1. Rotate（轮换/轮转） -- 核心语义：强调循环性、周期性的顺序更替 -- 典型用法： * 人员轮换：The committee members rotate annually.（委员会成员每年轮换一次） * 机械转动：The earth rotates on its axis.（地球绕地轴自转） * 岗位轮岗：We rotate shifts every week.（我们每 ...(以上内容有节略,please sign in for more)
Rotate, 【alternate】 can both mean to succeed or cause to succeed each other in turn.
Rotate may be used in reference to two or more persons or things; it implies indefinite repetition of the order of succession.
Thus, persons rotate in jobs or offices when they periodically interchange their jobs or offices according, usually, to a predetermined scheme; one rotates crops who grows different things on the same land in successive seasons in an order calculated to maintain soil fertility or to enrich exhausted soil.
【Alternate】 differs from rotate in being referable only to two persons or things; though it also implies repetition of the order, it does not convey so strong a suggestion of continuity.
