around: [14] Around was formed in Middle English from the prefix a- ‘on’ and the noun round (perhaps influenced by the Old French phrase a la reonde ‘in the round, roundabout’). It was slow to usurp existing forms such as about – it does not occur in Shakespeare or the 1611 translation of the Bible – and it does not seem to have become strongly established before the end of the 17th century. The adverb and preposition round may be a shortening of around. => round
c. 1300, "in circumference," from phrase on round. Rare before 1600. In sense of "here and there with no fixed direction" it is 1776, American English (properly about). Of time, from 1888. To have been around "gained worldly experience" is from 1927, U.S. colloquial.
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1. On Sunday Cohen lay around the house all day.
科恩星期天一整天都在家无所事事。
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2. They were knocking around together for about a year.
他们交往大概有一年了。
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3. He had twined his chubby arms around Vincent's neck.
他胖乎乎的双臂搂住文森特的脖子。
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4. They were going to sail around the little island, against the tide.
他们打算绕着小岛逆潮航行。
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5. Albania is a small nation state of around 3 million people.
