(also take it in turns)British EnglishBrESHARE if two or more people take turns doing work, using something etc, they do it one after the other, for example in order to share the work or play fairly 轮流,依次
You’ll have to take turns on the swing.
你们得轮流荡秋千。
take turns doing something
The students were taking turns reading aloud.
学生正在轮流朗读。
take turns in doing somethingBritish EnglishBrE
We took turns in pushing the bike along.
我们轮流推自行车。
take turns to do something
Dan and I usually take turns to cook.
我和丹通常轮流做饭。
Examples from the Corpus
take turns• Dozens of men and boystake turnstradingshots with him.• Mandy and Debbie took it in turns to look after the baby.• We arranged that we should take turns to cook for whomsoever was on the same watch.• Danskin and Smitty took turnsbehind the wheel and they became more tense as the day passed.• They take turns coming back on weekends to run it.• You'll have to take turns on the swing.• Small children find it almost impossible to take turns.• I asked them to take turns talking about the pictures.• We take turns doing the dishes.• So, instead, they used a large puppet and two actors who take turnsdressing as the chimpanzee.• And in every block the women took turns to watch the street.