v.动词
revolve around, revolve round, revolve on这组短语都是“绕…旋转”的意思，其区别是：
1. revolve around和revolve round都指绕外面某一点旋转或运行；revolve on指绕自身某一点旋转或运行。
2. 美国英语用revolve around；英国英语用revolve round。
revolve, circle, eddy, rotate, spin, swirl, turn, twirl, wheel这组词都是“作圆周运动”的意思，其区别是：
1. turn是本组词中最常用的词，不带感情色彩，一般可与本组其他所有词替换。
2. revolve，spin和twirl都既指绕外面某一点旋转或运行，也指绕自身某一点旋转或运行。revolve强调“有规律”；spin和twirl强调“迅速地”；twirl还强调轻快、灵巧、优美。rotate则只指绕自身某一点旋转，否则此物就不会运动。
3. eddy和swirl都指旋风或漩涡所做的或快或慢的圆周运动，也可用于包含着迂回或脱离主流的形势。swirl比eddy更强调迅速、流动、优雅的魅力。
4. circle和wheel都指作圆周运动，也指在弯弯曲曲或弧线状的路线上行进。circle含有为避开某物而绕行的意味；wheel还指转向一条弯弯曲曲或弧线状的新路线。
例如：
The dancer spun on his toes. 那舞蹈演员以足尖点地旋转身体。
Dancers can twirl round and round on one toe. 舞蹈演员能以一足尖点地不停地旋转。
The earth rotates once every 24 hours. 地球每24小时自转一次。
Smoke eddied from the chimney. 烟从烟囱里旋舞着冒出。
A gust of wind swirled bits of paper down the street. 一阵大风刮得碎纸片在大街上飞舞。
The ship has circled the cape. 船绕过好望角。
The seagulls were wheeling in the air above me. 海鸥正在我的上面盘旋。
rotate，revolve，roll，spin，turn，whirl，circle这些动词均有“转动、旋转”之意。
rotate侧重指物体围绕自己的轴或中心旋转，即自转。
revolve强调指物体围绕本身以外的中心旋转，即公转。
roll指某物在平面上滚动或翻滚。
spin指沿内轴迅速而连续旋转，或沿外部一个点作快速圆周运转。
turn普通用词，中性，含义广泛，根据搭配，可指作一个圆周运动或连续地作圆周运动，也可指仅是沿圆的弧形转动。
whirl指旋转或作圆周运动，侧重急速或力量。
circle指作圆周运动。
用作动词 v.
～+名词revolve business围着事业转revolve child围着孩子转revolve family围着家庭转revolve mother围着母亲转revolve pencil转动铅笔revolve problem思考问题～+副词revolve automatically自动旋转revolve ceaselessly不停地旋转revolve incessantly不停地旋转revolve periodically周期性地循环往复revolve perpetually不停地旋转revolve slowly慢慢转动～+介词revolve about围着…转动revolve around围着…转动revolve n one's mind反复地思考revolve round围着…转动
用作动词v.
revolve about v.+prep.
围绕着…旋转; 以…为核心 have (sth or sb as the middle point of its movement)
revolve about sb/sthTraffic is kept to revolve about an island in the middle of the area where the four roads meet.车辆都必须绕着十字路口当中的环岛行驶。
The earth revolves about the axis which joins the North and South Poles.地球绕着连接南北极的地轴旋转。
The South and North Pole are the two points at opposite ends of the earth, about which it revolves.南北极是地球绕之自转的两个相对的点。
revolve around v.+prep.
围绕着…旋转; 以…为核心 have (sth or sb as the middle point of its movement)
revolve around sb/sth/v-ingPlanets revolve around the sun.行星绕太阳运行。
The moon revolves around the earth.月球绕地球运动。
Copernicus reasoned that the earth revolved around the sun.哥白尼推论说地球围绕太阳转。
It takes approximately 365 and a quarter days for the earth to revolve around the sun.地球绕太阳1 周大约需要365 天。
He thinks the whole world revolves around him.他自以为整个世界都在围着他转。
You think the whole world revolves around you.你以为整个世界都以你为中心呢。
The trouble with John is that he thinks the world revolves around him.令约翰劳神的是他认为人人都要以他为核心。
A baby's life revolves mainly around its mother and father.婴儿的生活主要围着妈妈爸爸转。
The life of the home revolves around the mother.家庭生活以母亲为核心。
Her life revolves around her husband and three children.她的生活就是为着丈夫和三个孩子转。
She thinks the world revolves around her and her schedule.她以为全世界就以她和她的时间表为中心。
His whole life revolved around cars.他一生都在和汽车打交道。
His world view revolves around a battle between rich and poor.他的世界观环绕着贫富之争。
The discussion revolved around three topics.讨论围绕这三个话题进行。
The conversation revolved mainly round the problems of childcare.谈话围绕着儿童保育的问题。
All sorts of mad ideas revolved around my mind.各种疯狂的想法在我脑中盘旋。
Much of a dolphin's life revolves around finding and eating food.海豚生命的大部分时间用于觅食和进食。
revolve round v.+prep.
见revolve around条。
revolve on v.+prep.
围绕着…旋转; 以…为核心 have (sth or sb as the middle point of its movement)
revolve on sthMars takes longer to revolve on its axis than the earth.火星自转一周的时间比地球长。
Thus a wheel revolves on its axle.于是,轮子在轴上旋转。
The earth revolves both round the sun and on its axis.地球绕太阳公转又绕地轴自转。近义词 eddyspinturnswirltwirlwheelcirclerotatecentre ongo aroundmeditate onmove in orbit
用作动词v.
用作不及物动词
S+～+AWheels revolve.轮子能转动。
Huge wheels began to revolved slowly.巨大的轮子开始徐徐旋转。
Ideals revolved in her mind.她心中再三考虑这个问题。
用作及物动词
S+～+ n./pron.He revolved the pencil between his fingers.他转动着夹在手中的铅笔。
The plot of the play revolves the struggle between two women.剧本的情节主要围绕着两个妇女的斗争展开。
He revolved the main points in his mind.他脑子里反复思考这些重点。
I've revolved the problem in my mind, but I haven't yet come up with solution.这个问题我反复考虑过了，但还没有找出解决办法。
He wishes to revolve the problem before giving an answer.他希望等他将问题考虑成熟之后再作回答。
This disc can be revolved.这种盘状物可旋转。
The platform is revolved by a small electric motor.这讲台靠着一个小电动机转动。
The problem must be revolved before giving the answer.在回答这个问题之前,我们必须经过深思熟虑。其他He got stuck in a revolving door.他给旋转门困住了。
He spun the revolving door round and round.他把那个旋转门转了又转。
v.动词
revolve的基本意思是“旋转”,指某人或物以一个固定的点为中心,有规律地、不停地转动或处于转动的状态。也指不太重要的或次要的事物对重要的、主要的、起决定性作用的事物的依赖。可用作不及物动词，也可用作及物动词。用作及物动词时,后接名词或代词作宾语。可用于被动结构。用于比喻，revolve还可作“以…为中心，以…为主题”解。
revolve引申还可指人在头脑中“反复考虑”某事，相当于口语中的think over。可用作不及物动词，也可用作及物动词。用作不及物动词时，以某念头或计划等作主语，而以in sb's mind表示“在某人的头脑中”，意即“某念头等在头脑中徘徊”；用作及物动词时，以人作主语，以某物或计划等作宾语。不用于被动结构。
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用作动词The wheels began to revolve slowly.车轮开始慢慢转动。
My liferevolvesaround my job.我的工作是我生活的中心。 One cautionary tale about the perils of relying on a homogenous food source revolves around the humble potato.
关于依赖同质食物源的极大危险，有一个围绕马铃薯的警示故事。 yeeyan
The plot revolves around the traditional tale of the queen becoming jealous of Snow White's beauty and sending the huntsman to kill her.
该剧主要围绕原著童话中的情节展开：王后嫉妒白雪公主的美貌，因而派猎人追杀白雪公主。 hjenglish
The work in this phase revolves around feasibility and practicality of the implementation alternatives.
此阶段中的工作围绕着实现方案的可行性和实用性。 ibm
There's a monoculture in biomedical research that revolves around mice testing, Engber explains.
生物医学研究上的单一文化，围绕着老鼠进行测试恩贝解释说。 yeeyan
This involves tying you down to a bed while she forces you to pleasure her with your tongue; the entire scenario revolves around you worshipping her body and begging for her attention.
她幻想把你绑在床上，强迫你用舌头把她弄爽；这一幻想围绕着你欣赏她的身体并求得她的关注而展开。 yeeyan
Well, the concept revolves around the idea that the basic shell or infrastructure should provide the bare necessities: power, networking, management, a high-speed bus, cooling, and storage.
这个概念围绕一个理念，即基本外壳或基础架构应该提供一些基本需求：电源、联网、管理、一条高速总线、冷却设备、以及存储器。 ibm
A more sophisticated argument revolves around the equity risk- premium, the extra return investors should demand for holding shares.
一个更复杂的议题围绕在股权风险溢价，投资者持有股票应要求的额外回报。 ecocn
Data mining revolves around the data and, of course, all the algorithms that we've learned about have revolved around the data.
数据挖掘围绕此数据进行，当然所有我们已经学习过的这些算法也都是围绕此数据的。 ibm
Everything social revolves around conversations, and conversations often start with a story and move on to a question.
任何社交活动都围绕对话展开，而对话通常以故事开头，然后转向一个问题。 yeeyan
Galileo got it wrong. The earth does not revolve around the sun. It revolves around you and has been doing so for decades.
伽利略错了，地球并不是围绕着太阳转的，它是围绕这你转的，并且几十年来一直如此。 yeeyan
It is a sphere that revolves around the sun as part of an eight planet solar system.
它是一个球体，围绕着太阳运动，它是太阳系八大行星之一。 yeeyan
It revolves around a small centre where new mothers bring their children for pre-school education and information about nutrition and health.
它围绕着一个小的中心区，在这里，母亲可以带着孩子们来接受学前教育，获取营养卫生方面的信息。 ecocn
Love is when his world revolves around yours.
爱是他的世界围绕着你的。 blog.sina.com.cn
One big unknown revolves around the fact that, unlike other countries that have defaulted on their debts in the past, Greece does not have its own currency.
围绕这个事实有一点不能预知的是，不像过去其他国家出现的债务违约，希腊没有它自己的货币。 yeeyan
One important thing to note before we proceed to compare these two websites is that each company’s business revolves around different markets.
在这一比较开始前，我们应当注意到，这两家公司的业务是围绕着不同的市场展开的。 yeeyan
One of the corner cases that file systems have grappled with revolves around how journal file systems function.
比如围绕日志文件系统的工作方式，文件系统不得不应对日志出错的问题。 yeeyan
The entrance door revolves on a vertical central axis.
入口大门围绕着一个垂直中轴旋转。 yeeyan
The moon revolves around the earth in such a manner that it always faces the latter with the same side.
月球围绕地球运动的方式是这样的，即它始终以同一面朝着地球。 ebigear
The plot revolves around a college student in Shanghai.
此剧围绕一名上海的大学生展开。 yeeyan
The story revolves around an android who comes to the emotional realization that he is not a real person.
电影故事围绕一个机器人展开，他很难过地发现自己原来不是一个真正的人。 kekenet
This is Britain, where a whole way of life revolves around cups of tea. By their mugs and tea towels shall ye know them.
这就是英国，整个生活方式都围绕着杯茶，要通过他们的杯子和茶巾了解他们。 yeeyan