| 单词 | revolution |
| 释义 | Word family noun revolution revolutionary adjective revolutionary verb revolutionize Related topics: Politics, Sociologyrev·o·lu·tion /ˌrevəˈluːʃən/ ●●○ W3 AWL noun 1 [countable]CHANGE/BECOME DIFFERENT a complete change in ways of thinking, methods of working etc 〔思想、工作方式等的〕彻底变革，革命revolution in In the last ten years there has been a revolution in education. 近十年来，教育发生了巨大的变化。social/cultural/sexual etc revolution the biggest social revolution we have had in this country 我们国家所经历的最大的社会变革 the sexual revolution of the 1960s 20世纪60年代的性革命 → Industrial Revolution, the2 [countable, uncountable]PPSS a time when people change a ruler or political system by using force or violence 〔使用武力或暴力的〕革命 → revolt, rebellion the French Revolution of 1789 1789年法国大革命 The role of women has changed since the revolution. 革命以后妇女的角色已有改变。 The country seems to be heading towards revolution. 该国似乎在走向革命。 → counter-revolution3 TURN a) [countable, uncountable] a circular movement around something 旋转 → revolverevolution around the planets’ revolution around the Sun 行星围绕太阳的公转 b) TURN[countable] one complete circular spinning movement, made by something such as a wheel attached to a central point 旋转一周 → revolve a speed of 100 revolutions per minute 每分钟100转的转速 THESAURUSrevolt/rebellion/uprising an attempt by a large group of people at revolution 起义；反叛a popular uprising (=involving ordinary people, not the army) 民变coup /kuː/ an occasion when a group of people, especially soldiers, suddenly take control of a country ﹝尤指军人发动的﹞政变a military coup 军事政变Examples from the Corpusrevolution• The 1789 revolution marked the end of the French monarchy.• The shaft spins at 950 revolutions per minute.• Penicillin began a revolution in the treatment of infectious disease.• They argue that our schools are failing our children, and that the education system needs a revolution.• It needed not only a revolution in organisation but in technology too.• Einstein's General Theory of Relativity started a revolution in scientific thinking.• Abandoned by her family and deserted by her servants, Elena Petrescu was incapable of grasping that a revolution had happened.• This was a revolution in thought.• the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917• Just 12 days after the emperor's death, the country erupted into revolution.• The planet rotates in the same direction as its revolution around the sun.• The upheavals of the era tended to come together, one kind of revolution easily attaching itself to another.• Talk of revolution and counter-revolution has been banned from the rhetoric of the moment.• The Earth makes one revolution around the sun each year.• an era of rural unrest and peasant revolution• Trotsky was one of the leading figures in the Russian Revolution of 1917.• The 1970s saw the beginnings of a new technological revolution, based on microelectronics.• the technological revolution• Apple had gone off to start the revolution without Xerox.social/cultural/sexual etc revolution• Petrashevskii's proposal that merchants be allowed to buy populated estates hardly bespoke a passion for social revolution.• Primary schoolchildren from Cultural Revolution days seemed regimented - yet were encouraged to criticize their teachers.• Other social revolutions have bearing on the e-commerce applications.• On the other hand they were allowed to criticize their teachers, something unthinkable before the Cultural Revolution.• The crimes which everyone committed, he concludes, were caused by the Cultural Revolution.• During the Cultural Revolution, he was sent to the countryside to plant rice for two years.• It is about individual struggles with social revolution.From Longman Business Dictionaryrevolutionrev‧o‧lu‧tion /ˌrevəˈluːʃən/ noun [countable] a complete change in ways of thinking, methods of working etcrevolution inComputer technology has caused a revolution in working practices. —revolutionary adjectiverevolutionary advances in aircraft design → see also Industrial RevolutionOrigin revolution (1300-1400) Old French Latin revolutio, from revolvere; → REVOLVErev·o·lu·tion noun →THESAURUS1ChineseSyllable in methods Corpus thinking, of ways change complete a Business |
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