The pilot, whether by accident or design, made the plane do a sharp turn.

飞行员不知是有意或无意，让飞机来了个急转弯。

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Her condition took a sharp turn for the worse.

她的病情突然急剧恶化。

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Marks in the roadway seem to indicate that he skidded taking a sharp turn.

从车道上的痕迹看，他似乎在急转弯时打滑了。

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The Confederates had placed cannon all along the sharp turn in the river.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

Obviously, it goes without saying that today the assessment of Milton as some kind of imminent social threat or some sort of social force in terms of the radical nature of political power - that has taken a sharp turn.

显然--这是不言而喻的--现在，这一种基于弥尔顿,政治力量的激进性而把他看做是,危险的社会威胁或社会力量的观点,已经有了180度大转弯。

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But their most important job is to whistle,shout,flap their arms and run about crazily to turn the attention of an unhappy, with sharp horns away from a fallen rider.

VOA: standard.2010.01.25

The little girl next to me seemed almost to gasp at the sharp turn of events.

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Within seconds, bond and equity markets, which had rallied strongly, took a sharp turn to the downside.

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However, if markets, or the economy, take a sharp turn for the worse, investors may not be so brave.

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