Definition of cycle in English:

cycle

noun ˈsʌɪk(ə)lˈsaɪk(ə)l

1often with adjective or noun modifier A series of events that are regularly repeated in the same order.
循环
the recurrent cycle of harvest failure, food shortages, and price increases
Example sentencesExamples
- The reality, as we have seen, is that eclipses are not random at all; they repeat on regular cycles.
- Between 7 and 10 days later, the whole cycle is repeated.
- Scientists are fairly confident that there is a regular cycle of higher and lower storm frequency, and that we are due for a high frequency period.
- Eventually, though, as hiring picks up and labor markets tighten, wage growth accelerates and the cycle repeats.
- As the cycle repeats, panic starts to rise inside me, causing my heart to race and my temples to pound.
- Population grows, the same cycle repeats itself and another round of development adds to the sprawl, and the traffic, and so on.
- Any civilisation requires regular repeating cycles in order to be able to function properly.
- Feelings of low self worth mean they often put themselves in situations that are damaging and the cycle keeps being repeated.
- This form repeats itself in endless cycles, and with each cycle the content of practice and knowledge rises to a higher level.
- This stop-and-start cycle is repeated six more times.
- Many machines can now be programmed to repeat the same cycles.
- This procedure was repeated in several cycles to achieve the specified force in the cable.
- Let's use what power we have as consumers, then, to prevent a dangerous cycle from repeating itself.
- After recuperating for some 20 years, they return to the island of their birth, repeating the age-old cycle.
- Ovulation is the release of the egg from the ovaries in a regular monthly cycle.
- Each discrete section of animation is brief and each repeats in a regular cycle.
- Far from inaugurating a new style of popular politics, they repeat ancient cycles of violence and retribution.
- One other thing I know is that we are not doomed to repeat the escalating cycles of violence.
- Limit or eliminate herbicides and pesticides in order to encourage natural cycles of pest control.
- The tricky part is going to be to keep the currency at a manageable strength otherwise we just repeat the same cycle over again.
Synonyms
round, rotation, revolution
circle, pattern, rhythm
1. 1.1 The period of time taken to complete a cycle of events.
  周期
  the cells are shed over a cycle of twenty-eight days
  细胞脱落周期为28天。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Dr Perrett said that hepatitis A has a natural periodic cycle of about seven years, which would explain two outbreaks in such quick succession.
2. 1.2technical A recurring series of successive operations or states, such as in the working of an internal combustion engine, or in the alternation of an electric current or a wave.
  〈技〉循环；周；工作循环
  the familiar four cycles of intake, combustion, ignition, and exhaust
  常见的四冲程：吸入、燃烧、点火和排气。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The quantum and classical Carnot engines therefore operate in the same way - a closed cycle of two isothermal and two adiabatic processes.
  Hydrogen must replace fossil fuels through efficient production using solar radiation, thermochemical cycles, or bioinspired catalysts to split water.
  A Stirling Engine is a mechanical device, which operates on a closed looping thermodynamic cycle.
  He then suggested enhancing the technique by combining pressure with powerful cycles of ultrasonic energy.
  At the sub-femtosecond level, a laser pulse contains only a few cycles of the carrier electromagnetic wave.
3. 1.3Biology A recurring series of events or metabolic processes in the lifetime of a plant or animal.
  〔生〕（动植物生活或代谢的）周期
  the storks' breeding cycle
  鹳的繁殖周期。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Following this method does not overtax the body's natural cycles of metabolic dips, blood-pressure peaks and valleys.
  As a consequence, most biological processes, from sleep-wake cycles in people to leaf movements in plants, follow a daily, circadian rhythm.
  These metabolic cycles allow large and rapid changes in the net rate of sucrose breakdown in response to the demand in the cell, even though the steady-state concentrations of metabolites hardly change.
  This causes problems for the plant because if a broad band of proteins have been denatured, they can't continue with their normal metabolic cycles.
  Two things I've been interested in recently are the brain's visual processing, and the metabolic cycle.
4. 1.4Biochemistry A series of successive metabolic reactions in which one of the products is regenerated and reused.
  〔生化〕（代谢）循环，周期
  Example sentencesExamples
  PCR was carried out in limited cycles in which PCR products exponentially increased and reflected the initial quantity of RNA.
5. 1.5Ecology The movement of a simple substance through the soil, rocks, water, atmosphere, and living organisms of the earth.
  〔生态〕（简单物质通过地球上土壤、岩石、水、大气和生物的运动）循环。见CARBON CYCLE，NITROGEN CYCLE
  See carbon cycle, nitrogen cycle
  Example sentencesExamples
  Wetland's microbes, plants, and wildlife are part of global cycles for water and nitrogen.
  Looking at the needs of diverse forests and soils, and the cycles of water and air, the evidence suggests that North America, the planet also, is already overpopulated by humans.
  Once cooled to body temperature, the water then completes its cycle by being returned to the ground where it slowly irrigates a grove of mesquite trees that form a new desert park.
  One form of interaction is the cycle of moisture: water evaporates to form clouds from which water falls again as rain.
  Deforestation also can have regional climatic effects because trees are a key link in the evapotranspiration cycle between soil and the atmosphere.
6. 1.6Computing A single set of hardware operations, especially that by which memory is accessed and an item is transferred to or from it, to the point at which the memory may be accessed again.
  〔计算机〕周期，循环
  Example sentencesExamples
  Grid software makes collections of computers more efficient by allowing them to share CPU cycles, memory and other resources so closely that they act almost like a single computer.
  These are typically scientific or technical and require a great number of computer processing cycles or access to large amounts of data.
  The workload is executed on simulated processors where each machine instruction of the target processor can take many machine cycles of the host computer.
  The resources that are important from an active networking point of view include CPU cycles, main memory, and outgoing network bandwidth.
  An important consideration is the fact that network resources, measured as throughput in MB per second are a fixed resource just as disk space and CPU cycles are.
7. 1.7Physics A cycle per second; one hertz.
  〔物理〕周，周/秒，赫（兹）
  AC reverses its direction of flow sixty times a second at 60 cycles
  Example sentencesExamples
  When the researchers apply voltage to the source, the arm begins vibrating at a frequency of 350 to 400 million cycles per second between the electrodes.
  Optical clocks, with frequencies measured near 10 cycles per second, promise greater accuracy.
  Different frequencies, measured in hertz, or cycles per second, indicate different levels and types of activities.
  The rate at which an object vibrates is measured in Hertz or cycles per second.
  The sounds emitted may be undetectable to the human ear, which on average can hear between 16 and 16,000 cycles per second.
2A complete set or series.
整套，系列
the painting is one of a cycle of seven
这是一套七幅画中的一幅。
Example sentencesExamples
- The planned cycle of seven books is underpinned by the conceit that there should be one book for each day of the week.
- In this section, Davis examines eleven short-story cycles, comparing two or three of them in each of the five chapters.
- Moreover, the narrative structure of short story cycles mirrors the episodic and unchronological method of oral narration.
- About a dozen stories will be performed from the full cycle of 50 plays, retelling the Bible's account of mankind from God's Creation to Judgment Day.
- The first and last stories in the cycle most clearly evoke a balancing dialogue through a careful mirroring of their basic plots.
- His extensive fresco cycles display compositional and narrative complexity and combine historical themes with contemporary detail.
- He painted this canvas at the height of his career, while he was working on his celebrated cycle of paintings The Story of Psyche for the Hotel de Soubise in Paris.
- With Kamban, perhaps for the last time in the cycle of Indian Rama stories, Rama occasionally straddles the nebulous twilight zone between epic hero and infallible deity.
- The play is part of Wilson's decade-by-decade cycle examining African-American life in the 20th century.
- The Arthurian Legends are a cycle of stories that has been shaped and passed down through over fourteen hundred years of English history.
Synonyms
series, sequence, succession, run
set
1. 2.1 A series of songs, stories, plays, or poems composed around a particular theme, and usually intended to be performed or read in sequence.
  组歌，组剧，组诗
  Wagner's Ring Cycle
  瓦格纳的《尼伯龙根的指环》组剧。
  Example sentencesExamples
  The mezzo-soprano distinguished herself in a cycle of spiritual songs by various modern composers.
  This series includes a complete cycle of the symphonies performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra with Leonard Slatkin.
  Few established contemporary poets have shown the commitment or innovation displayed by Wearne in writing the long cycles of thematic poems.
  Reading the text as a short story cycle and not just a collection reveals Lahiri's careful balancing of a range of representations and her intricate use of pattern and motif.
  The entire cycle runs at about seven hours, and it's a long haul.
  The last time she attempted an epic cycle of eighteen songs, the result was a horribly uneven album.
  Medieval Lauds featured a weekly cycle of seven canticles beginning on Sunday with the Benedicite.
  Akhmatova wrote a poem cycle called Cinque which was based on their evenings together.
  Think of Sibelius, the nationalist composer; or the Kalevala - the epic cycle of musical folktales, first collected in 1835.
  He originally thought in terms of a theatrical setting for the whole cycle of fifteen quartets, but that proved too grandiose.
  In this sense, she reflects the same concerns as another emblematic mother-daughter short story cycle, Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club.
3A bicycle or tricycle.
自行车，三轮车
for the energetic, cycles may be hired
as modifier cycle shorts
Example sentencesExamples
- Yuvaraj of standard seven, who came to school walking in the morning, won himself a cycle to ride back home.
- The sheer number of people in attendance has reduced the road to barely the width of two cycles.
- Ian was riding the cycle, and Amarie was clinging tightly to his back.
- She can remember no other girl at that time riding a cycle.
- The complex procedures required to ride a cycle, or to swim, are only lost with ill health.
- Sidharth rides a cycle selling tea and coffee in bus and railway stations to make a living.
- Race officials today announced they will be awarding two mountain cycles to volunteers aiding the effort in this year's race.
Synonyms
bicycle, two-wheeler, pedal cycle
1. 3.1in singular A ride on a bicycle.
  自行车骑行
  a 112-mile cycle
  112英里的自行车旅行。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Michael and Bernard provided one of the attractions on the day when they completed the cycle on a tandem bike.
  Today it is a blazing day in the capital, Maputo, and I have stayed on alone here for a few days, while the team continues the cycle northwards.

verb ˈsʌɪk(ə)lˈsaɪk(ə)l

1no object, with adverbial of direction Ride a bicycle.
自行车骑行
she cycled to work every day
她每天骑车上班。
Example sentencesExamples
- 21-year-old John works as a sales assistant and cycles everywhere on his mountain bike.
- By the end of the year he will have cycled nearly 1,400 miles.
- So far, he has cycled more than 5,000 miles, pedaling for up to six hours a day, six days a week.
- Back home, I found I'd cycled 2.32 miles, rather more than I'd planned, and three times as far as I can walk.
- I opted to cycle for an hour out of London and then turn round, whatever the distance covered.
- The snow has settled and it's still coming down, which is great and lovely but I have to cycle 5 miles or so to work.
- When he was 65 Mr Simpson cycled 750 miles alone from Milan to the heel of Italy to visit his son-in-law and daughter.
- Public rights of way are paths and tracks through countryside and sometimes residential areas where people can walk, cycle and ride horses.
- Appalled, Sarah jumped onto her bicycle and cycled for half an hour until she reached her old house.
- Jimmy Bergin from Abbeyleix took out his bicycle and cycled 28 miles to raise funds.
- Ride, blade, cycle, stroll, wheel, walk or run to help spinal cord research in West Vancouver June 13.
- It only takes PE teacher Andrew three minutes longer to cycle rather than drive to work.
- Last year, she cycled over 1,300 miles from John O'Groats to Land's End on a tandem bicycle with her brother, Luke.
- Playing in the woods, on the beach, we would cycle for miles and miles into the countryside.
- Two cyclists joined in and cycled 20 miles to raise funds for charity.
- I cycle around on my bicycle, and I'm very, very happy.
- You could cycle, ride or kayak, but, personally, I prefer to trust my own two legs.
- Two 11-year-old boys saw a man on a mountain bike cycle past.
- As they cycle on their bicycles these cyclists are also listening to their favourite radio programmes!
- I cycle down the two-and-a-half miles of Southampton Road which is unusually devoid of traffic.
Synonyms
travel, go, move, progress, proceed, make one's way
2no object Move in or follow a regularly repeated sequence of events.
循环
economies cycle regularly between boom and slump
经济总是在繁荣与衰退之间有规律地循环。
Example sentencesExamples
- Be sure to link to this URL, because eventually this entry will cycle off the main page.
- Do one or two speed workouts a week, cycling through three different programs.
- You can press the up and down arrows repeatedly to cycle through the commands that you've already typed in.
- Using a virus they delivered a genetic mutation to the hearts of the hamsters that corrected a defect in the gene that regulates the way calcium is cycled through the heart.
- The frame includes a predefined number of time slots that are cycled through in sequence.
- Most profound were my sharp bursts of emotion, my rapidly cycling feelings that seemed impossible to express.
- Most athletes follow a rigid periodization scheme that cycles different training protocols every 6-8 weeks or so in the months leading up to a competition.
- Ideally, each lesson would cycle repeatedly through the romance, precision and generalization stages.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French, from late Latin cyclus, from Greek kuklos 'circle'.

wheel from Old English:
The wheel was probably invented some time around 4000 bc in Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq). Its name, probably based on a word meaning ‘to turn’, moved east to India, where it produced Sanskrit cakra ‘wheel, circle’, source of the chakra (late 19th century) of yoga, and west, where it gave rise to Greek kuklos ‘circle’, the source of cycle (Late Middle English) and cyclone (mid 19th century). It is recorded in Anglo-Saxon English from about ad 900. To reinvent the wheel is a 20th-century expression. Wheels within wheels is an allusion to a biblical quotation from the Old Testament book of Ezekiel. The prophet Ezekiel sees a vision in which four cherubs appear: ‘And as for their appearances, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel’.

Rhymes

Carmichael, cervical, Michael

Definition of cycle in US English:

cycle

nounˈsaɪk(ə)lˈsīk(ə)l

1often with adjective or noun modifier A series of events that are regularly repeated in the same order.
循环
the boom and slump periods of a trade cycle
贸易盛衰循环。
Example sentencesExamples
- One other thing I know is that we are not doomed to repeat the escalating cycles of violence.
- Scientists are fairly confident that there is a regular cycle of higher and lower storm frequency, and that we are due for a high frequency period.
- This form repeats itself in endless cycles, and with each cycle the content of practice and knowledge rises to a higher level.
- The reality, as we have seen, is that eclipses are not random at all; they repeat on regular cycles.
- After recuperating for some 20 years, they return to the island of their birth, repeating the age-old cycle.
- Many machines can now be programmed to repeat the same cycles.
- This procedure was repeated in several cycles to achieve the specified force in the cable.
- Between 7 and 10 days later, the whole cycle is repeated.
- This stop-and-start cycle is repeated six more times.
- Feelings of low self worth mean they often put themselves in situations that are damaging and the cycle keeps being repeated.
- Eventually, though, as hiring picks up and labor markets tighten, wage growth accelerates and the cycle repeats.
- Each discrete section of animation is brief and each repeats in a regular cycle.
- As the cycle repeats, panic starts to rise inside me, causing my heart to race and my temples to pound.
- Any civilisation requires regular repeating cycles in order to be able to function properly.
- Ovulation is the release of the egg from the ovaries in a regular monthly cycle.
- Population grows, the same cycle repeats itself and another round of development adds to the sprawl, and the traffic, and so on.
- Limit or eliminate herbicides and pesticides in order to encourage natural cycles of pest control.
- The tricky part is going to be to keep the currency at a manageable strength otherwise we just repeat the same cycle over again.
- Let's use what power we have as consumers, then, to prevent a dangerous cycle from repeating itself.
- Far from inaugurating a new style of popular politics, they repeat ancient cycles of violence and retribution.
Synonyms
round, rotation, revolution
1. 1.1 The period of time taken to complete a single sequence of events.
  周期
  the cells are shed over a cycle of twenty-eight days
  细胞脱落周期为28天。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Dr Perrett said that hepatitis A has a natural periodic cycle of about seven years, which would explain two outbreaks in such quick succession.
2. 1.2technical A recurring series of successive operations or states, as in the working of an internal combustion engine, or in the alternation of an electric current or a wave.
  〈技〉循环；周；工作循环
  the familiar four cycles of intake, combustion, ignition, and exhaust
  常见的四冲程：吸入、燃烧、点火和排气。
  Example sentencesExamples
  He then suggested enhancing the technique by combining pressure with powerful cycles of ultrasonic energy.
  A Stirling Engine is a mechanical device, which operates on a closed looping thermodynamic cycle.
  At the sub-femtosecond level, a laser pulse contains only a few cycles of the carrier electromagnetic wave.
  The quantum and classical Carnot engines therefore operate in the same way - a closed cycle of two isothermal and two adiabatic processes.
  Hydrogen must replace fossil fuels through efficient production using solar radiation, thermochemical cycles, or bioinspired catalysts to split water.
3. 1.3Biology A recurring series of events or metabolic processes in the lifetime of a plant or animal.
  〔生〕（动植物生活或代谢的）周期
  the storks' breeding cycle
  鹳的繁殖周期。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Two things I've been interested in recently are the brain's visual processing, and the metabolic cycle.
  This causes problems for the plant because if a broad band of proteins have been denatured, they can't continue with their normal metabolic cycles.
  Following this method does not overtax the body's natural cycles of metabolic dips, blood-pressure peaks and valleys.
  As a consequence, most biological processes, from sleep-wake cycles in people to leaf movements in plants, follow a daily, circadian rhythm.
  These metabolic cycles allow large and rapid changes in the net rate of sucrose breakdown in response to the demand in the cell, even though the steady-state concentrations of metabolites hardly change.
4. 1.4Biochemistry A series of successive metabolic reactions in which one of the products is regenerated and reused.
  〔生化〕（代谢）循环，周期
  Example sentencesExamples
  PCR was carried out in limited cycles in which PCR products exponentially increased and reflected the initial quantity of RNA.
5. 1.5Ecology The movement of a simple substance through the soil, rocks, water, atmosphere, and living organisms of the earth.
  〔生态〕（简单物质通过地球上土壤、岩石、水、大气和生物的运动）循环。见CARBON CYCLE，NITROGEN CYCLE
  See carbon cycle, nitrogen cycle
  Example sentencesExamples
  Wetland's microbes, plants, and wildlife are part of global cycles for water and nitrogen.
  Looking at the needs of diverse forests and soils, and the cycles of water and air, the evidence suggests that North America, the planet also, is already overpopulated by humans.
  Once cooled to body temperature, the water then completes its cycle by being returned to the ground where it slowly irrigates a grove of mesquite trees that form a new desert park.
  Deforestation also can have regional climatic effects because trees are a key link in the evapotranspiration cycle between soil and the atmosphere.
  One form of interaction is the cycle of moisture: water evaporates to form clouds from which water falls again as rain.
6. 1.6Computing A single set of hardware operations, especially that by which memory is accessed and an item is transferred to or from it, to the point at which the memory may be accessed again.
  〔计算机〕周期，循环
  Example sentencesExamples
  The resources that are important from an active networking point of view include CPU cycles, main memory, and outgoing network bandwidth.
  Grid software makes collections of computers more efficient by allowing them to share CPU cycles, memory and other resources so closely that they act almost like a single computer.
  An important consideration is the fact that network resources, measured as throughput in MB per second are a fixed resource just as disk space and CPU cycles are.
  These are typically scientific or technical and require a great number of computer processing cycles or access to large amounts of data.
  The workload is executed on simulated processors where each machine instruction of the target processor can take many machine cycles of the host computer.
7. 1.7Physics A cycle per second; one hertz.
  〔物理〕周，周/秒，赫（兹）
  Example sentencesExamples
  The sounds emitted may be undetectable to the human ear, which on average can hear between 16 and 16,000 cycles per second.
  The rate at which an object vibrates is measured in Hertz or cycles per second.
  Optical clocks, with frequencies measured near 10 cycles per second, promise greater accuracy.
  When the researchers apply voltage to the source, the arm begins vibrating at a frequency of 350 to 400 million cycles per second between the electrodes.
  Different frequencies, measured in hertz, or cycles per second, indicate different levels and types of activities.
2A complete set or series.
整套，系列
the painting is one of a cycle of seven
这是一套七幅画中的一幅。
Example sentencesExamples
- The Arthurian Legends are a cycle of stories that has been shaped and passed down through over fourteen hundred years of English history.
- The first and last stories in the cycle most clearly evoke a balancing dialogue through a careful mirroring of their basic plots.
- His extensive fresco cycles display compositional and narrative complexity and combine historical themes with contemporary detail.
- Moreover, the narrative structure of short story cycles mirrors the episodic and unchronological method of oral narration.
- The planned cycle of seven books is underpinned by the conceit that there should be one book for each day of the week.
- About a dozen stories will be performed from the full cycle of 50 plays, retelling the Bible's account of mankind from God's Creation to Judgment Day.
- He painted this canvas at the height of his career, while he was working on his celebrated cycle of paintings The Story of Psyche for the Hotel de Soubise in Paris.
- The play is part of Wilson's decade-by-decade cycle examining African-American life in the 20th century.
- In this section, Davis examines eleven short-story cycles, comparing two or three of them in each of the five chapters.
- With Kamban, perhaps for the last time in the cycle of Indian Rama stories, Rama occasionally straddles the nebulous twilight zone between epic hero and infallible deity.
Synonyms
series, sequence, succession, run
1. 2.1 A series of songs, stories, plays, or poems composed around a particular theme, and usually intended to be performed or read in sequence.
  组歌，组剧，组诗
  Wagner's Ring Cycle
  瓦格纳的《尼伯龙根的指环》组剧。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Few established contemporary poets have shown the commitment or innovation displayed by Wearne in writing the long cycles of thematic poems.
  The mezzo-soprano distinguished herself in a cycle of spiritual songs by various modern composers.
  Reading the text as a short story cycle and not just a collection reveals Lahiri's careful balancing of a range of representations and her intricate use of pattern and motif.
  The entire cycle runs at about seven hours, and it's a long haul.
  Medieval Lauds featured a weekly cycle of seven canticles beginning on Sunday with the Benedicite.
  The last time she attempted an epic cycle of eighteen songs, the result was a horribly uneven album.
  This series includes a complete cycle of the symphonies performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra with Leonard Slatkin.
  In this sense, she reflects the same concerns as another emblematic mother-daughter short story cycle, Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club.
  Think of Sibelius, the nationalist composer; or the Kalevala - the epic cycle of musical folktales, first collected in 1835.
  He originally thought in terms of a theatrical setting for the whole cycle of fifteen quartets, but that proved too grandiose.
  Akhmatova wrote a poem cycle called Cinque which was based on their evenings together.
3A bicycle or tricycle.
自行车，三轮车
Example sentencesExamples
- The complex procedures required to ride a cycle, or to swim, are only lost with ill health.
- The sheer number of people in attendance has reduced the road to barely the width of two cycles.
- Sidharth rides a cycle selling tea and coffee in bus and railway stations to make a living.
- Ian was riding the cycle, and Amarie was clinging tightly to his back.
- She can remember no other girl at that time riding a cycle.
- Yuvaraj of standard seven, who came to school walking in the morning, won himself a cycle to ride back home.
- Race officials today announced they will be awarding two mountain cycles to volunteers aiding the effort in this year's race.
Synonyms
bicycle, two-wheeler, pedal cycle
1. 3.1in singular A ride on a bicycle.
  自行车骑行
  a 112-mile cycle
  112英里的自行车旅行。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Today it is a blazing day in the capital, Maputo, and I have stayed on alone here for a few days, while the team continues the cycle northwards.
  Michael and Bernard provided one of the attractions on the day when they completed the cycle on a tandem bike.

verbˈsaɪk(ə)lˈsīk(ə)l

[no object]

1Ride a bicycle.
自行车骑行
she cycled to work every day
她每天骑车上班。
Example sentencesExamples
- I opted to cycle for an hour out of London and then turn round, whatever the distance covered.
- Last year, she cycled over 1,300 miles from John O'Groats to Land's End on a tandem bicycle with her brother, Luke.
- When he was 65 Mr Simpson cycled 750 miles alone from Milan to the heel of Italy to visit his son-in-law and daughter.
- I cycle around on my bicycle, and I'm very, very happy.
- Ride, blade, cycle, stroll, wheel, walk or run to help spinal cord research in West Vancouver June 13.
- Public rights of way are paths and tracks through countryside and sometimes residential areas where people can walk, cycle and ride horses.
- It only takes PE teacher Andrew three minutes longer to cycle rather than drive to work.
- 21-year-old John works as a sales assistant and cycles everywhere on his mountain bike.
- Back home, I found I'd cycled 2.32 miles, rather more than I'd planned, and three times as far as I can walk.
- So far, he has cycled more than 5,000 miles, pedaling for up to six hours a day, six days a week.
- Jimmy Bergin from Abbeyleix took out his bicycle and cycled 28 miles to raise funds.
- Appalled, Sarah jumped onto her bicycle and cycled for half an hour until she reached her old house.
- The snow has settled and it's still coming down, which is great and lovely but I have to cycle 5 miles or so to work.
- By the end of the year he will have cycled nearly 1,400 miles.
- Two cyclists joined in and cycled 20 miles to raise funds for charity.
- Two 11-year-old boys saw a man on a mountain bike cycle past.
- As they cycle on their bicycles these cyclists are also listening to their favourite radio programmes!
- You could cycle, ride or kayak, but, personally, I prefer to trust my own two legs.
- Playing in the woods, on the beach, we would cycle for miles and miles into the countryside.
- I cycle down the two-and-a-half miles of Southampton Road which is unusually devoid of traffic.
Synonyms
travel, go, move, progress, proceed, make one's way
2Move in or follow a regularly repeated sequence of events.
循环
economies cycle regularly between boom and slump
经济总是在繁荣与衰退之间有规律地循环。
Example sentencesExamples
- Most profound were my sharp bursts of emotion, my rapidly cycling feelings that seemed impossible to express.
- Be sure to link to this URL, because eventually this entry will cycle off the main page.
- Do one or two speed workouts a week, cycling through three different programs.
- Ideally, each lesson would cycle repeatedly through the romance, precision and generalization stages.
- You can press the up and down arrows repeatedly to cycle through the commands that you've already typed in.
- Most athletes follow a rigid periodization scheme that cycles different training protocols every 6-8 weeks or so in the months leading up to a competition.
- Using a virus they delivered a genetic mutation to the hearts of the hamsters that corrected a defect in the gene that regulates the way calcium is cycled through the heart.
- The frame includes a predefined number of time slots that are cycled through in sequence.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French, from late Latin cyclus, from Greek kuklos ‘circle’.

词汇	cycle
释义	Definition of cycle in English: cycle noun ˈsʌɪk(ə)lˈsaɪk(ə)l 1often with adjective or noun modifier A series of events that are regularly repeated in the same order. 循环 the recurrent cycle of harvest failure, food shortages, and price increases Example sentencesExamples The reality, as we have seen, is that eclipses are not random at all; they repeat on regular cycles. Between 7 and 10 days later, the whole cycle is repeated. Scientists are fairly confident that there is a regular cycle of higher and lower storm frequency, and that we are due for a high frequency period. Eventually, though, as hiring picks up and labor markets tighten, wage growth accelerates and the cycle repeats. As the cycle repeats, panic starts to rise inside me, causing my heart to race and my temples to pound. Population grows, the same cycle repeats itself and another round of development adds to the sprawl, and the traffic, and so on. Any civilisation requires regular repeating cycles in order to be able to function properly. Feelings of low self worth mean they often put themselves in situations that are damaging and the cycle keeps being repeated. This form repeats itself in endless cycles, and with each cycle the content of practice and knowledge rises to a higher level. This stop-and-start cycle is repeated six more times. Many machines can now be programmed to repeat the same cycles. This procedure was repeated in several cycles to achieve the specified force in the cable. Let's use what power we have as consumers, then, to prevent a dangerous cycle from repeating itself. After recuperating for some 20 years, they return to the island of their birth, repeating the age-old cycle. Ovulation is the release of the egg from the ovaries in a regular monthly cycle. Each discrete section of animation is brief and each repeats in a regular cycle. Far from inaugurating a new style of popular politics, they repeat ancient cycles of violence and retribution. One other thing I know is that we are not doomed to repeat the escalating cycles of violence. Limit or eliminate herbicides and pesticides in order to encourage natural cycles of pest control. The tricky part is going to be to keep the currency at a manageable strength otherwise we just repeat the same cycle over again. Synonyms round, rotation, revolution circle, pattern, rhythm 1.1 The period of time taken to complete a cycle of events. 周期 the cells are shed over a cycle of twenty-eight days 细胞脱落周期为28天。 Example sentencesExamples Dr Perrett said that hepatitis A has a natural periodic cycle of about seven years, which would explain two outbreaks in such quick succession. 1.2technical A recurring series of successive operations or states, such as in the working of an internal combustion engine, or in the alternation of an electric current or a wave. 〈技〉循环；周；工作循环 the familiar four cycles of intake, combustion, ignition, and exhaust 常见的四冲程：吸入、燃烧、点火和排气。 Example sentencesExamples The quantum and classical Carnot engines therefore operate in the same way - a closed cycle of two isothermal and two adiabatic processes. Hydrogen must replace fossil fuels through efficient production using solar radiation, thermochemical cycles, or bioinspired catalysts to split water. A Stirling Engine is a mechanical device, which operates on a closed looping thermodynamic cycle. He then suggested enhancing the technique by combining pressure with powerful cycles of ultrasonic energy. At the sub-femtosecond level, a laser pulse contains only a few cycles of the carrier electromagnetic wave. 1.3Biology A recurring series of events or metabolic processes in the lifetime of a plant or animal. 〔生〕（动植物生活或代谢的）周期 the storks' breeding cycle 鹳的繁殖周期。 Example sentencesExamples Following this method does not overtax the body's natural cycles of metabolic dips, blood-pressure peaks and valleys. As a consequence, most biological processes, from sleep-wake cycles in people to leaf movements in plants, follow a daily, circadian rhythm. These metabolic cycles allow large and rapid changes in the net rate of sucrose breakdown in response to the demand in the cell, even though the steady-state concentrations of metabolites hardly change. This causes problems for the plant because if a broad band of proteins have been denatured, they can't continue with their normal metabolic cycles. Two things I've been interested in recently are the brain's visual processing, and the metabolic cycle. 1.4Biochemistry A series of successive metabolic reactions in which one of the products is regenerated and reused. 〔生化〕（代谢）循环，周期 Example sentencesExamples PCR was carried out in limited cycles in which PCR products exponentially increased and reflected the initial quantity of RNA. 1.5Ecology The movement of a simple substance through the soil, rocks, water, atmosphere, and living organisms of the earth. 〔生态〕（简单物质通过地球上土壤、岩石、水、大气和生物的运动）循环。见CARBON CYCLE，NITROGEN CYCLE See carbon cycle, nitrogen cycle Example sentencesExamples Wetland's microbes, plants, and wildlife are part of global cycles for water and nitrogen. Looking at the needs of diverse forests and soils, and the cycles of water and air, the evidence suggests that North America, the planet also, is already overpopulated by humans. Once cooled to body temperature, the water then completes its cycle by being returned to the ground where it slowly irrigates a grove of mesquite trees that form a new desert park. One form of interaction is the cycle of moisture: water evaporates to form clouds from which water falls again as rain. Deforestation also can have regional climatic effects because trees are a key link in the evapotranspiration cycle between soil and the atmosphere. 1.6Computing A single set of hardware operations, especially that by which memory is accessed and an item is transferred to or from it, to the point at which the memory may be accessed again. 〔计算机〕周期，循环 Example sentencesExamples Grid software makes collections of computers more efficient by allowing them to share CPU cycles, memory and other resources so closely that they act almost like a single computer. These are typically scientific or technical and require a great number of computer processing cycles or access to large amounts of data. The workload is executed on simulated processors where each machine instruction of the target processor can take many machine cycles of the host computer. The resources that are important from an active networking point of view include CPU cycles, main memory, and outgoing network bandwidth. An important consideration is the fact that network resources, measured as throughput in MB per second are a fixed resource just as disk space and CPU cycles are. 1.7Physics A cycle per second; one hertz. 〔物理〕周，周/秒，赫（兹） AC reverses its direction of flow sixty times a second at 60 cycles Example sentencesExamples When the researchers apply voltage to the source, the arm begins vibrating at a frequency of 350 to 400 million cycles per second between the electrodes. Optical clocks, with frequencies measured near 10 cycles per second, promise greater accuracy. Different frequencies, measured in hertz, or cycles per second, indicate different levels and types of activities. The rate at which an object vibrates is measured in Hertz or cycles per second. The sounds emitted may be undetectable to the human ear, which on average can hear between 16 and 16,000 cycles per second. 2A complete set or series. 整套，系列 the painting is one of a cycle of seven 这是一套七幅画中的一幅。 Example sentencesExamples The planned cycle of seven books is underpinned by the conceit that there should be one book for each day of the week. In this section, Davis examines eleven short-story cycles, comparing two or three of them in each of the five chapters. Moreover, the narrative structure of short story cycles mirrors the episodic and unchronological method of oral narration. About a dozen stories will be performed from the full cycle of 50 plays, retelling the Bible's account of mankind from God's Creation to Judgment Day. The first and last stories in the cycle most clearly evoke a balancing dialogue through a careful mirroring of their basic plots. His extensive fresco cycles display compositional and narrative complexity and combine historical themes with contemporary detail. He painted this canvas at the height of his career, while he was working on his celebrated cycle of paintings The Story of Psyche for the Hotel de Soubise in Paris. With Kamban, perhaps for the last time in the cycle of Indian Rama stories, Rama occasionally straddles the nebulous twilight zone between epic hero and infallible deity. The play is part of Wilson's decade-by-decade cycle examining African-American life in the 20th century. The Arthurian Legends are a cycle of stories that has been shaped and passed down through over fourteen hundred years of English history. Synonyms series, sequence, succession, run set 2.1 A series of songs, stories, plays, or poems composed around a particular theme, and usually intended to be performed or read in sequence. 组歌，组剧，组诗 Wagner's Ring Cycle 瓦格纳的《尼伯龙根的指环》组剧。 Example sentencesExamples The mezzo-soprano distinguished herself in a cycle of spiritual songs by various modern composers. This series includes a complete cycle of the symphonies performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra with Leonard Slatkin. Few established contemporary poets have shown the commitment or innovation displayed by Wearne in writing the long cycles of thematic poems. Reading the text as a short story cycle and not just a collection reveals Lahiri's careful balancing of a range of representations and her intricate use of pattern and motif. The entire cycle runs at about seven hours, and it's a long haul. The last time she attempted an epic cycle of eighteen songs, the result was a horribly uneven album. Medieval Lauds featured a weekly cycle of seven canticles beginning on Sunday with the Benedicite. Akhmatova wrote a poem cycle called Cinque which was based on their evenings together. Think of Sibelius, the nationalist composer; or the Kalevala - the epic cycle of musical folktales, first collected in 1835. He originally thought in terms of a theatrical setting for the whole cycle of fifteen quartets, but that proved too grandiose. In this sense, she reflects the same concerns as another emblematic mother-daughter short story cycle, Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club. 3A bicycle or tricycle. 自行车，三轮车 for the energetic, cycles may be hired as modifier cycle shorts Example sentencesExamples Yuvaraj of standard seven, who came to school walking in the morning, won himself a cycle to ride back home. The sheer number of people in attendance has reduced the road to barely the width of two cycles. Ian was riding the cycle, and Amarie was clinging tightly to his back. She can remember no other girl at that time riding a cycle. The complex procedures required to ride a cycle, or to swim, are only lost with ill health. Sidharth rides a cycle selling tea and coffee in bus and railway stations to make a living. Race officials today announced they will be awarding two mountain cycles to volunteers aiding the effort in this year's race. Synonyms bicycle, two-wheeler, pedal cycle 3.1in singular A ride on a bicycle. 自行车骑行 a 112-mile cycle 112英里的自行车旅行。 Example sentencesExamples Michael and Bernard provided one of the attractions on the day when they completed the cycle on a tandem bike. Today it is a blazing day in the capital, Maputo, and I have stayed on alone here for a few days, while the team continues the cycle northwards. verb ˈsʌɪk(ə)lˈsaɪk(ə)l 1no object, with adverbial of direction Ride a bicycle. 自行车骑行 she cycled to work every day 她每天骑车上班。 Example sentencesExamples 21-year-old John works as a sales assistant and cycles everywhere on his mountain bike. By the end of the year he will have cycled nearly 1,400 miles. So far, he has cycled more than 5,000 miles, pedaling for up to six hours a day, six days a week. Back home, I found I'd cycled 2.32 miles, rather more than I'd planned, and three times as far as I can walk. I opted to cycle for an hour out of London and then turn round, whatever the distance covered. The snow has settled and it's still coming down, which is great and lovely but I have to cycle 5 miles or so to work. When he was 65 Mr Simpson cycled 750 miles alone from Milan to the heel of Italy to visit his son-in-law and daughter. Public rights of way are paths and tracks through countryside and sometimes residential areas where people can walk, cycle and ride horses. Appalled, Sarah jumped onto her bicycle and cycled for half an hour until she reached her old house. Jimmy Bergin from Abbeyleix took out his bicycle and cycled 28 miles to raise funds. Ride, blade, cycle, stroll, wheel, walk or run to help spinal cord research in West Vancouver June 13. It only takes PE teacher Andrew three minutes longer to cycle rather than drive to work. Last year, she cycled over 1,300 miles from John O'Groats to Land's End on a tandem bicycle with her brother, Luke. Playing in the woods, on the beach, we would cycle for miles and miles into the countryside. Two cyclists joined in and cycled 20 miles to raise funds for charity. I cycle around on my bicycle, and I'm very, very happy. You could cycle, ride or kayak, but, personally, I prefer to trust my own two legs. Two 11-year-old boys saw a man on a mountain bike cycle past. As they cycle on their bicycles these cyclists are also listening to their favourite radio programmes! I cycle down the two-and-a-half miles of Southampton Road which is unusually devoid of traffic. Synonyms travel, go, move, progress, proceed, make one's way 2no object Move in or follow a regularly repeated sequence of events. 循环 economies cycle regularly between boom and slump 经济总是在繁荣与衰退之间有规律地循环。 Example sentencesExamples Be sure to link to this URL, because eventually this entry will cycle off the main page. Do one or two speed workouts a week, cycling through three different programs. You can press the up and down arrows repeatedly to cycle through the commands that you've already typed in. Using a virus they delivered a genetic mutation to the hearts of the hamsters that corrected a defect in the gene that regulates the way calcium is cycled through the heart. The frame includes a predefined number of time slots that are cycled through in sequence. Most profound were my sharp bursts of emotion, my rapidly cycling feelings that seemed impossible to express. Most athletes follow a rigid periodization scheme that cycles different training protocols every 6-8 weeks or so in the months leading up to a competition. Ideally, each lesson would cycle repeatedly through the romance, precision and generalization stages. Origin Late Middle English: from Old French, from late Latin cyclus, from Greek kuklos 'circle'. wheel from Old English: The wheel was probably invented some time around 4000 bc in Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq). Its name, probably based on a word meaning ‘to turn’, moved east to India, where it produced Sanskrit cakra ‘wheel, circle’, source of the chakra (late 19th century) of yoga, and west, where it gave rise to Greek kuklos ‘circle’, the source of cycle (Late Middle English) and cyclone (mid 19th century). It is recorded in Anglo-Saxon English from about ad 900. To reinvent the wheel is a 20th-century expression. Wheels within wheels is an allusion to a biblical quotation from the Old Testament book of Ezekiel. The prophet Ezekiel sees a vision in which four cherubs appear: ‘And as for their appearances, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel had been in the midst of a wheel’. Rhymes Carmichael, cervical, Michael Definition of cycle in US English: cycle nounˈsaɪk(ə)lˈsīk(ə)l 1often with adjective or noun modifier A series of events that are regularly repeated in the same order. 循环 the boom and slump periods of a trade cycle 贸易盛衰循环。 Example sentencesExamples One other thing I know is that we are not doomed to repeat the escalating cycles of violence. Scientists are fairly confident that there is a regular cycle of higher and lower storm frequency, and that we are due for a high frequency period. This form repeats itself in endless cycles, and with each cycle the content of practice and knowledge rises to a higher level. The reality, as we have seen, is that eclipses are not random at all; they repeat on regular cycles. After recuperating for some 20 years, they return to the island of their birth, repeating the age-old cycle. Many machines can now be programmed to repeat the same cycles. This procedure was repeated in several cycles to achieve the specified force in the cable. Between 7 and 10 days later, the whole cycle is repeated. This stop-and-start cycle is repeated six more times. Feelings of low self worth mean they often put themselves in situations that are damaging and the cycle keeps being repeated. Eventually, though, as hiring picks up and labor markets tighten, wage growth accelerates and the cycle repeats. Each discrete section of animation is brief and each repeats in a regular cycle. As the cycle repeats, panic starts to rise inside me, causing my heart to race and my temples to pound. Any civilisation requires regular repeating cycles in order to be able to function properly. Ovulation is the release of the egg from the ovaries in a regular monthly cycle. Population grows, the same cycle repeats itself and another round of development adds to the sprawl, and the traffic, and so on. Limit or eliminate herbicides and pesticides in order to encourage natural cycles of pest control. The tricky part is going to be to keep the currency at a manageable strength otherwise we just repeat the same cycle over again. Let's use what power we have as consumers, then, to prevent a dangerous cycle from repeating itself. Far from inaugurating a new style of popular politics, they repeat ancient cycles of violence and retribution. Synonyms round, rotation, revolution 1.1 The period of time taken to complete a single sequence of events. 周期 the cells are shed over a cycle of twenty-eight days 细胞脱落周期为28天。 Example sentencesExamples Dr Perrett said that hepatitis A has a natural periodic cycle of about seven years, which would explain two outbreaks in such quick succession. 1.2technical A recurring series of successive operations or states, as in the working of an internal combustion engine, or in the alternation of an electric current or a wave. 〈技〉循环；周；工作循环 the familiar four cycles of intake, combustion, ignition, and exhaust 常见的四冲程：吸入、燃烧、点火和排气。 Example sentencesExamples He then suggested enhancing the technique by combining pressure with powerful cycles of ultrasonic energy. A Stirling Engine is a mechanical device, which operates on a closed looping thermodynamic cycle. At the sub-femtosecond level, a laser pulse contains only a few cycles of the carrier electromagnetic wave. The quantum and classical Carnot engines therefore operate in the same way - a closed cycle of two isothermal and two adiabatic processes. Hydrogen must replace fossil fuels through efficient production using solar radiation, thermochemical cycles, or bioinspired catalysts to split water. 1.3Biology A recurring series of events or metabolic processes in the lifetime of a plant or animal. 〔生〕（动植物生活或代谢的）周期 the storks' breeding cycle 鹳的繁殖周期。 Example sentencesExamples Two things I've been interested in recently are the brain's visual processing, and the metabolic cycle. This causes problems for the plant because if a broad band of proteins have been denatured, they can't continue with their normal metabolic cycles. Following this method does not overtax the body's natural cycles of metabolic dips, blood-pressure peaks and valleys. As a consequence, most biological processes, from sleep-wake cycles in people to leaf movements in plants, follow a daily, circadian rhythm. These metabolic cycles allow large and rapid changes in the net rate of sucrose breakdown in response to the demand in the cell, even though the steady-state concentrations of metabolites hardly change. 1.4Biochemistry A series of successive metabolic reactions in which one of the products is regenerated and reused. 〔生化〕（代谢）循环，周期 Example sentencesExamples PCR was carried out in limited cycles in which PCR products exponentially increased and reflected the initial quantity of RNA. 1.5Ecology The movement of a simple substance through the soil, rocks, water, atmosphere, and living organisms of the earth. 〔生态〕（简单物质通过地球上土壤、岩石、水、大气和生物的运动）循环。见CARBON CYCLE，NITROGEN CYCLE See carbon cycle, nitrogen cycle Example sentencesExamples Wetland's microbes, plants, and wildlife are part of global cycles for water and nitrogen. Looking at the needs of diverse forests and soils, and the cycles of water and air, the evidence suggests that North America, the planet also, is already overpopulated by humans. Once cooled to body temperature, the water then completes its cycle by being returned to the ground where it slowly irrigates a grove of mesquite trees that form a new desert park. Deforestation also can have regional climatic effects because trees are a key link in the evapotranspiration cycle between soil and the atmosphere. One form of interaction is the cycle of moisture: water evaporates to form clouds from which water falls again as rain. 1.6Computing A single set of hardware operations, especially that by which memory is accessed and an item is transferred to or from it, to the point at which the memory may be accessed again. 〔计算机〕周期，循环 Example sentencesExamples The resources that are important from an active networking point of view include CPU cycles, main memory, and outgoing network bandwidth. Grid software makes collections of computers more efficient by allowing them to share CPU cycles, memory and other resources so closely that they act almost like a single computer. An important consideration is the fact that network resources, measured as throughput in MB per second are a fixed resource just as disk space and CPU cycles are. These are typically scientific or technical and require a great number of computer processing cycles or access to large amounts of data. The workload is executed on simulated processors where each machine instruction of the target processor can take many machine cycles of the host computer. 1.7Physics A cycle per second; one hertz. 〔物理〕周，周/秒，赫（兹） Example sentencesExamples The sounds emitted may be undetectable to the human ear, which on average can hear between 16 and 16,000 cycles per second. The rate at which an object vibrates is measured in Hertz or cycles per second. Optical clocks, with frequencies measured near 10 cycles per second, promise greater accuracy. When the researchers apply voltage to the source, the arm begins vibrating at a frequency of 350 to 400 million cycles per second between the electrodes. Different frequencies, measured in hertz, or cycles per second, indicate different levels and types of activities. 2A complete set or series. 整套，系列 the painting is one of a cycle of seven 这是一套七幅画中的一幅。 Example sentencesExamples The Arthurian Legends are a cycle of stories that has been shaped and passed down through over fourteen hundred years of English history. The first and last stories in the cycle most clearly evoke a balancing dialogue through a careful mirroring of their basic plots. His extensive fresco cycles display compositional and narrative complexity and combine historical themes with contemporary detail. Moreover, the narrative structure of short story cycles mirrors the episodic and unchronological method of oral narration. The planned cycle of seven books is underpinned by the conceit that there should be one book for each day of the week. About a dozen stories will be performed from the full cycle of 50 plays, retelling the Bible's account of mankind from God's Creation to Judgment Day. He painted this canvas at the height of his career, while he was working on his celebrated cycle of paintings The Story of Psyche for the Hotel de Soubise in Paris. The play is part of Wilson's decade-by-decade cycle examining African-American life in the 20th century. In this section, Davis examines eleven short-story cycles, comparing two or three of them in each of the five chapters. With Kamban, perhaps for the last time in the cycle of Indian Rama stories, Rama occasionally straddles the nebulous twilight zone between epic hero and infallible deity. Synonyms series, sequence, succession, run 2.1 A series of songs, stories, plays, or poems composed around a particular theme, and usually intended to be performed or read in sequence. 组歌，组剧，组诗 Wagner's Ring Cycle 瓦格纳的《尼伯龙根的指环》组剧。 Example sentencesExamples Few established contemporary poets have shown the commitment or innovation displayed by Wearne in writing the long cycles of thematic poems. The mezzo-soprano distinguished herself in a cycle of spiritual songs by various modern composers. Reading the text as a short story cycle and not just a collection reveals Lahiri's careful balancing of a range of representations and her intricate use of pattern and motif. The entire cycle runs at about seven hours, and it's a long haul. Medieval Lauds featured a weekly cycle of seven canticles beginning on Sunday with the Benedicite. The last time she attempted an epic cycle of eighteen songs, the result was a horribly uneven album. This series includes a complete cycle of the symphonies performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra with Leonard Slatkin. In this sense, she reflects the same concerns as another emblematic mother-daughter short story cycle, Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club. Think of Sibelius, the nationalist composer; or the Kalevala - the epic cycle of musical folktales, first collected in 1835. He originally thought in terms of a theatrical setting for the whole cycle of fifteen quartets, but that proved too grandiose. Akhmatova wrote a poem cycle called Cinque which was based on their evenings together. 3A bicycle or tricycle. 自行车，三轮车 Example sentencesExamples The complex procedures required to ride a cycle, or to swim, are only lost with ill health. The sheer number of people in attendance has reduced the road to barely the width of two cycles. Sidharth rides a cycle selling tea and coffee in bus and railway stations to make a living. Ian was riding the cycle, and Amarie was clinging tightly to his back. She can remember no other girl at that time riding a cycle. Yuvaraj of standard seven, who came to school walking in the morning, won himself a cycle to ride back home. Race officials today announced they will be awarding two mountain cycles to volunteers aiding the effort in this year's race. Synonyms bicycle, two-wheeler, pedal cycle 3.1in singular A ride on a bicycle. 自行车骑行 a 112-mile cycle 112英里的自行车旅行。 Example sentencesExamples Today it is a blazing day in the capital, Maputo, and I have stayed on alone here for a few days, while the team continues the cycle northwards. Michael and Bernard provided one of the attractions on the day when they completed the cycle on a tandem bike. verbˈsaɪk(ə)lˈsīk(ə)l [no object] 1Ride a bicycle. 自行车骑行 she cycled to work every day 她每天骑车上班。 Example sentencesExamples I opted to cycle for an hour out of London and then turn round, whatever the distance covered. Last year, she cycled over 1,300 miles from John O'Groats to Land's End on a tandem bicycle with her brother, Luke. When he was 65 Mr Simpson cycled 750 miles alone from Milan to the heel of Italy to visit his son-in-law and daughter. I cycle around on my bicycle, and I'm very, very happy. Ride, blade, cycle, stroll, wheel, walk or run to help spinal cord research in West Vancouver June 13. Public rights of way are paths and tracks through countryside and sometimes residential areas where people can walk, cycle and ride horses. It only takes PE teacher Andrew three minutes longer to cycle rather than drive to work. 21-year-old John works as a sales assistant and cycles everywhere on his mountain bike. Back home, I found I'd cycled 2.32 miles, rather more than I'd planned, and three times as far as I can walk. So far, he has cycled more than 5,000 miles, pedaling for up to six hours a day, six days a week. Jimmy Bergin from Abbeyleix took out his bicycle and cycled 28 miles to raise funds. Appalled, Sarah jumped onto her bicycle and cycled for half an hour until she reached her old house. The snow has settled and it's still coming down, which is great and lovely but I have to cycle 5 miles or so to work. By the end of the year he will have cycled nearly 1,400 miles. Two cyclists joined in and cycled 20 miles to raise funds for charity. Two 11-year-old boys saw a man on a mountain bike cycle past. As they cycle on their bicycles these cyclists are also listening to their favourite radio programmes! You could cycle, ride or kayak, but, personally, I prefer to trust my own two legs. Playing in the woods, on the beach, we would cycle for miles and miles into the countryside. I cycle down the two-and-a-half miles of Southampton Road which is unusually devoid of traffic. Synonyms travel, go, move, progress, proceed, make one's way 2Move in or follow a regularly repeated sequence of events. 循环 economies cycle regularly between boom and slump 经济总是在繁荣与衰退之间有规律地循环。 Example sentencesExamples Most profound were my sharp bursts of emotion, my rapidly cycling feelings that seemed impossible to express. Be sure to link to this URL, because eventually this entry will cycle off the main page. Do one or two speed workouts a week, cycling through three different programs. Ideally, each lesson would cycle repeatedly through the romance, precision and generalization stages. You can press the up and down arrows repeatedly to cycle through the commands that you've already typed in. Most athletes follow a rigid periodization scheme that cycles different training protocols every 6-8 weeks or so in the months leading up to a competition. Using a virus they delivered a genetic mutation to the hearts of the hamsters that corrected a defect in the gene that regulates the way calcium is cycled through the heart. The frame includes a predefined number of time slots that are cycled through in sequence. Origin Late Middle English: from Old French, from late Latin cyclus, from Greek kuklos ‘circle’.
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