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Definition of revolving door in English: revolving doornoun 1An entrance to a large building in which four partitions turn about a central axis. 旋转门 Example sentencesExamples - When they approached the revolving doors in the Department of Immigration building they watched open-mouthed as people smoothly passed through.
- The revolving door that moved quite slowly contained a very impatient female, as she humorously tiptoed along with the door.
- Presenting his back to Serena, Ethan walked through the revolving doors of the building and disappeared inside.
- Frank greeted Rex warmly as he approached the giant revolving door that led into the building.
- He found the right building and pushed through the revolving door.
- Wordlessly, he stepped through the revolving door and into the building.
- Patrick Bérubé translates high-altitude vertigo into dizzying photos put on the floor of two revolving doors at the entrance.
- Believe me, it's hard to make a classy, professional entrance to a company headquarters when you stumble in at half speed, holding up the ebb and flow of the building, before the revolving door spits you out into the full lobby.
- Follow the path around to the building with the revolving door, take the elevator four flights up, follow the hallway down and enter the second room on the right and watch me on the couch interviewing at Juilliard.
- One real estate developer, Mitsubishi Estate, has announced it decided not to use automatic revolving doors in new office buildings and is considering removing them from existing buildings.
- With another look upward Sautrem entered the building through the large revolving doors.
- After smearing the fake blood over the building, the activists then wedged themselves into a revolving door at lunchtime.
- The dominant axis runs between revolving doors at north-west and south-east corners, and, like the big space, it ascends the height of the building.
- Slamming the car door shut with a terrific bang, Daphne White lugs her shopping bags up to the hotel entrance, through the revolving doors, and over to the elevator.
- They start out, as I did, performing simple maneuvers with their dogs but quickly move on to more trying obstacles: escalators, revolving doors, airplanes.
- Winners can collect their tickets from the Daily Dispatch offices at the entrance closest to Station Street, through the revolving doors.
- Why did my ophthalmologist have to have such incredibly small revolving doors at the entrance to her office?
- She revolved around the revolving door 6 times before she finally stepped onto the pavement outside the hotel.
- The visitor, entering through the revolving doors of the North Building, is transported to the Shanghai of 60 years ago as he admires the white Italian marble floor and the copper-coloured chandeliers.
- Public venues in those countries have revolving doors or automatic doors to prevent heat escaping.
- 1.1 Used to refer to a situation in which the same events recur in a continuous cycle.
(指相同事件循环发生的情形)循环活动 many patients are trapped in a revolving door of admission, discharge, and readmission 许多病人陷入了入院、出院、再入院的怪圈里。 Example sentencesExamples - A selection policy alone will simply result in a revolving door syndrome many disadvantaged students selected, but very high dropout rates.
- This means short-time sentences for drug offenders and a revolving door style situation which returns them to our streets, unrepentant and back in business.
- At too many major corporations, diversity efforts represent a revolving door that either traps African Americans at the thresholds of their careers or ejects them from corporate America altogether.
- Thai governments and Bangkok's revolving door of governors have attempted to rid our high density urban areas of hawkers for decades.
- The policy of revolving door justice changed under Mayor Dinkins.
- She urged the provincial government to implement addiction treatment to end the revolving door cycle of women's incarceration.
- They will make the best use of the wide ice surface with speed, but Filc's strategy has to be basic so anyone passing through the roster's revolving door can quickly pick it up.
- So is homelessness for some a revolving door, hard to step out of the cycle?
- As she explained to The Law Report's Maria Tickle, she has come a long way since being released from her first stint behind bars, and finding herself stumbling through the revolving doors of the criminal justice system.
- The Salvation Army and Anglicare said the government had created ‘a revolving door charity operation’ where welfare recipients were cut off benefits and then sent to the charities for help.
- This revolving door kind of social work is surely valuable on an individual level, but it does not train leaders, build organization, or help the poor to lift themselves from poverty.
- But there is more to Renoir's work here than revolving door love affairs, excellent compositions, and artistic editing.
- It is a revolving door situation that this Government is not getting on top of at all.
- The attorney general of British Columbia recently announced he was forming a committee to look for solutions to the revolving door situation in the criminal courts.
- Unless they're going to lock up drunks and throw away the key, such a policy will simply create a revolving door situation, with as many itinerant alcoholics being released from prison at any given time as are being locked up.
- The team used seven starters in right in 2000, and the revolving door could continue.
- Israel wants to make sure that no revolving door situation takes place here with those men being allowed to walk free as soon as Israel gives its order for the troops to leave.
- The dizzying pace of this financial revolving door is the essence of globalization's entanglements.
- Our prison has for too long been a warehouse for criminals, another revolving door which sees the same people coming in and going out, often worse than when they entered.
- The World Class Athlete Program is a revolving door, meaning all athletes must continue to show progress to stay in.
- 1.2usually as modifier An organization that people tend to enter and leave very quickly.
人们出入频繁的场所(或组织) the newsroom became a revolving-door workplace 新闻编辑室成了人们出入繁忙的场所。 Example sentencesExamples - His durability will stop the revolving door at the position, and he will provide pop in the bottom of the order.
- In many cases, a revolving door approach to higher administration on select campuses has hampered our colleagues, and colleges and or schools from achieving collective goals.
- With four culture ministers in as many years, Lee used the revolving door of executive changes to his advantage, making use of his trademark ‘controlled rages’ to maintain Scottish Screen's course.
- Journalists emerging through the revolving door of sackings and resignations that have characterised the title for several weeks now, bear tales of an organisation that is riven with internal strife.
- A revolving door at the top has resulted in four presidents over five years.
- Most businesses can't afford that sort of revolving door operation.
- Confidantes are a more precious commodity than ever, in part because the CEO position has become a revolving door.
- And they wondered what the usual distribution of responsibility might be, particularly in a chain-ownership era when the publishers office sometimes seems to have a revolving door.
- Aware of the challenge of making college a real option for nontraditional students, LaGuardia was determined to find new ways to keep the open door from being a revolving door.
- The European governments of the 1920s were like revolving doors, forever changing and with little sense of persistent direction.
- When she took over a Saturday morning job on CBS, a lot of people talked about revolving doors.
- It revolves around the world's second largest auto maker and the continually revolving door at the executive suite.
- Why should Pistons fans believe the hiring of new coach Rick Carlisle will stop the revolving door at the position?
- He points out that the leadership has become a revolving door as four chiefs have come and gone since 1997.
- Who do you want to knight you, one of Italy's revolving door leaders?
- In light of the recent revolving door at the position, it's tempting to attribute Anderson's accomplishments to Shanahan's offensive system and Gibbs' offensive line.
- A revolving door of ‘heroic’ managers try continually to ‘fix’ this company.
- Moyes had claimed at his unveiling that he wanted to bring some stability to the club after the revolving door transfer policy of the last few years, but these hopes were dashed with the abrupt departure of Paul Gascoigne to Burnley.
- This revolving door concept hampered any chance of building sustained chemistry and camaraderie between the players and thereby undermined team play.
- The revolving door continues for commissioners, too.
- 1.3US Used to refer to a situation in which someone moves from an influential government position to a position in a private company, or vice versa.
〈主美〉从政府要职到私营公司任职的转换(或反之) the revolving door between the administration and private lobbying firms Example sentencesExamples - The industry-to-government revolving door, which has brought many meat industry insiders inside USDA, has weakened public health, also, the newspaper reports.
- Instead of a revolving door, there should be a steel wall between Wall Street and Washington.
- Critics decry this revolving door between industry and government.
- Think tanks can provide a revolving door for individuals to move in and out of government.
- However, it would be much more difficult for the revolving door of lobbying and the military industrial complex to make multi-millionaires of generals and politicans.
Definition of revolving door in US English: revolving doornounrəˈvɑlvɪŋ ˈdɔ(ə)r 1An entrance to a large building in which four partitions turn about a central axis. 旋转门 Example sentencesExamples - He found the right building and pushed through the revolving door.
- One real estate developer, Mitsubishi Estate, has announced it decided not to use automatic revolving doors in new office buildings and is considering removing them from existing buildings.
- Slamming the car door shut with a terrific bang, Daphne White lugs her shopping bags up to the hotel entrance, through the revolving doors, and over to the elevator.
- Why did my ophthalmologist have to have such incredibly small revolving doors at the entrance to her office?
- Frank greeted Rex warmly as he approached the giant revolving door that led into the building.
- Patrick Bérubé translates high-altitude vertigo into dizzying photos put on the floor of two revolving doors at the entrance.
- Presenting his back to Serena, Ethan walked through the revolving doors of the building and disappeared inside.
- They start out, as I did, performing simple maneuvers with their dogs but quickly move on to more trying obstacles: escalators, revolving doors, airplanes.
- Public venues in those countries have revolving doors or automatic doors to prevent heat escaping.
- Wordlessly, he stepped through the revolving door and into the building.
- Believe me, it's hard to make a classy, professional entrance to a company headquarters when you stumble in at half speed, holding up the ebb and flow of the building, before the revolving door spits you out into the full lobby.
- She revolved around the revolving door 6 times before she finally stepped onto the pavement outside the hotel.
- Winners can collect their tickets from the Daily Dispatch offices at the entrance closest to Station Street, through the revolving doors.
- The dominant axis runs between revolving doors at north-west and south-east corners, and, like the big space, it ascends the height of the building.
- With another look upward Sautrem entered the building through the large revolving doors.
- When they approached the revolving doors in the Department of Immigration building they watched open-mouthed as people smoothly passed through.
- After smearing the fake blood over the building, the activists then wedged themselves into a revolving door at lunchtime.
- The revolving door that moved quite slowly contained a very impatient female, as she humorously tiptoed along with the door.
- Follow the path around to the building with the revolving door, take the elevator four flights up, follow the hallway down and enter the second room on the right and watch me on the couch interviewing at Juilliard.
- The visitor, entering through the revolving doors of the North Building, is transported to the Shanghai of 60 years ago as he admires the white Italian marble floor and the copper-coloured chandeliers.
- 1.1 Used to refer to a situation in which the same events or problems recur in a continuous cycle.
(指相同事件循环发生的情形)循环活动 many patients are trapped in a revolving door of admission, discharge, and readmission 许多病人陷入了入院、出院、再入院的怪圈里。 Example sentencesExamples - This means short-time sentences for drug offenders and a revolving door style situation which returns them to our streets, unrepentant and back in business.
- At too many major corporations, diversity efforts represent a revolving door that either traps African Americans at the thresholds of their careers or ejects them from corporate America altogether.
- Unless they're going to lock up drunks and throw away the key, such a policy will simply create a revolving door situation, with as many itinerant alcoholics being released from prison at any given time as are being locked up.
- A selection policy alone will simply result in a revolving door syndrome many disadvantaged students selected, but very high dropout rates.
- Israel wants to make sure that no revolving door situation takes place here with those men being allowed to walk free as soon as Israel gives its order for the troops to leave.
- The attorney general of British Columbia recently announced he was forming a committee to look for solutions to the revolving door situation in the criminal courts.
- The dizzying pace of this financial revolving door is the essence of globalization's entanglements.
- The team used seven starters in right in 2000, and the revolving door could continue.
- The Salvation Army and Anglicare said the government had created ‘a revolving door charity operation’ where welfare recipients were cut off benefits and then sent to the charities for help.
- The World Class Athlete Program is a revolving door, meaning all athletes must continue to show progress to stay in.
- Thai governments and Bangkok's revolving door of governors have attempted to rid our high density urban areas of hawkers for decades.
- The policy of revolving door justice changed under Mayor Dinkins.
- They will make the best use of the wide ice surface with speed, but Filc's strategy has to be basic so anyone passing through the roster's revolving door can quickly pick it up.
- Our prison has for too long been a warehouse for criminals, another revolving door which sees the same people coming in and going out, often worse than when they entered.
- As she explained to The Law Report's Maria Tickle, she has come a long way since being released from her first stint behind bars, and finding herself stumbling through the revolving doors of the criminal justice system.
- She urged the provincial government to implement addiction treatment to end the revolving door cycle of women's incarceration.
- It is a revolving door situation that this Government is not getting on top of at all.
- So is homelessness for some a revolving door, hard to step out of the cycle?
- But there is more to Renoir's work here than revolving door love affairs, excellent compositions, and artistic editing.
- This revolving door kind of social work is surely valuable on an individual level, but it does not train leaders, build organization, or help the poor to lift themselves from poverty.
- 1.2usually as modifier A place or organization that people tend to enter and leave very quickly.
人们出入频繁的场所(或组织) the newsroom became a revolving-door workplace 新闻编辑室成了人们出入繁忙的场所。 Example sentencesExamples - It revolves around the world's second largest auto maker and the continually revolving door at the executive suite.
- And they wondered what the usual distribution of responsibility might be, particularly in a chain-ownership era when the publishers office sometimes seems to have a revolving door.
- The European governments of the 1920s were like revolving doors, forever changing and with little sense of persistent direction.
- In many cases, a revolving door approach to higher administration on select campuses has hampered our colleagues, and colleges and or schools from achieving collective goals.
- Moyes had claimed at his unveiling that he wanted to bring some stability to the club after the revolving door transfer policy of the last few years, but these hopes were dashed with the abrupt departure of Paul Gascoigne to Burnley.
- Confidantes are a more precious commodity than ever, in part because the CEO position has become a revolving door.
- Most businesses can't afford that sort of revolving door operation.
- Journalists emerging through the revolving door of sackings and resignations that have characterised the title for several weeks now, bear tales of an organisation that is riven with internal strife.
- In light of the recent revolving door at the position, it's tempting to attribute Anderson's accomplishments to Shanahan's offensive system and Gibbs' offensive line.
- A revolving door at the top has resulted in four presidents over five years.
- With four culture ministers in as many years, Lee used the revolving door of executive changes to his advantage, making use of his trademark ‘controlled rages’ to maintain Scottish Screen's course.
- Who do you want to knight you, one of Italy's revolving door leaders?
- His durability will stop the revolving door at the position, and he will provide pop in the bottom of the order.
- When she took over a Saturday morning job on CBS, a lot of people talked about revolving doors.
- A revolving door of ‘heroic’ managers try continually to ‘fix’ this company.
- The revolving door continues for commissioners, too.
- Aware of the challenge of making college a real option for nontraditional students, LaGuardia was determined to find new ways to keep the open door from being a revolving door.
- This revolving door concept hampered any chance of building sustained chemistry and camaraderie between the players and thereby undermined team play.
- Why should Pistons fans believe the hiring of new coach Rick Carlisle will stop the revolving door at the position?
- He points out that the leadership has become a revolving door as four chiefs have come and gone since 1997.
- 1.3US Used to refer to a situation in which someone moves from an influential government position to a position in a private company, or vice versa.
〈主美〉从政府要职到私营公司任职的转换(或反之) the revolving door between the administration and private lobbying firms Example sentencesExamples - The industry-to-government revolving door, which has brought many meat industry insiders inside USDA, has weakened public health, also, the newspaper reports.
- However, it would be much more difficult for the revolving door of lobbying and the military industrial complex to make multi-millionaires of generals and politicans.
- Think tanks can provide a revolving door for individuals to move in and out of government.
- Critics decry this revolving door between industry and government.
- Instead of a revolving door, there should be a steel wall between Wall Street and Washington.
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