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HSK
to revolve around / to center on (an issue)
HSK 5
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *绕* | 绕* | *绕
to wind / to coil (thread) / to rotate around / to spiral / to move around / to go round (an obstacle) / to by-pass / to make a detour / to confuse / to perplex
HSK 5
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *绕* | 绕* | *绕
variant of 繞|绕, to rotate around / to spiral / to move around / to go round (an obstacle) / to by-pass / to make a detour
HSK 5
to take a circular (or circuitous) route / to do a circuit / (of a planet) to orbit / (of a sailor) to circumnavigate / to take a detour / to bypass
HSK 7-9
to surround / to circle / to revolve around
HSK 7-9
reverberates around the rafters (idiom); fig. sonorous and resounding (esp. of singing voice)
lit. to go on a long detour / fig. to speak vaguely around the topic without getting to the point / to beat about the bush
meandering and circuitous (idiom); to go around in circles and never get anywhere
to wind / to coil / to spool / to loop around / winding
to coil (around sth) / to twine / to weave (basketwork)
twisting and turning / involved and tricky
twisting / to twine / to wind / to pester / to bother
thorny issue / tricky case
tongue-twister
reverberates around the rafters for three days (idiom); fig. sonorous and resounding (esp. of singing voice)
(physics) to diffract
to go by a roundabout route / to take a detour / (medicine or civil engineering) bypass
hard to get one's mouth around / a tongue-twister
(of smoke from a chimney) to curl upward / (of a sound) to linger on
winding
to orbit the Earth
lit. to go on a long detour / fig. to speak vaguely around the topic without getting to the point / to beat about the bush
gastric bypass
reverberates around the rafters (idiom); fig. sonorous and resounding (esp. of singing voice)
to go for a walk around / (fig.) to speak in a roundabout way
turbulence (in fluid mechanics)
to detour / to bypass / to circumvent / to avoid / to wind around (of a road etc)
to go around in circles / to make a detour / (fig.) to beat about the bush
(children) run around parent's knees / fig. to stay to look after one's elderly parents
to run a long way around / fig. to speak vaguely around the topic without getting to the point / to beat about the bush
to curl up; to wind around
coil (in electric motor or transformer)
tricky / involved / to beat about the bush
to go the long way round / to take a circuitous route / (of a route) circuitous
to linger on / to hover / to encircle
vine / twining stem
to go around one time / to do a circuit
to live with one's parents, thus bringing them happiness (idiom)
to go for a walk around / fig. to speak in a roundabout way
to make a detour / to take the long route


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