| 单词 | to get one's bearings |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto get one's bearings (b) one's bearings: one's position relative to one's surroundings; (hence figurative) an understanding of one's situation or environment. Chiefly in to get one's bearings, to take one's bearings, to lose one's bearings. ΘΚΠ the world > space > direction > point or lie in a direction [verb (intransitive)] > take one's bearings to take one's bearings1852 1852 C. Fox Let. 30 Nov. in Mem. Old Friends (1882) II. 196 When we come upon a perplexing ganglion of paths, [we have to] wait patiently and take our bearings. 1889 ‘M. Twain’ Connecticut Yankee xl. 136 You do feel so strange and stuffy, like somebody else..that has been..struck by lightning..and hasn't quite fetched around, yet,..and can't just get his bearings. 1960 Daily Tel. 19 May 18/3 All that I can do is first of all not get too excited and lose my bearings, or my country loses its bearings. 2000 B. Kingsolver Prodigal Summer xviii. 300 She had to sit up and think for a minute to get her bearings. < as lemmas |
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