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
U-turn的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT U型转弯；180度转弯；掉头
  If you make aU-turnwhen 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。
• 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 aU-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

双语例句

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• – 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。