| 单词 | to dope out |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto dope out 4. to dope out. extracted from dopev. a. To make out; to find out, discover; to get the truth about. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > understand [verb (transitive)] > thoroughly, with effort through-goOE through-seekOE penetrate?1563 bore1622 bottom1713 to get inside ——1830 underthink1886 to dope out1906 1906 ‘O. Henry’ Four Million (1916) 161 All the same, I believe it was the hand of Fate that doped out the way for me to find her. 1913 E. D. Biggers Seven Keys to Baldpate ii. 31 Ther's something I haven't quite doped out. That is— who's trespassing, me or you? 1914 R. H. Davis With Allies (1915) 10 We would study the morning papers and..from them try to dope out the winners. 1918 C. Wells Vicky Van xv. 180 I dope out all this has to be so. 1919 P. G. Wodehouse Damsel in Distress ii. 30 Nature had it all doped out for me to be the Belle of Hicks Corners. 1922 Short Stories Feb. 102/2 ‘How'd you dope it out, Kid?’ asked one. ‘Tell us how you could do such good detective work.’ 1926 J. Black You can't Win xxiii. 367 I had all the criminal lawyers in San Francisco doped out like race horses by this time. 1943 N. Marsh Colour Scheme v. 94 Uncle James dopes it out that it's been Questing's idea to get this place on his own. b. To work out; to get hold of. ΚΠ 1906 ‘O. Henry’ Four Million (1916) 191 He's doped out a fifty-dollar bill, anyway. 1919 Detective Story Mag. XXVIII. i. 6 He might have doped out a corking yarn about how the Phantom..made everybody believe that the explosion killed him. 1922 Short Stories Feb. 175/2 I didn't have time to dope out any plot till I got back to Denver. < as lemmas |
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