boomerang
boomerang 英 [ˈbu:məræŋ] 美 [ˈbuməˌræŋ]
n. 职场“回头客”（辞职另谋职位后，又返回原公司工作的人）
进行时:boomeranging 过去式:boomeranged 过去分词:boomeranged 第三人称单数:boomerangs 名词复数:boomerangs
- A boomerang is a curved piece of wood that returns to the thrower if tossed correctly. To boomerang is to bounce back to a previous position like a boomerang.
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- n. 职场“回头客”（辞职另谋职位后，又返回原公司工作的人）
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1. A hug is like a boomerang - you get it back right away.
拥抱就像回旋飞镖——一扔出去，它马上就会回来。
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2. But the boomerang Nebula's expansion creates a kind of cosmic refrigerator, allowing the gases to maintain their unusual cool.
然而回飞棒星云的扩张却创建了一种特定类型的宇宙的冷冻器，它能容许气体维持它们原来的异常冷却温度。
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3. The rise of the so-called “ boomerang generation” is laid bare in official figures showing that almost one in five graduates in their late 20s now live with their parents.
官方数据显示，目前（英国）有近五分之一年龄在20多岁的大学毕业生和父母同住，由此可见，被称为“回巢族”的一代正在兴起。
- boomerang (n.) "missile weapon used by Australian aborigines," 1827, adapted from an extinct Aboriginal languages of New South Wales, Australia. Another variant, perhaps, was wo-mur-rang (1798).
- boomerang (v.) 1880, "to throw a boomerang," from boomerang (n.). Figurative sense "fly back to the starting point" is from 1900.
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