【around音标】 英[əˈraʊnd] 美[əˈraʊnd]
【单词释义】 around是什么意思：
prep.围绕；环绕；在附近；前后，左右；在…周围 adv.大约;在周围;四周;围绕；环绕
[单词分级] 中考英语词汇
【around形近词/近似词】
ground n.[U]地面，土地；基础
surround vt.包围，围绕，环绕 n.（物品的）边；外围物
foreground n. 前景；最显著的位置 v. 强调；突出
background n. 背景
playground n.操场；运动场；游乐场
round adj.圆形的；环形的；弧形的 adv.旋转；到处；在周围 prep.大约；绕过，环绕；在…四周
underground adj.地下的；秘密的
fairground n.露天市场；商品交易会场址；展销会场地；露天游乐场
【常用短语】
look around 游览；到处察看；到处寻找
put about/around/round 传播；散布
【近义词解析】
◇ 大约
about (adv. 大约)：表示实际数量可多可少或数值、尺寸等可大可小，也作 round about。
around (adv. 大约)：多用于非正式场合，常见于美国英语。也用作 around about。
approximately (adv. 大约)：多用于书面语，强调接近精确数值、数量、时间等，误差较小。
roughly ([专八/GRE]adv. 粗略地，大致上)：指按粗略估计，不强调十分接近精确数值。
【单词例句】
◇ He walked along a little while with Little Red Cap, then he said, "Little Red Cap, just look at the beautiful flowers that are all around us. Why don't you go and take a look?
於是它陪着小红帽走了一会儿，然后说：“小红帽，你看周围这些花多么美丽啊！干吗不回头看一看呢？还有这些小鸟，它们唱得多么动听啊！
---- Little Red Cap
◇ He circled around and around in the water like a wheel, craning his neck out into the air after them. Then he uttered the shriek so piercing and so strange that he was quite frightened by himself.
他在水上像一个车轮似地不停地旋转着，同时，把自己的颈项高高地向他们伸着，发出一种响亮的怪叫声，连他自己也吓着了。
---- The Ugly Duckling
◇ It was a very strange hole Alice was falling very slowly, and she had time to think and to look around her.She could see nothing below her because it was so dark.But when she looked at the sides of the hole,she could see cupboards and books and pictures on the walls.
这个兔子洞很奇怪。爱丽丝往下掉得很慢，来得及看看四周。下面很暗，她什么也看不清。但她看到洞壁上有小柜子、书和画儿。
---- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1)
◇ These bacteria and other microorganisms grow inside everyone's mouth, and form a claggy biofilm commonly known as dental plaque. It is made up of around 700 different species of bacteria, the second-greatest diversity in the human body after the gut, as well as a host of fungi and viruses.
这些细菌和其他微生物在每个人的口腔内生长，并形成称为牙菌斑的粘稠生物膜。它由大约700种不同的细菌组成，细菌多样性在人类体内仅次于肠道，还有大量的真菌和病毒。
---- How to properly brush your teeth
◇ They all rejoiced, falling around her neck and kissing her, and they loved her with all their hearts.
他们一个个喜出望外，搂着她的脖子，亲吻她，真心实意地爱她。
---- The Twelve Brothers
◇ She looked around and saw a frog. He was stretching his thick ugly head out of the water.
她四处看了一下，看到了一只青蛙，它那肥厚而又丑陋的脑袋正伸出水面。
---- The Frog Prince
◇ A legend has it that at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty (AD25-220), "Medical Saint" Zhang Zhongjing saved many people in Henan province from a typhoid epidemic and their ears' from being frostbitten around Start of Winter.
传说在东汉末年（公元25-220年），“医圣”张仲景在河南治好了很多伤寒病人，还让他们的耳朵在立冬之际免于生冻疮。
---- Start of Winter
◇ She wanted to avenge herself for not having been invited, and without greeting anyone or even looking at them she cried out with a loud voice, "In the princess's fifteenth year she shall prick herself with a spindle and fall over dead." And without saying another word she turned around and left the hall.
她对没有被邀请感到非常愤怒，她要对此进行报复，要献上她恶毒的咒语。所以她进来后就大声叫道：“国王的女儿在十五岁时会被一个纺锤弄伤，最后死去。”然后她一言不发地转过身离开了大厅。
---- Little Brier-Rose
◇ Her dirty garment and the handkerchief around her waist were badly in need of sending to a laundry.
她肮脏的衣服和腰间的手帕都急需送到洗衣店清洗。
◇ He wore an apron to prepare delicious cuisine for her. He also bought her a necklace and piles of flowers hoping that their receiver could turn around.
还穿上围裙为她做可口的菜肴，他甚至还给她买了项链和成堆的鲜花，希望它们的接受者能够回心转意。