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圓;圓形;圓圈
A circle is a shape consisting of a curved line completely surrounding an area. Every part of the line is the same distance from the centre of the area.
例句
The flag was red, with a large white circle in the center...
旗子是紅色的，中央有個白色大圓圈。
I wrote down the number 46 and drew a circle around it.
我寫下46這個數字，又畫了個圓將它圈起來。
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圓形物;圓片;圓塊
A circle of something is a round flat piece or area of it.
例句
Cut out 4 circles of pastry.
切出四塊圓形油酥面餅。
...a circle of yellow light.
圓形黃光區
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一圈（物體或人）
A circle of objects or people is a group of them arranged in the shape of a circle.
例句
The monument consists of a circle of gigantic stones...
紀念碑由一圈巨石組成。
We stood in a circle holding hands.
我們站成一圈，手牽著手。
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VERB
包圍;圍繞;環繞
If something circles an object or a place, or circles around it, it forms a circle around it.
例句
This is the ring road that circles the city.
這是環繞市區的環路。
...the long curving driveway that circled around the vast clipped lawn.
圍繞著大片修剪過的草坪的長長的弧形車道
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VERB
(在上空)盤旋，繞圈子
If an aircraft or a bird circles or circles something, it moves round in a circle in the air.
例句
The plane circled, awaiting permission to land...
飛機在天上盤旋，等候著陸許可。
There were two helicopters circling around.
有兩架直升機在空中盤旋。
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VERB
圍繞…移動;繞著…轉圈
To circle around someone or something, or to circle them, means to move around them.
例句
Emily kept circling around her mother...
埃米莉圍著她媽媽轉個不停。
The silent wolves would track and circle them.
悄無聲息的群狼會跟蹤并包圍他們。
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VERB
在…上畫圈;將…圈起來
If you circle something on a piece of paper, you draw a circle around it.
例句
Circle the correct answers on the coupon below.
將下面參賽券上的正確答案圈出來。
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(指朋友或有相同興趣或職業的人組成的)圈子，界
You can refer to a group of people as a circle when they meet each other regularly because they are friends or because they belong to the same profession or share the same interests.
例句
He has a small circle of friends...
他的朋友圈子很小。
Alton has made himself fiercely unpopular in certain circles.
奧爾頓把自己搞得在某些圈子里極其不受歡迎。
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N-SING
(劇院、影院的)樓廳包廂
In a theatre or cinema, the circle is an area of seats on the upper floor.
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PHRASE
兜了一圈回到原地;循環
If you say that you have come full circle or have turned full circle, you mean that after a long series of events or changes the same situation that you started with still exists.
例句
We've come full circle and dark-blue jeans are once again the height of style.
風水輪流轉，時下最流行的又是深藍色牛仔褲了。
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在原地兜圈子;原地踏步;毫無進展
If you say that someone is going round in circles or around in circles, you mean that they are not achieving anything because they keep coming back to the same point or problem.