"Turn and turn about" nghĩa là gì?

"Turn and turn about" -> nghĩa là kết thúc và bắt đầu lại theo quy trình liên tiếp một cách đều đặn, phù hợp, nhanh chóng.

Ví dụ

‘I would sit for an hour and Leon would paint me, and then Leon would sit for an hour and I’d paint him — and so we went on all day, turn and turn about’ — Frank Auerbach

At Positron everyone is employed to serve a month as an inmate and a month as staff, turn and turn about. You get everything you want from life, but onchangeover day you go to jail and a couple you are never allowed to meet or know – your “alternates” – live in your beautiful home and eat off your nice plates. It’s a cross between hotdesking and taking in one another’s laundry for a living. No one has committed a crime, but everyone has somehow been rendered guilty.

This loss and its dire financial consequences forged the Blackwell children, perennial (vĩnh viễn, bất diệt) outsiders, into an even more tightknit group, even as they had to scatter in pursuit of careers. One of the chief pleasures of this book is the liveliness of the siblings’ correspondence, revealed in judicious snippets expressing frustration, outlining plans, issuing orders and judgments, sharing joy and love. “Your letters always come to me like a puff (thở phù, lời khen láo) of fresh North wind in a Summer’s day,” Elizabeth wrote to Emily. When they were short of money for paper and postage, they turned the page a quarter-turn and wrote across the lines at an angle, yielding a dense crosshatch (khắc đường chéo song song): an apt metaphor for the way the siblings, who “loved and annoyed each other in equal measure,” would turn and turn about, only to enmesh themselves deeper in one another’s lives.

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