gyrate /dʒaɪˈreɪt/ ( gyrating, gyrated, gyrates )

• 1. 

  V-I If you gyrate, you dance or move your body quickly with circular movements. 旋转(身体)

  例：

  The woman began to gyrate to the music.

  这个女子开始随着音乐旋转。

  例：

  ...a room stuffed full of gasping, gyrating bodies.

  ...一间挤满了呼呼直喘，不停旋转的人的房间。

• 2. 

  gyration N-COUNT

  例：

  Prince continued his enthusiastic gyrations on stage.

  王子继续在台上激情地旋转。

• 3. 

  V-I To gyrate means to turn around and around in a circle, usually very fast. 旋转

  例：

  The Sun, Moon, and the planets formed from a huge spinning gas cloud that collapsed into a gyrating disc.

  太阳、月亮和这些星球形成于倒塌进一个旋转盘状物的一团巨大旋转汽云。

• 4. 

  V-I If things such as prices or currencies gyrate, they move up and down in a rapid and uncontrolled way. (价格)波动 [journalism]

  例：

  Interest rates began to gyrate up toward 20 percent in 1980 and then down and up again.

  1980年，利率开始朝着20%波动上升然后下降，又再次上升。

• 5. 

  gyration N-COUNT [usu pl, with supp]

  例：

  ...the gyrations of the currency markets.

  ...货币市场的波动。