive, transitive] to move or turn around a central fixed point; to make something do this
（使）旋转，转动 - Stay well away from the helicopter when its blades start to rotate.
直升机的螺旋桨开始转动时，尽量离远点儿。 - rotate about/around something winds rotating around the eye of a hurricane
绕飓风风眼旋转的风 - rotate something Rotate the wheel through 180 degrees.
将方向盘转动 180 度。
Extra Examples- Make sure that the propellor can rotate freely.
确保螺旋桨能够旋转无碍。 - Once the starter motor is rotating, you should be able to get the car going.
一旦启动马达旋转，您就应该能够让汽车行驶。 - The blades of the fan rotated rapidly above her.
风扇的叶片在她上方快速旋转。 - The earth takes 24 hours to rotate on its axis.
地球自转一周需要24个小时。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadverb- quickly
- rapidly
- gently
- …
- allow something to
- around
- on
- through
- …
- Stay well away from the helicopter when its blades start to rotate.
- [intransitive, transitive] if a job rotates, or if people rotate a job, they regularly change the job or regularly change who does the job
（工作）由…轮值；（人员）轮换，轮值 - + adv./prep. The EU presidency rotates among the members.
欧盟主席一职由其成员国轮流担任。 - When I joined the company, I rotated around the different sections.
我加入这个公司时，轮换过几个不同的部门。 - rotate something We rotate the night shift so no one has to do it all the time.
我们轮流值夜班，这样就不会有人总是夜班了。
- + adv./prep. The EU presidency rotates among the members.
Word Originlate 17th cent.: from Latin rotat- ‘turned in a circle’, from the verb rotare, from rota ‘wheel’.