also roundtable, 1826 in reference to a gathering of persons in which all are accorded equal status (there being no head of a round table.) King Arthur's Round Table is attested from c. 1300, translating Old French table ronde (1155, in Wace's Roman de Brut).
雙語例句
1. It was just then that I chanced to look round.
就在那時(shí)，我恰好環(huán)顧了下四周。
來自柯林斯例句
2. I shivered and pulled my scarf more tightly round my neck.
我打了個(gè)寒戰(zhàn)，用圍巾把脖子圍得更緊了。
來自柯林斯例句
3. He tramped hurriedly round the lake towards the garden.
他匆匆地邁著沉重的步伐繞過湖邊向花園走去。
來自柯林斯例句
4. Stars appeared everywhere, spinning round and round, faster and faster.