Các tầng nghĩa / Phát âm
Around
variant of 繞|绕[rao4], to rotate around / to spiral / to move around / to go round (an obstacle) / to by-pass / to make a detour
Example Sentences
前面修路，我们要绕道走。
qián miàn xiū lù, wǒ men yào rào dào zǒu.
The road ahead is under construction, we have to take a detour.
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Related Words & Compounds
to bypass
to go by a roundabout route / to take a detour / (medicine or civil engineering) bypass
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
lit. to go on a long detour / fig. to speak vaguely around the topic without getting to the point / to beat about the bush
tongue-twister
hard to get one's mouth around / a tongue-twister
to run a long way around / fig. to speak vaguely around the topic without getting to the point / to beat about the bush
(children) run around parent's knees / fig. to stay to look after one's elderly parents
to go for a walk around / fig. to speak in a roundabout way
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