somersaults

英 [ˈsʌməsɔːlts]

美 [ˈsʌmərsɔːlts]

n.  滚翻; 空翻; 筋斗
v.  做滚翻; 做空翻
somersault的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• 筋斗；跟头
  If someone or something does asomersault, they turn over completely in the air.
• N-COUNT (态度、政策等的) 180 度转变，颠倒
  If you say that someone does asomersault, you mean that they change suddenly from having a particular opinion or policy about something to having a completely different opinion or policy.
  1. What worries some of us is that the Prime Minister may feel simply unable to do a somersault...
     使我们中间的一些人担心的是，首相也许觉得根本就无法做到180度的态度大转变。
  2. In the last 30 years, both sexes have performed a somersault in terms of expectations, roles and relationships.
     最近 30 年里，男性和女性在个人期望、社会角色和人际关系方面都发生了 180 度的大转变。
• VERB (一次或多次)翻筋斗
  If someone or somethingsomersaults, they perform one or more somersaults.
  1. His boat hit a wave and somersaulted at speed...
     他的船撞上了大浪，飞速地翻转着。
  2. I hit him back and he somersaulted down the stairs.
     我还手打了他，他顺着楼梯滚了下去。

双语例句

• The acroBat rushed out from Behind the curtain By turning somersaults.
  杂技演员翻着筋斗从幕后冲了出来。
• I had scored, I was doing my somersaults, but everyone was still.
  取而代之的是我觉得能踢球是十分重要的。
• Some of the children could turn somersaults.
  有些孩子能够翻筋斗。
• They were still doing wild acrobatics in the yard, turning somersaults and cartwheels.
  他们还在院子里一通杂耍，翻着跟头，玩着侧手翻。
• He is its victim and seems to spin like a wheel, turning over and over, as an acrobat does somersaults.
  他变成了爱情的俘虏，轮子一般地不断打转，活像个杂技演员在翻筋斗。
• I told you not to do somersaults, didn't I?
  我告诉过你不要翻筋斗了，是不是？
• He's going to go his seventh dive, the forward one and a half somersaults with half twist.
  他准备做他的第七个动作，向前翻腾一周半转体半周。
• Peggy showed off her new dancing steps and walter, not to be outdone in a matter of entertaining visitors, his prowess at handstands, cartwheels and backward somersaults.
  佩吉卖弄了她的舞步，而沃尔特在讨好观众方面也不甘示弱，就拿出了倒立、横翻筋斗和后翻筋斗的拿手好戏。
• A gymnast who performs rolls and somersaults and twists etc.
  表演翻筋斗和扭曲的体操运动员。
• He practised standing on his head and turning somersaults.
  他练习倒立和翻筋斗。