u-turns

英 [juː tɜːnz] 美 [juː tɜːrnz]

n.  (汽车等的)U形转弯，180度转弯; (政策、行为上令人尴尬的)彻底转变，180度大转变
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柯林斯词典

  1. N-COUNT U型转弯；180度转弯；掉头
    If you make a U-turn when you are driving or cycling, you turn in a half circle in one movement, so that you are then going in the opposite direction.
    1. Making a sharp U-turn, she headed back...
      她猛地掉转车头，往回开。
    2. Eventually, he turned off the main route and suddenly did a U-turn.
      最后，他驶离主道，来了一个急掉头。
  2. N-COUNT （政治家在政策、计划、行动方面的）180度大转弯，彻底转变
    If you describe a change in a politician's policy, plans, or actions as a U-turn, you mean that it is a complete change and that they made the change because they were weak or were wrong.
    1. ...a humiliating U-turn by the Prime Minister.
      首相极不光彩的180度大转变
    2. ...the U-turns he made on economic policy and pit closures.
      他在经济政策和煤窑关闭方面的那些180度大转变
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双语例句

  1. Discontent over tax rises previously broadly accepted in France has forced the government into a string of U-turns.
    对增税的不满迫使政府的一系列政策逆转，此前法国人普遍接受了增税措施。
  2. Unfortunately for the driver, this was not the ordinary white fencing that local governments in many Chinese towns install to discourage bad behavior by motorists, such as unexpected U-turns and abrupt lurches into oncoming traffic.
    对司机来说，很不幸的是，这并不是在中国很多城镇都可以看到的普通白色护栏。这种白色护栏主要是为了防止随意调头、突然驶入逆向车道等不良驾驶行为。
  3. The unions might also sense weakness in David Cameron, who has developed a reputation for policy U-turns.
    工会也可能感到卡梅伦的弱点，卡梅伦制定了一项大转变的政策来赢得声誉。
  4. It is like a one-way street with no U-turns.
    就好比是一条禁止掉头的单行道。
  5. Not many leaders can bear to perform their own U-turns.
    不是很多领导人有气量逆转自己的决定。
  6. And since many new things, perhaps most new things, turn out to be bad ideas, this means U-turns and embarrassments and all the other troubles that politicians and administrators dislike so intensely.
    而事实上，许多新事物，或者说大多数新事物，都不是什么好主意，这也就意味着政策反复和其他尴尬情形。政客和管理者对这些麻烦都深恶痛绝。
  7. Twice in the past year she has performed remarkable U-turns, and managed to persuade her party to follow her.
    过去一年，她曾两次做出惊人的政策大转变，并成功说服她所在的政党遵从她的决定。
  8. The course from our classroom discussion to a story to another story had so many u-turns and twists that you could never predict a thing.
    他的课就是故事课，从课堂讨论到他的故事，再到提问，然后又回到一个新故事。
  9. The prime minister stuck hard and fast to his policy of no U-turns in the government's economic plans.
    首相坚持他的政府的经济计划不能大变动的政策。
  10. – This sign indicates that u-turns are not allowed at the intersection where the sign is posted.
    这个标志说明在标志所在的路口不准掉头。
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