单词 | get round |
释义 | > as lemmasto get round to get round 1. intransitive. To succeed in passing from one place to another by a roundabout or circuitous route; to pass through a number of places on a circuit; (also) (of a rumour, etc.) to circulate. Also: to move by rotation. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > move in a certain direction [verb (intransitive)] > from place to place to get round1653 circulate1691 1653 T. Taylor Moses & Aaron xxiv. 294 Even in Countries, above a hundred yeares reformed, it [sc. Popery] gets round? 1677 E. Coles Eng. Dict. (new ed.) at Shingles A heat arising in the body, if it get round, it kills. 1679 Earl of Castlemaine Eng. Globe i. v. 31 Never having the Sun but on one side of them (as still setting before he gets round). 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. iv. 160 Pizarro's squadron..had got round into these seas. 1756 J. Ferguson Astron. Explained iv. 55 When the planet has got round to B, it's projectile force is as much diminished..as it was augmented. 1842 J. F. Cooper Two Admirals II. x. 151 They got round, and headed north-north-east. 1858 R. T. S. Lowell New Priest in Conception Bay xx. 182 The vane of suspicion having, within twenty-four hours,..got round, and pointed straight to Mr. Urston's house. 1887 W. B. Allen Northern Cross xi. 139 Somehow the word got round that mischief was brewing between the Second Class and the Third. 1930 Oxf. Ann. Girls 26/2 The street beyond..grew steadily narrower... Some of the corners were so sharp that it was only by repeated tackings of an inch or so at a time that we were able to get round. 1968 A. S. C. Ross in Proc. Leeds Philos. & Lit. Soc. (Lit. & Hist. Section) 13 ii. 59 The player who had got round most times..might be the winner. 1973 ‘B. Mather’ Snowline x. 116 How long do you think I'd last if word got round that I'd been snouting? 2008 F. Ashbee Child in Jerusalem xviii. 109 After that, September and the other months with long names filled up the year till you got round to Christmas and January again. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > recovery > recover or be healed [verb (intransitive)] wholeeOE botenc1225 cover1297 amendc1325 recovera1375 warisha1386 recovera1387 healc1390 recurec1400 soundc1402 mendc1440 convalesce1483 guarish1489 restore1494 refete?a1505 revert1531 to gather (or pick) up one's crumbs1589 cure1597 recruit1644 to perk upa1656 retrieve1675 to pick up1740 to leave one's bed1742 to sit up and take nourishment1796 to get round1798 to come round1818 to pull through1830 rally1831 to fetch round1870 to mend up1877 to pull round1889 recoup1896 recuperate1897 1798 D. Crawford Poems 88 It's dung me fairly down, Nor ken I, gin I'll e'er get roun! 1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days ii. vi. 349 Did they tell you..that poor Thompson died last week? The other three boys are getting quite round, like you. 1885 C. L. Pirkis Lady Lovelace III. xli. 64 She would get round fifty times as quickly in the lighter, brighter room. 3. intransitive. With to: to succeed in finding the time, energy, or inclination for (doing something); to come to the point of dealing with. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > doing > do [verb (transitive)] > come to the point of doing to get around1852 to get round1873 1873 Rep. Vt. Central Railroad Managem. 202 Then when I got round to it I would make out a voucher and take up my receipts. 1946 K. Tennant Lost Haven (1947) xiv. 221 Everything in Lost Haven was put off until someone should have enough time to ‘get round to it’. 1961 J. Seymour Fat of Land viii. 106 Our neighbour Richard cans hares, but we never got round to that. 1967 K. Giles Death in Diamonds viii. 145 He must take Elizabeth there for a weekend, he resolved, with a slight undertone of sadness at the thought he would probably never get round to it. 2001 B. Broady In this Block there lives Slag 117 There was so much cooking, cleaning, doling out pocket money, rowing over TV programmes that we never got round to doing any proper work. to get round —— to get round —— Cf. to get round at Phrasal verbs 1. 1. intransitive. To induce (a person) to relax or abandon his or her reluctance, caution, or resistance; to circumvent, get the better of; to win round. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > deception by illusion, delusion > speech intended to deceive > beguile, cajole [verb (transitive)] bicharrea1100 fodea1375 begoc1380 inveiglea1513 to hold in halsc1560 to get within ——1572 cajole1645 to cajole with1665 butter1725 veigle1745 flummer1764 to get round ——1780 to come round ——1784 to get around ——1803 flatter-blind1818 salve1825 to come about1829 round1854 canoodle1864 moody1934 fanny1938 cosy1939 mamaguy1939 snow1943 snow-job1962 1780 Earl of Malmesbury Diaries & Corr. (1844) I. 309 The French are indefatigable in the pains they take to get round the Empress. 1804 T. G. Fessenden Orig. Poems 40 But Tabby was terribly wroth To think he should think to get round her. 1848 G. F. Ruxton Life in Far West iii, in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Aug. 130/2 One from the Land of Cakes..sought to ‘get round’ (in trade) a right ‘smart’ Yankee, but couldn't ‘shine’. 1885 ‘F. Anstey’ Tinted Venus 40 I must..ask her for the ring, very polite and civil, and try if I can't get round her that way. 1890 Harper's Mag. Nov. 963/2 She probably managed to get round him in various ways. 1934 G. B. Shaw Too True to be Good iii. 102 You think you can get round me by pretending to be my daughter; but that just shews what a fool you are; for I hate my daughter and my daughter hates me. a1956 K. Sekyi Blinkards (1974) i. ii. 38 So you want to get round the old man? All right, come to my office tomorrow. 2000 H. Simpson Hey Yeah Right (2001) 161 And don't think you're going to get round me like that. 2. intransitive. To evade (a difficulty); to solve or deal successfully with (a problem). ΚΠ 1801 F. Ames in Mercury & New-Eng. Palladium 4 Dec. 1/4 That one great barrier of the constitution..may be subverted indirectly though not directly. The democrats cannot get over it; but they say they will get roundit. 1854 Merry's Museum 27 374/2 Please don't attempt to get round the question..by denying the facts, but meet it fair and square on its logical merits. 1896 Westm. Gaz. 24 July 1/2 With every change in the rules comes a fresh ingenuity in getting round them. 1934 G. D. H. Cole & M. Cole Guide Mod. Politics ii. iv. 108 Not even American democracy can get round the fact that the fittest in the modern world are commonly those who possess the largest incomes. 1954 A. Skira Degas 54 Degas got round this drawback by using pastels instead of oils. 1971 G. Moore tr. M. Beti Poor Christ of Bomba ii. 101 ‘But the chief knows that the legal maximum is five hundred francs.’ ‘Don't be a donkey, my dear Vidal. You know that the natives always find ways of getting round that.’ 1988 J. Trefil Dark Side of Universe xi. 152 To get round this disparity, superstring theorists postulate that [etc.]. 2008 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 18 July 23 A bar is trying to get round the ban on smoking..by declaring itself part of the One and Universal Smokers' Church of God. < as lemmas |
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