Adverb:

1. without making progress;

   "the candidates talked in circles"
   

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1. If you don't have a clear aim, you can work a long time and still be going in circles.
   如果你没有明确的目标，你可能工作很长时间而全无进展。
2. If you don't have a clear aim, you can work a ling time and still be going in circles.
   若没有明确的目标，你可能会辛辛苦苦而一无进展。
3. Put the chairs in circles and we will play games.
   把椅子摆放成圈，我们要做游戏。
4. No, I haven't finished that job yet-I seem to have spent the whole morning going round in circles, getting nowhere!
   不，我还没干完那项工作呢——整个上午我似乎都在忙来忙去，却忙不出个头绪来。