| 单词 | to get around |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto get around to get around 1. intransitive. a. Esp. of news, a report, etc.: to go round, to circulate. Chiefly U.S. ΘΚΠ society > travel > [verb (intransitive)] > travel about or visit many places runeOE to go aboutc1300 passc1400 discur1557 dispace1588 perambulate1607 to get about1776 to go around1796 to get around1798 circulate1848 society > leisure > social event > [verb (intransitive)] > participate in social events show1631 racket1650 to go into society1788 to get around1798 socialize1841 butterfly1855 circulate1856 1798 W. Ridgeway Rep. Proc. in Cases of High Treason, 148 After a small interval from the first enaction of any law in Great Britain, the dreams of fancy get around, and the law is lost in the mass of absurd comment. 1834 W. P. Hawes Legend Brick-house Creek in Atlantic Club-bk. I. 306 The report soon got around that Jaac had had an interview with old Colonel Tom. 1935 Fortune Aug. 60/1 The report got around that the town of Baguio..was built upon great veins of gold-bearing ore. 1951 M. McLuhan Mech. Bride 60/2 The news got around fast. 2004 S. Mehta Maximum City 438 Word got around in the small town that they were having some sort of affair. b. To move about (originally esp. after incapacitation: cf. to get about 2a at Phrasal verbs 1), to travel about. Also: to go out socially a great deal; to have numerous intimate relationships. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > move [verb (intransitive)] stira1000 icchec1175 wag?c1225 movea1325 routa1325 to-wawea1375 removea1400 sway?a1400 trotc1430 ayrec1440 quinch1511 walk1533 twitch1542 shift1595 jee1727 to get around1849 society > travel > [verb (intransitive)] nimeOE becomec885 teec888 goeOE i-goc900 lithec900 wendeOE i-farec950 yongc950 to wend one's streetOE fare971 i-wende971 shakeOE winda1000 meteOE wendOE strikec1175 seekc1200 wevec1200 drawa1225 stira1225 glidea1275 kenc1275 movec1275 teemc1275 tightc1275 till1297 chevec1300 strake13.. travelc1300 choosec1320 to choose one's gatea1325 journeyc1330 reachc1330 repairc1330 wisec1330 cairc1340 covera1375 dressa1375 passa1375 tenda1375 puta1382 proceedc1392 doa1400 fanda1400 haunta1400 snya1400 take?a1400 thrilla1400 trace?a1400 trinea1400 fangc1400 to make (also have) resortc1425 to make one's repair (to)c1425 resort1429 ayrec1440 havea1450 speer?c1450 rokec1475 wina1500 hent1508 persevere?1521 pursuec1540 rechec1540 yede1563 bing1567 march1568 to go one's ways1581 groyl1582 yode1587 sally1590 track1590 way1596 frame1609 trickle1629 recur1654 wag1684 fadge1694 haul1802 hike1809 to get around1849 riddle1856 bat1867 biff1923 truck1925 1849 Prairie Du Chien (Wisconsin) Patriot 28 Nov. 3/6 (advt.) Hearing of your Ointment..I went and got a box, and applied it according to directions...I have..used it on a cow that had the Hollow Horn so bad that she could not get around without help...Five applications restored her to perfect health. 1867 J. Carroll Case & his Cotemporaries I. ii. 77 In many places there were trees fallen across the path, which made it difficult in getting around in deep snow. 1886 Railway Conductors' Monthly Nov. 657 Bro. Sam Phipps..has been on the sick list for the past week or so, but I understand he is getting around once more. 1916 C. J. Marshall Diary 6 Apr. in Gen. Mag. & Hist. Chron. (Univ. Pennsylvania) Apr. (1942) 317 It is much harder to get things or to get around here than it is in London. 1921 Northeastern Reporter 131 666/1 He gradually grew weaker, and his ability to get around diminished until he was unable to get around unassisted for the last month or six weeks of his life. 1928 Amer. Speech 3 219 Get around, to..have many desirable dates. ‘Mary Jane sure did get around last semester.’ 1958 R. Galton & A. Simpson Hancock's Half-hour (1987) 121 He gets around doesn't he?..You wouldn't think he'd attract women with a hooter like that. 1959 Times Lit. Suppl. 20 Mar. 159/3 Still, Mr. Donnelly has got around... He makes his way to places like Tashkent, Samarkand and Alma Ata. 2011 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 26 May 16/4 I..clamber aboard a 1956 Oldsmobile that, despite its veteran status, is the kind of vehicle most people use to get around. 2. intransitive. To pass from one place to another by a roundabout or circuitous route. Now rare. ΚΠ 1817 Monthly Mag. July 526/2 They succeeded, however, after much difficulty, in getting around to the bay opposite to their ships, where other boats were sent to their relief. 1875 E. P. Roe From Jest to Earnest xxvi. 365 No, we have not time, the tide is running very swiftly. The ice would close on us before we could get around. 1904 Horseless Age 5 Oct. 349/2 At another washout we could not get around, and had to hunt up some planks and run on them over a break in the road. 2006 S. M. Stirling Meeting at Corvallis xviii. 470 You told me that you didn't think the Mackenzies could get around north of you. 3. intransitive. With to: to succeed in finding the time, energy, or inclination for (doing something); = to get round 3 at Phrasal verbs 1. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > doing > do [verb (transitive)] > come to the point of doing to get around1852 to get round1873 1852 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Daily Sentinel 24 Mar. Well! Well! our democratic friends will get around to the good old doctrine of the second Adams and all Whigs since his time, after much tribulation and twisting. 1887 M. E. Wilkins Humble Romance 35 There has been a good many things I haven't got around to. 1930 C. Ward Dutch & Swedes on Delaware 117 Although he had not yet got around to proselyting the Indians..the energy of this man-mountain had been effectively utilized. 1952 Manch. Guardian Weekly 9 Oct. 7/3 They tended to get rubbed out before he got around to it. 2004 A. McCall Smith Sunday Philos. Club xviii. 199 She'll get around to forgiving you in due course, but it will be easier if you've left the door open. to get around —— to get around —— intransitive. Originally U.S. = to get round —— at Phrasal verbs 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > resolving of problem, solution > find solution, solve [verb (transitive)] findOE assoilc1374 soil1382 contrive1393 to find outc1405 resolvea1438 absolvea1525 solute?1531 solve?1541 dissolve1549 get1559 salvec1571 to beat out1577 sort1581 explicate1582 untiea1586 loose1596 unsolve1631 cracka1640 unscruple1647 metagrobolize1653 to puzzle out1717 to work out1719 to get around ——1803 to dope out1906 lick1946 to get out1951 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 1803 National Intelligencer & Washington Advertiser 4 Nov. The gentleman thus surmounts, or gets around his own doctrine, and opposes a treaty as effectively as if he had never supported the position. 1875 H. B. Stowe We & our Neighbors iii. 38 Eva is my girl; I sha'n't let anyone get around her. 1875 ‘M. Twain’ in Atlantic Monthly Mar. 283/2 This has got to be learned; there isn't any getting around it. 1894 ‘M. Twain’ Those Extraordinary Twins iv, in Pudd'nhead Wilson (new ed.) 362 There is no getting around proof like that. 1936 B. Spewack & S. Spewack Spring Song iii. i. in Boy meets Girl 199 Trying to get around me now, huh? Trying to make me feel sorry for you so I'll go through with it... Not a chance! 1968 Economist 14 Sept. 27 Censorship is now operating... the Czech papers succeeded in getting around this by reporting, poker-faced and without comment, what the ‘socialist’ press is saying. 2003 Bowling Digest June 16/2 [Tenpin bowling], as legend or fact has it, was invented in 1841 in Connecticut as a way of getting around a puritanical law that banned nine-pin bowling. < as lemmas |
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