spin

• vi. 旋转；纺纱；吐丝；晕眩
• vt. 使旋转；纺纱；编造；结网
• n. 旋转；疾驰

来自古英语 spinnan,纺纱，织线，来自 Proto-Germanic*spenwan,弯，转，纺织，来自 PIE*spen, 弯，转，纺织，词源同 spider,spinner.引申诸相关词义。

1. a swift whirling motion (usually of a missile)

2. the act of rotating rapidly;

"he gave the crank a spin"

"it broke off after much twisting"

3. a short drive in a car;

"he took the new car for a spin"

4. rapid descent of an aircraft in a steep spiral

5. a distinctive interpretation (especially as used by politicians to sway public opinion);

"the campaign put a favorable spin on the story"

spin

spin: [OE] Spin is a general Germanic word, with relatives in German and Dutch spinnen, Swedish spinna, and Danish spinde. It goes back ultimately to a prehistoric Indo-European base *spen- or *pen- ‘stretch’ which also produced English span, Lithuanian pinti ‘plait’, and Old Church Slavonic peti ‘stretch’. English words derived from it or its immediate Germanic ancestor include spider, spill ‘slip of wood’, spindle [OE], and spinster [14] (originally a ‘female spinner’, and not used as a designation of an unmarried woman until the 17th century).
=> spider, spill, spindle, spinster

spin (v.)

Old English spinnan (transitive) "draw out and twist fibers into thread," strong verb (past tense spann, past participle spunnen), from Proto-Germanic *spenwan (cognates: Old Norse and Old Frisian spinna, Danish spinde, Dutch spinnen, Old High German spinnan, German spinnen, Gothic spinnan), from PIE *spen-wo-, from root *(s)pen- "to draw, stretch, spin" (cognates: Armenian henum "I weave;" Greek patos "garment," literally "that which is spun;" Lithuanian pinu "I plait, braid," spandau "I spin;" Middle Welsh cy-ffiniden "spider;" see span (v.)).

Intransitive senses of "to form threads from fibrous stuff; to twist, writhe" developed in late Old English. Transitive sense of "cause to turn rapidly" is from 1610s; intransitive meaning "revolve, turn around rapidly" first recorded 1660s. Meaning "attempt to influence reporters' minds after an event has taken place but before they have written about it" seems to have risen to popularity in the 1984 U.S. presidential campaign; as in spin doctor, first attested 1984.

spin (n.)

1831, "a rapid revolving motion," from spin (v.). Meaning "fairly rapid ride" is from 1856. Sense of "a twisting delivery in throwing or striking a ball" is from 1851. Sense in physics is from 1926. Meaning "act of playing a phonograph record" is from 1977. Meaning "influence imparted by a media source" is from 1984.

rotate, revolve, roll, spin, turn, whirl, circle

这些动词均有"转动，旋转"之意。

rotate： 侧重指物体围绕自己的轴或中心旋转，即自转。

revolve： 强调指物体围绕本身以外的中心旋转，即公转。

roll： 指某物在平面上滚动或翻滚。

spin： 指沿内轴迅速而连续旋转，或沿外部一个点作快速圆周运转。

turn： 普通用词，中性，含义不确切，可指作一个圆周运动或连续地作圆周运动，也可指仅是沿圆的弧形转动。

whirl： 指旋转或作圆周运动，侧重急速或力量。

circle： 指作圆周运动。

The boot time is pretty fast, and he navigates through (浏览 ) a few chapters before swiping into a fully rendered 3D molecule that can be spun around to view its various building blocks.

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No wonder parents worry their own kids might spin out of control once they hit the turbulent waters of adolescence.

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Amy, my head is spinning! It must be a touch of the sun.

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They all share a common addiction—food that is not just spicy, but not enough to make your mouth burn, your head spin and your eyes water.

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The plane was spinning out of control.

飞机失去控制，不停地旋转。

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a spinning ice skater

做旋转动作的溜冰者

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My head is spinning (= I feel as if my head is going around and I can't balance) .

我觉得天旋地转。

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to spin a ball/coin/wheel

转动球 / 硬币 / 轮子

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He spun around to face her.

他猛地回过身来，面对着她。

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She sat by the window spinning.

她坐在窗前纺线。

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to spin and knit wool

纺毛线织毛活

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spinning silk into thread

把蚕丝纺成线

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a spider spinning a web

结网的蜘蛛

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They went spinning along the roads on their bikes.

他们骑自行车沿公路疾驰。

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An aide was already spinning the senator's defeat as ‘almost as good as an outright win ’.

一名助手已经开始将那位参议员的失败描述成“几乎是大获全胜”。

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products spinning off from favourite books

从一些畅销书衍生出的产品

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The transportation operation will be spun off into a separate company.

运输部门将脱离出来组建为一家独立公司。

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the earth's spin

地球的自转

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the spin of a wheel

轮子的转动

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Give the washing a short spin.

把洗过的衣服稍稍甩一下。

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Let's go for a spin .

咱们兜风去。

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She puts a lot of spin on the ball.

她打出的球旋转得很厉害。

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a spin bowler (= in cricket , a bowler who uses spin)

投旋转球的板球投球手

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The latest discs, used for small portable computers, spin 3600 times a minute...

用在小型便携式计算机上的最新光盘转速为每分钟 3,600 转。

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The Earth spins on its own axis...

地球绕着地轴自转。

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Just spin the washing and it's nearly dry.

只需要将洗好的衣物脱水，它就差不多干了。

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My head was spinning from the wine...

我喝了葡萄酒后晕乎乎的。

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All those figures make my poor head spin.

那么多数字把我搞得头昏脑胀。

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He interpreted the vote as support for the constitution and that is the spin his supporters are putting on the results today.

他把这次投票解释为对宪法的支持，这也是他的支持者对今天的投票结果所作的解释。

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...the wholly improper political spin given to the report, particularly by The New York Times.

报道中带有的根本不恰当的政治倾向，特别是《纽约时报》的报道

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The public is sick of spin and tired of promises. It's time for politicians to act.

公众厌烦了那些有倾向性的报道和种种许诺。该是用政绩说话的时候了。

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He was surprised, and annoyed that she had spun a story which was too good to be condemned as a simple lie.

他很惊讶，也很生气，因为她编的故事太真实了，甚至不能被斥为一个简单的谎言。

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Michelle will also spin a customer's wool fleece to specification at a cost of $2.25 an ounce.

米歇尔也会按顾客的要求为其纺羊毛呢，每盎司收费 2.25 美元。

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Poor Jane was in rather a spin about the party.

可怜的简对这次聚会真有些不知所措。

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