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单词 get/take/have the measure of sb/sthg
释义
get/take/have the measure of sb/sthg
phrase
If you get or take the measure of someone or something, you discover what they are like, so that you are able to control them or deal with them. If you have the measure of someone or something, you have succeeded in doing this.
The governments of the industrialized world had failed to get the measure of the crisis.
Has he taken the measure of us and concluded that we're not willing to risk a life?
Lili was the only person I knew who had the measure of her brother.
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