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vt. 转动，使旋转；转弯；翻过来；兑换
vi. 转向；转变；转动
n. 转弯；变化
n. (Turn)人名；(德、匈)图恩

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You feel the same emotions – it is just as raw, just as fresh… You can't turn off that stream of memories, no matter how hard you try.

What could have been considered the beginning of a descent is now a potential turning point—the turning point you are most equipped to take full advantage of.

It is likely to be a critical turning point in one's life.

If you're training for a marathon, you wouldn't expect to turn up and just be able to run it.

Barbara Hagerty looks at some of the features of people who turn midlife into a rebirth.

The boat, traveling between Nicaragua’s Big Corn Island and LittleCorn Island turned over Saturday near the larger island.

And when looking at angry humans, they tended to turn away their gaze.

A tour boat turned o v e r o f f t h e c o a s t o f Nicaragua, killing at least 13 people and leaving more passengers missing, official said.

This danger can be avoided, according to computer science professor Stuart Russell, if we figure out how to turn human values into a programmable code.

I think what Aesop was suggesting is that when you offer a good turn to another human being, one can hope that that good deed will come back and sort of pay a profit to you, the doer of the good deed.

Examine your lifeSoupios, along with his co-author Panos Mourdoukoutas, developed their 10 golden rules by turning to the men behind that philosophy—Aristotle, Socrates, Epictetus and Pythagoras, among others.

But perhaps they don't have to turn themselves into private investigators or Congressional subcommittees.

When turning work into a game, it is necessary to understand what makes games interesting.

The platforms that are most effective turn employees' ordinary job tasks into part of a rich adventure narrative.

Increasingly, companies are tapping into these desires directly through what has come to be known as gamification: essentially, turning work into a game.

For them, the right kind of gamification might be turning their sales pitches into a competition with other team members, complete with a digital leaderboard showing who is winning at all times.

Cracker Jacks has been gamifying its snack food by putting a small prize inside for more than 100 years, he adds, and the turn-ofthe- century steel magnate ( ' , 巨头) Charles Schwab is said to have often come into his factory and written the number of tons of steel produced on the past shift on the factory floor, thus motivating the next shift of workers to beat the previous one.

But as it turns out, waiters see only a tiny bump in tips when they do an exceptional job compared to a passable one.

In turn, we get the needed services.

When good students turn in an essay, they dream of their instructor returning it to them in exactly the same condition, save for a single word added in the margin of the final page: Flawless.

They are deprived of chances to turn over a new leaf.

Bad school conditions make it all the more important to turn learning into a joyful experience.

About the same time as AlphaGo's triumph, microsoft's 'chatbot' took a bad turn.

All I have to do is turn on the TV.

Children of educated and upper-middle-class parents turn out to be far more curious, even at early ages, than children of working class and lower class families.

Digital learning systems now charge students for access codes needed to complete coursework, take quizzes, and turn in homework.

I really want to lose some of these belly fat and turn it into muscle, but I'm not sure which of the gym equipment would best help.

It's pointless unless there is a repeatable process in place to turn inspiration into financial performance.

Late November and December saw early snow and bone-chilling temperatures in much of the country, part of a year when, for the first time in two decades, record-cold days will likely turn out to have outnumbered record-warm ones.

More productive farmers meant there was a surplus that could feed cities; in turn, that created a pool of labour for factories.

Sarina Harper, a 19-year-old student at virginia Tech, was faced with a tough dilemma when she first started college in 2015—pay rent or pay to turn in her chemistry homework.

The New York State parks system wants to turn off the falls on the American side some time in the next two to three years to replace two 115-year-old stone bridges that allow pedestrians, park vehicles and utilities access to Goat Island.

They engage college undergraduates to teach computer science to high school students, who in turn instruct middle school students on the topic.

They may not happen as quickly as you'd like them to, and they may turn out to be completely different from the special things you imagined at the beginnings but they will happen.

This turn of events is fueled primarily by the dramatic drop in the share of young Americans who are choosing to settle down romantically before age 35.

This turn of events is fueled primarily by the dramatic drop in the share of young Americans who are choosing to settle down romantically before age.

This, in turn, has a major effect on their diet, leading scientists to speculate that the ability to learn population-specific hunting methods could be driving the animals' genetic development.

Young adults with a college degree have fared much better in the labor market than their less-educated counterparts, which has in turn made it easier to establish their own households.

At a time when young beauty shoppers are often turning to Sephora or Ulta instead of department store beauty counters, Macy's hopes Bluemercury will help strengthen its position in the category.

We have everything to gain by encouraging them to explore the world beyond their immediate experience and to prepare themselves for their turn at shaping that world.

Thoughts turn first to some sort of global statistic, some indicator which would rate the wealth of nations in both economic and environmental terms and show a relationship between the two.

They seem to be turning inward—generally in a pro-social manner, certainly with positive benefits for intimate relationships, but too often at the expense of a connection with the present and future world beyond, including the society they will one day inherit.

Teenagers of today often turn to their parents for advice on such important matters as career choice.

Some are turning to the Internet, which is cheaper and offers concrete measurements like click-through rates— especially important at a time when marketing budgets are tight.

Protecting the union demand sacrifices those students, in effect turning a blind eye to the injustice in the education system.

It turns out today's teenagers aren't so scary after all.

It turned out that Watson and Venter shared fewer variations in their genetic sequences than they each shared with Kim.

It might turn out to be a prosumer.

And early identification, support and treatment for mental health issues, he says, are the best ways to keep them from turning into full-blown disorders.

We can’t expect kids to turn off that admiration when the same person is selling sugar.

If children are turning to athletes as role models, it’s in their best interest if their idols are consistent.

We get distracted before we can turn down the heating.

No matter how hard you try, you can't turn something that large on a dime ( ' , 10 美分硬币 ),or even a few thousand dimes.

"This study shows the importance of so-called non-cognitive' or soft skills in contributing to children's positive peer relationships, which, in turn, contribute to their academic success,"said Kenneth Dodge, director of the Duke Center for Child and Fami

A global campaign has been launched to turn a huge tract of Antarctic seas into ocean sanctuaries, protecting wildlife and banning not just krill fishing, but all fishing.

And although anxious parents may not welcome the notion, educators could turn adolescent recklessness to academic ends.

I still think that your idea is great and that you would turn it into a phenomenal success.

In turn, feeling close to objects can alleviate loneliness.

It involved skiing with his legs apart for better balance and sitting back on the skis when he came to a turn.

It may not have been ladylike to depict a giant spider devouring a hummingbird, but when Merian did it at the turn of the 18th century, surprisingly, nobody objected.

No matter how hard you try, you can't turn something that large on a dime, or even a few thousand dimes.

Our attitudes allow us to turn mistakes into opportunities, and loss into the chance for new beginnings.

Recently though, I turn my photography hobby into a small business.

She suggests downloading the Instant or Moment apps to see how many times you turn on your phone each day.

The liquid is maintained above its melting point until steam is required, at which point the liquid is allowed to turn back into a solid, releasing its stored energy.

Then when the person doesn't turn out to be who they thought he or she was, they start thinking "Maybe I can change him or her".

They all wanted to turn around and go home! You know, back to teabags and fish and chips.

When heated, these materials turn from a solid into a liquid, absorbing energy as they change phase.

While the candle is being lit, a principle is recited; then each person present takes a turn to speak about the importance that principle has to himself or herself.

As a result, in the last twenty years or so, many people have come to believe that whatever change is happening today is the result of great technological progress, going against which will be like trying to turn the clock back.

As it turned out, their initial judgments often held true.

At Pullman's signal, each man turned his Jackscrew the same amount at the same time, thereby raising the building slowly and evenly.

But in some waters, such as those of the Arctic, a warming will make conditions riper for phytoplankton, and these areas will turn greener.

But recently it has discovered that data can be turned into new services: translation and visual recognition, to be sold to other companies.

But what starts as fun usage of apps turns into tremendous pressure in real social media interaction at secondary school.

Com turns the page on the traditional idea of a book group.

Data can be turned into new services or products.

Don't let gossip turn into lies.

Eventually, the couple found that their bodies turned for the better, with re-found strong muscles that they.

Finally, dad turned off the stove, the pot began to cool and the pressure relief valve sprayed out a cloud of steam.

Food in small pieces could be eaten easily with twigs which gradually turned into chopsticks.

Heading back downtown toward her hotel, her big-city friends were amazed at the turn of events that had changed their big apple dinner into a Mississippi state reunion.

Her owner Mike Holden panicked and celled the coastguard of Cornwall, who turned up in seconds.

Here are some ways to turn your home into part of your diet plan.

However, a similar study of British accents in the US turned these results upside down and placed some regional accents as the most attractive and BBC english as the least.

However, anger can easily turn violent, and it is best to know the reasons for anger to appear in order to prevent its presence.

I absent-mindedly turned the pages of the phone book and came across a city map.

I did read my newspaper out loud on a train, and it turned out well.

I thought, "why don't they just try rolling the things" a square could be turned into a rough sort of wheel by attaching wooden poles to its sides, he realized.

I turned around and saw a pleasant woman with a big smile on her face waving to wish me a safe trip.

I would be a different person if my mom hadn't turned a silly bicycle accessory into a life lesson I carry with me today.

I would excitedly turn the tap on and brush the comb carefully.

If you like, a squeeze of fresh lemon juice on the bananas will prevent them turning brown.

If you need some help slowing down, turning on relaxing music.

I'm sure your missing glasses will turn up sooner or later.

It involved Pullman turning ten Jackscrews.

It turned out that among other things, he was an eighty-year-old writer.

It turns out that baby red-backed fairy wrens also emerge chirping like their moms.

It turns out that just looking at green,growing things can reduce stress,lower blood pressure,and put people into a better mood.

It will be turned into a museum.

Last week some city officials suggested the city might be interested in turning the old theater into a museum and public meeting place.

Much to the family's surprise, Dennis stuck to his promise! He turned up at the hospital bearing gifts for the new mother lindsey and her baby boy.

Newly-built wooden cottages line the street, turning the old town into a dreamland.

On October 29, 2012, that ocean turned fierce.

Once they arrive, the tables are turned.

Open the curtains and turn up the lights.

Pahlsson and her husband searched the kitchen, checking every corner, but turned up nothing.

Scientists have also turned to nonhumans to increase understanding of attraction.

She has turned down several invitations to star at shows in order to concentrate on her studies after school she plans to take a year off to model full time before going to university to get a degree in engineering or architecture.

She turned out to be a top student after coming to this school.

So that's what I did, and it turned out dad was right.

That action turned the block into somewhat a wheel.

The book turns out to be one that has appealed to the world for more than 350 years.

The girls on the wesleyan academy softball were waiting for their next turns at bat during practice, stamping their feet to stay warm, eighth-grader Taylor bisbee shivered a little as she watched her teammate Paris white play.

The idea is that white coats are associated with scientists, who are in turn though to have close attention to detail.

The intelligent transport team at newcastle university have turned an electric car into a mobile laboratory named "drivelab" in order to understand the challenges faced by older drivers and to discover where the key stress points are.

The late musician Dennis brian is said to have asked a fellow train passengers to turn off his radio.

The link between what the men had done as boys and how they turned out as adults was surprisingly sharp.

The man should turn down the job offer.

The morson company turned down my application.

The researchers also found that IQ and family social and economic class made no real difference in how the boys turned out.

The species they indirectly attack will turn into top predators.

The story came to its turning point when Joe fell ill in 2007.

The story once again tells us that one good turn deserves another.

The yellow and orange stone fruits such as peaches are high in the carotenoids we turn into vitamin a and which are antioxidants.

Their victory in America was still remembered as a major turning point in the history of Rock and Roll.

They find that customers make decisions in the first few seconds upon walking in the door, and turn it into a business opportunity.

This same experience was repeated until each family member had a turn.

Though pages were turned slowly, I got the main idea of the story about a dog who, like mine, had been separated from his family and who finally found his way back home.

To the author, it seemed to be a horrible turn of events that someone else had got a basket of the same kind.

Tom had to turn down the invitation to the party last weekend because he was too busy.

Turning one's life into a waiting game requires faith and hope, and is strictly for the optimists among us.

Turning up at school for practice hours before anyone else had to be there.

TV Ears has helped thousands of people with various degrees of hearing loss hear the television clearly without turning up the volume.

Unable to see far, he accidentally turned off the path.

We turned to each other for inspiration as we continued on the way to the peak.

When they die, they turn a non-transparent milky white.

When this happens, the important thing is to try not to let a calm discussion turn into a heated argument.

With any luck, he'll turn a few more heads in the process.

When the competitive environment pushed our ancestors to achieve that potential, they could in turn afford more education.

We are even farther removed from the unfocused newspaper review published in England between the turn of the 20th century and the eve of World War Ⅱ, at a time when newsprint was dirt-cheap and stylish arts criticism was considered an ornament to the publications in which it appeared.

For a social epidemic to occur,however,each person so affected,must then influence his or her own acquaintances,who must in turn influence theirs,and so on;and just how many others pay attention to each of these people has little to do with the initial influential.

Professionalism has turned the acquisition of a doctoral degree into a prerequisite for a successful academic career: as late as 1969 a third of American professors did not possess one.

Gilbert’s own interest in new music has been widely noted: Alex Ross, a classical-music critic, has described him as a man who is capable of turning the Philharmonic into “a markedly different, more vibrant organization”.

The hardest task that television asks of anyone is to turn the power off after he has turned it on.

Not only did they develop such a device but by the turn of the millennium they had also managed to embed it in a worldwide system accessed by billions of people every day.

Humans are unique in their capacity to not only make tools but then turn around and use them to create superfluous material goods - paintings, sculpture and architecture - and superfluous experiences - music, literature, religion and philosophy.

One of these urges had to do with creating a state of peace in the midst of turbulence, a “still point of the turning world,” to borrow a phrase from T.

The move turned out to be foresighted.

But the professional companies prospered in their permanent theaters, and university men with literature ambitions were quick to turn to these theaters as offering a means of livelihood.

We are still at the beginning of this revolution and small choices now may turn out to have gigantic consequences later.

A "town of culture" could be not just about the arts but about honoring a town's peculiarities-helping sustain its high street, supporting local facilities and above all celebrating its people and turn it into action.

But it has already sparked significant controversy, with the Unite Sates trade representative opening an investigation into whether the tax discriminates against American companies, which in turn could lead to trade sanctions against France.

Dr Kroo and his team modeled what would happen if three passenger jets departing from Los Angeles San Francisco and Las Vegas were to assemble over Utah,assume an inverted V-formation, occasionally change places so all could have a turn in the most favour

For a social epidemic to occur, however, each person so affected must then influence his or her own acquaintances, who must in turn influence theirs, and so on: and just how many others pay attention to each of these people has little to do with the initi

For the low-sympathy kids, how much they shared appeared to turn on how inclined they were to feel guilty.

Humans are unique in their capacity to not only make tools but then turn around and use them to create superfluous material goods—paintings, sculpture and architecture—and superfluous experiences—music, literature, religion and philosophy.

Obesity, in turn, can be divided into moderately obese, severely obese, and very severely obese.

Parks feature, particularly in the earlier works, such as John hilliard's very funny Across the Park, in which a long-haired stroller is variously smiled at by a pretty girl and unwittingly assaulted in a sequence of images that turn out to be different p

Rather than obsessing over the scale, turn your focus to how you look, feel how your clothes fit and your overall energy level.

since students and parents expect a college degree to lead a job, it is in the best interest of a school to turn out graduates who are as qualified as possible—or at least appear to be.

To avoid this uneasiness, we turn to our phones.

We are even farther removed from the unfocused newspaper reviews published in England between the turn of the 20th century and the eve of World War II, at a time when newsprint was dirt-cheap and stylish arts criticism was considered an ornament to the pu

You wish that you could turn back the clock and start over.