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輪;輪子;車輪
The wheels of a vehicle are the circular objects which are fixed underneath it and which enable it to move along the ground.
例句
The car wheels spun and slipped on some oil on the road.
路面上有些油，汽車車輪經過時直打滑。
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機輪
A wheel is a circular object which forms a part of a machine, usually a moving part.
例句
...an eighteenth century mill with a water wheel.
一個帶有水輪的18世紀磨粉機
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方向盤
The wheel of a car or other vehicle is the circular object that is used to steer it. The wheel is used in expressions to talk about who is driving a vehicle. For example, if someone is at the wheel of a car, they are driving it.
例句
My co-pilot suddenly grabbed the wheel...
我的副駕駛突然抓住了方向盤。
Curtis got behind the wheel and they started back toward the cottage...
由柯蒂斯開車，他們啟程返回小屋。
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汽車
People sometimes refer to a car as wheels .
例句
'Do you own a house?' — 'No. But I have wheels.'
“你有房嗎？”——“沒有，但我有車。”
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VERB
推(帶輪子的物體)
If you wheel an object that has wheels somewhere, you push it along.
例句
He wheeled his bike into the alley at the side of the house...
他把自行車推進了房子旁的小巷中。
They wheeled her out on the stretcher.
他們用擔架床把她推了出去。
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VERB
(動物、鳥禽等)轉圈，旋轉，盤旋
If something such as a group of animals or birds wheels, it moves in a circle.
例句
A flock of crows wheeled overhead.
一群烏鴉在頭頂上盤旋。
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VERB
(因驚訝、震驚或生氣)突然轉身
If you wheel around, you turn around suddenly where you are standing, often because you are surprised, shocked, or angry.
例句
He wheeled around to face her...
他突然轉過身來面對她。
She wheeled sharply and headed for the check-out counter.
她突然轉身，朝收銀臺走去。
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N-SING
(尤指多次發生相同的情形)命運之輪
You use wheel in expressions such as the wheel of fortune to refer to the changes that take place in life, especially when you are referring to the fact that the same situations occur more than once.
例句
The wheel of fortune will swing round again; in politics, it always does...
風水會輪流轉；在政治上，它總是如此。
In his view the wheel of history could not be turned back.
在他看來歷史的車輪不能倒退。
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N-PLURAL
(組織或系統的)運作方式
People talk about the wheels of an organization or system to mean the way in which it operates.
例句
He knows the wheels of administration turn slowly.
他知道行政機關辦事效率低。
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PHRASE
(各種影響、原因和行動交織在一起的)錯綜復雜的情況
If you say that there are wheels within wheels, you mean that there are a number of different influences, reasons, and actions which together make a situation complicated and difficult to understand.
例句
Our culture is more complex than he knows. Wheels within wheels.
我們的文化比他所知道的要復雜得多，相當龐雜。