| 单词 | to get through |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto get through to get through 1. a. intransitive. To succeed in passing through a passage, barrier, obstacle, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement over, across, through, or past > [verb (intransitive)] to come overeOE passc1300 to pass byc1390 overwend?a1400 to go over1415 to pass througha1425 overdrawa1450 to make over1488 to get overa1500 transita1500 transire1592 to make through1606 transpass1626 to get through1694 1577 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. Ephesians i. f. 36 God..will haue vs too passe by this world through the midds of thornes and breers, so as wee shall haue much a doo to get through. 1664 tr. F. Plater et al. Golden Pract. Physick (new ed.) ii. v. 253 To Cure an Ulcer in the Ear, a Fume is excellent, because it gets through and drieth. 1694 Acct. Several Late Voy. (1711) ii. 13 The Ice was already-fixed to the Land, so that we could but just get through. 1720 J. Quincy Medico-Physical Ess. iv. 61 in tr. S. Santorio Medicina Statica (ed. 2) What..cannot get through this way..must be either re-absorbed, or taken back by the refluent Blood. 1798 A. L. Barnard Jrnl. 23 May in Lives of Lindsays (1849) III. 464 A milk-basket..which they weave so close with certain rushes that, after once using, the milk cannot get through. 1807 New Encycl. II. v. 437/2 Fill up the hollow between the two rows with rushes and mud, ramming them together so hard, that no water can possibly get through. 1853 E. Bennett Clara Moreland xxvi. 314 We had several other narrow escapes, but got through in safety. a1927 D. Hammett Man who killed Dan Odams in Nightmare Town (1999) 76 A horse couldn't get through, let alone a car. 1999 J. Elliot Unexpected Light (2000) xi. 404 He guided my fingers to his sternum, where I felt muscles as hard as stone, ‘not even a sword can get through.’ b. transitive. To cause to pass through a passage, barrier, obstacle, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement over, across, through, or past > [verb (transitive)] > through > cause to pass through pass1530 to pass through ——1530 to get through1813 thread1851 1813 J. M. Good et al. Pantologia at Midwifery It will be possible to get hold of a part of the fetus, and so get it through and relieve the woman from danger. 1847 Lloyd's Entertaining Jrnl. 10 Apr. 28/1 Cannot you..give him your shoulder to push against, and that may help him out... You may thus get him through quicker. 1900 A. R. Dugmore Bird Homes v. 26 So that the bird may not be able to get his beak through. 1986 R. Alvarez in Sun Mag. (Baltimore) 12 Oct. 20/4 Inspired by the fashion of his Mexican friends, the look included pants so pegged at the ankles that one could hardly get his foot through. 1990 M. Harris Hemingway's Suitcase xl. 278 The door was half ajar and she kicked it..open..so she could get the wheelchair through. 2. a. intransitive. To reach a destination; to complete an activity; to endure an experience. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > completing > complete or conclude action [verb (intransitive)] enda1340 finisha1400 conclude1526 to get through1589 get1594 dispatcha1616 to shut up1626 to wind up1631 finale1797 to top off1836 to top up1837 through1894 to roll up1963 society > travel > aspects of travel > arrival > arrive [verb (intransitive)] to come toOE comeOE yworthOE lend11.. lightc1225 overtakec1225 redea1275 wina1300 'rivec1300 repaira1325 applyc1384 to come ina1399 arrivec1400 attainc1400 alightc1405 to come to handc1450 unto-comec1450 apport1578 to get through1589 reach1591 to be along1597 land1679 engage1686 to get in1863 to breeze in1930 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement towards a thing, person, or position > reaching a point or place > reach a point or place [verb (intransitive)] overtakec1225 covera1375 accede1465 penetrate1530 to get through1589 pervene1589 reach1591 1589 P. Ive tr. R. Beccarie de Pavie Instr. Warres 132 But what one way and other, they did so get through, that they assembled at the townes that were appointed them by their principall Chiefe. 1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World ix. 273 Others have spent the Summer, in first searching on this more known side nearer home, and so before they got through, the time of the year obliged them to give over their search. 1744 W. Horsley Treat. on Maritime Affairs 93 The superficial Reader would have dosed before he had got half through. 1787 J. Q. Adams Diary 19 Feb. (1981) II. 163 He was rather tedious, and before he got through, the Sophimores and Freshmen, shew their impatience, by shuffling. 1848 E. Bennett Renegade xii. 92 You must get through alive, or else not at all; for we can't spare you quite so soon. 1885 U. S. Grant Pers. Mem. I. 411 Troops after a forced march of twenty miles are not in a good condition for fighting the moment they get through. 1943 Ld. Alanbrooke Diary 4 Feb. in War Diaries (2001) 378 They had just succeeded in bringing in a 2,900 ton ship, the first to get through. 2004 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 2 May a12 As with rapids farther upstream, pilots had to be taken on board to get through. b. intransitive. to get through with: to succeed in accomplishing, completing, or enduring. ΚΠ a1632 A. Hildersam CLII Lect. Psalme LI (1635) cxl. 735 As their tryals shall increase, so shall their strength increase to beare and get through with them. 1666 S. Pepys Diary 2 Apr. (1895) X. 245 So home, and to my accounts which I cannot get through with. a1739 C. Jarvis tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote (1742) II. i. xv. 72 It is easy to design and begin an enterprize, but very often difficult to get through with it. 1839 A. Constable Let. 4 Feb. in J. Constable Corr. (1962) 306 Your Uncle Golding's affairs I have not got through with yet. 1870 B. Harte Luck of Roaring Camp & Other Sketches 2 Bets were freely offered and taken..that ‘Sal would get through with it’. 1878 Scribner's Monthly 15 866/1 You would be surprised to know the number of books young girls manage to get through with. 1888 J. McCarthy & R. C. Praed Ladies' Gallery II. xii. 234 I must have had pretty well all the heart-throbs a sinful man could get through with. 1893 Punch 29 Apr. 199 Don't know how I should get through with my work, if I were tied down to eight hours a day. 1941 D. F. Swenson tr. S. Kierkegaard Concluding Unscientific Postscript ii. ii. 146 It is not the zealous individual but only the restless one who manages to get through with life before life gets through with him. 1961 F. O'Connor Let. 21 Jan. in Habit of Being (1980) 427 When the psychiatrist got through with her, her emotions flowed magnificently and she believes nothing and herself is her God. 2010 J. Wendt Nice Work vii. 178 If you didn't get through with the sculpture that was one thing; if you didn't get through with building your character that was another. c. transitive. To cause to reach a destination; to bring to completion; to enable to endure an experience. Also: †to bring about the acquittal of (obsolete). ΚΠ 1833 J. J. Abert Let. 24 Nov. in Corr. Emigration of Indians (1835) IV. 734 This will be rather a worrying job, but patience and perseverance will get it through. 1860 J. Funnell Poet. Dialogues 52 He told him, too, he could not get him through, But sent him to a lawyer whom he knew Could plead in such a case whene'er desired. 1865 Rep. Trade with Rebellious States (U.S. House of Representatives, 38th Congr., 2nd Sess.) 103 They represented to me that Tucker could get to Richmond if he could procure a permit to take some cotton through. They wanted a permit to get him through. 1866 Rural Amer. (Utica, N.Y.) 15 Mar. 84/3 Having no corn..will it do to feed fresh cows rye chop and oats unground, to get them safe through to pasture? 1908 Mod. Business Sept. 165/1 If a merchant can, by bulking several parcels, get them through at a much lower rate. 1937 Boys' Life Dec. 46/2 I paid good money for my ticket..and it's up to the bus company to get me through. 1955 E. A. Powell Adventure Road xiv. 99 But if you get the news through you'll find the [New York]World very generous. 1989 K. Smith Inside Time xxvii. 153 And me with not a fucking brass farthing to get me through to fucking Christmas. 2011 N.Y. Times Mag. 24 July 34/1 What really got them through was cocaine. 3. a. intransitive. Of a bill: to pass in a legislative assembly. ΚΠ 1722 R. Wodrow Hist. Sufferings Church of Scotl. II. x. 597 A Declaration..from the English Judges,..much more useful for the inbringing of Popery and arbitrary Power, than our Scots Act of Parliament would have been, though it had got through. 1828 Niles' Weekly Reg. 29 Mar. 78/1 The prospect is a gloomy one; even if a favorable law gets through, the manufacturers will have to wade through most discouraging difficulties. 1890 T. F. Tout in F. Y. Powell et al. Hist. Eng. III. 175 The Irish Tithe Bill..got through at last, though much cut about by the Opposition. 1950 Kiplinger Mag. May 3/1 The bills that can't be postponed and the politically ‘safe’ bills are getting through, but little else. 2001 B. Ames Deadlock of Democracy in Brazil 236 The Congress may ultimately approve a proposal, but almost nothing gets through quickly. b. transitive. To secure the implementation of (a bill or other political measure). ΚΠ 1757 Parl. Hist. Eng. XX. 189 The House..revived the Consideration of the Bill, never got through in the last Parliament. 1786 T. Jefferson Let. 14 Dec. in Papers (1954) X. 595 I am glad to hear my bill of scantling is nearly got through. 1859 S. Smith My Thirty Years out of Senate lxii. 320 If we could get that bill through, it would be of immense importance to us and our friends for a good many years to come. 1873 ‘M. Twain’ & C. D. Warner Gilded Age xx. 190 The Senator..favored the appropriation and he gave the Colonel..to understand that he would endeavor to get it through. 1900 Congress. Rec. 6 Feb. 1556/2 No such disfranchising scheme as this could ever be gotten through a Democratic caucus. 1970 H. Fish in S. Terkel Hard Times (2000) 288 I wrote and got through a bill creating the Un-American Activities Committee, which came a few years later, chairmaned by Mr. Dies of Texas. 2010 I. Kabashima & G. Steel Changing Politics in Japan vi. 116 To get his proposals through, Koizumi had to battle stiff resistance from toll-road corporations. 4. intransitive. To succeed in an examination. ΘΚΠ society > education > educational administration > examination > examine [verb (intransitive)] > pass examination to get through1805 through1830 pass1843 to shave through1860 scratch1890 1805 Port Folio 25 May 153/3 I was admitted to an examination. How I got through I know not; for, worthy sir, I have not..sufficient ‘science in the law’ to enable me to discriminate when I answered right or when wrong. 1854 ‘C. Bede’ Further Adventures Mr. Verdant Green (ed. 2) xi. 100 So you see, Gig lamps, I'm safe to get through!—it's impossible for them to plough me, with all these contrivances. 1895 A. F. Warr in Law Times 99 547/1 An articled clerk of average sharpness may rely upon getting through with three month's coaching. 1978 Times of India 9 Jan. 12/3 You will be able to accomplish whatever you attempt. Students can hope to get through with distinction. 2012 Irish Times (Nexis) 14 Feb. (Health section) 6 A young person who felt diminished by a poor exam result knuckles down and gets through on the repeat. 5. a. transitive. To send or receive (a message) by telegraph, radio, or telephone. ΘΚΠ society > communication > telecommunication > [verb (transitive)] > transmit or relay to get through1819 relay1872 transmit1877 uplink1975 downlink1978 1819 J. Macdonald Circumstantial Acct. Exper. 247 They get over the ground, as will a powerless Telegraph get through a communication, by tediously hammering out..the figures or letters one by one. 1860 W. S. Russell Remarks in Reply to Statement Messrs. Hewitt, Field, Raymond & Others 58 But they could not get their messages through to New York; the old American Telegraph Company refused to send them. 1912 Chambers's Jrnl. Jan. 61/2 When several ships are ‘talking’ to the shore-station, some delay may arise in getting a message through. 1916 ‘B. Cable’ Action Front 189 They haven't had time since they got my message through. 1938 Life 6 June 38/1 Then the search was for means of getting radio messages through in spite of ‘atmospherics’. 1994 J. Birmingham He died with Felafel in his Hand (1997) iii. 61 He got a phone call through to a friend in Canberra, also called Tim, who worked for Defence Intelligence. b. intransitive. To establish communication by radio or telephone. ΘΚΠ society > communication > telecommunication > [verb (intransitive)] to get through1886 1886 Manch. Guardian 21 Apr. 4/6 Everybody knows that the only advantage of a telephone consists in quickly getting ‘through’. 1895 A. R. Bennett Telephone Syst. Europe 11 The delay and uncertainty in getting through would probably deter him from using the telephone at all. 1902 M. Beerbohm in Sat. Rev. 27 Dec. 805/1 We feel..that he has rung up a messenger-boy after failing to ‘get through’ on the telephone. 1916 ‘B. Cable’ Action Front 188 The signallers leaped to their instruments, buzzed off the call, and getting through, rattled their messages off. 1929 L. Rea Six Mrs. Greenes 257 ‘Lavinia dear,’ she began as soon as she got through, ‘I want you to help me a little to-night.’ 1954 G. Durrell Three Singles to Adventure iv. 85 I tried to contact McTurk to let him know that we were coming, but I could not get through. 2010 S. Thirsk Not quite White (2011) 118 She may be trying to phone in. The mobile networks are solid. You were fluky to be getting through. 6. intransitive. colloquial. With to: to reach the attention or understanding of (someone); to communicate with. ΘΚΠ society > communication > [verb (transitive)] > communicate with to get to ——1853 to get on to ——1879 reach1886 to get through1917 contact1927 1917 Spectator 26 May 584/2 Then the doctor would emit a curious whistle, the only sound which could get through to her, and nod and smile. 1962 J. Braine Life at Top iii. 54 He had defeated me; I couldn't think up any way to get through to him. 1969 A. Hunter Gently Coloured ii. 14 You don't have to answer them, but you can do. Am I getting through to you, Osgood? 2003 S. Brett Murder in Museum vi. 53 He remained hypersensitive and twitchy, but Jude liked to think that she had begun to get through to him. to get through —— to get through —— Cf. to get through at Phrasal verbs 1. 1. intransitive. a. To reach the end of, bring to a conclusion, accomplish (a task, etc.). ΚΠ 1602 J. Hayward Serm. Steward's Danger 43 Thus are wee now got through the first verse of our text. 1661 A. Marvell Let. 27 June in Poems & Lett. (1971) II. 33 We are not yet got through the bill of Corporations to haue it ingrossd. 1782 London Mag. Oct. 460/1 Lady Catterwaul was teized to sing, and she got through ‘Non temen’, &c. as well a good church yard cough, and a tolerable astmatic [sic] wheeze would permit. 1850 Tait's Edinb. Mag. Aug. 463/2 He managed to get through four good meals. 1860 ‘G. Eliot’ Mill on Floss I. ii. i. 264 He got through his supines without mistake. 1889 J. Masterman Scotts of Bestminster I. vi. 194 He therefore got through his business as quickly as he could. 1903 W. B. Yeats Let. 6 Dec. (1994) III. 478 Please forgive me for dictating this letter, but I am up to my ears in occupations and must get through my work as quickly as possible. 1935 Z. N. Hurston Mules & Men i. i. 27 You sure going to Wood Bridge with us after Ah git thru tellin' this one? 1942 R. L. Haig-Brown Timber xix. 278 ‘They're rich,’ Julie said. ‘They own oil. That's how Ron got his start so soon after getting through college.’ 2004 All about Soap 23 Oct. 66/3 I tried to get through the scene, but in the end I just gave up and we had to do a retake. b. To pass (an examination). ΚΠ 1829 Scots. Mag. Mar. 218 A knowledge of what has been laid down in the lectures is by no means necessary to enable a student to get through these examinations. 1840 J. T. J. Hewlett Peter Priggins xvi, in New Monthly Mag. Getting through his great-go by a shave. 1894 J. Mackenzie tr. V. M. Garshine in Gentleman's Mag. July 16 ‘Congratulate you on what?’ ‘I have just got through my exams. for the Teaching Seminary.’ 1969 ‘C. Fremlin’ Possession xvii. 137 Janice said what about her revising?.. How could she ever get through her Mocks next term? 1992 S. Fry Paperweight (1993) 141 There are lots of children relying on you to help them get through their exams. ΚΠ 1838 Rep. Select Comm. Manor Courts, Ireland 27 in Parl. Papers 1837–8 (H.C. 648) XVII. 1 Generally they got through the court, and with the adjudication in their pocket they never paid their debts. 1855 D. Costello Stories from Screen 82 As to the Court, if you did get through it..you'd be worse off when you came out than when you went in. 2. intransitive. Of a bill: to be passed by (a legislative assembly). ΘΚΠ society > law > legislation > make (a) law(s [verb (intransitive)] > be passed into law pass1454 to pass the seals1710 to get through ——1718 1718 L. Echard Hist. Eng. (new ed.) III. i. ii. 173 During these Divisions between the Houses, the King under-standing the Poll-Bill, and some others, to have got through both..came to the House of Peers. 1718 L. Echard Hist. Eng. (new ed.) III. i. iv. 316 It [sc. a bill] did not get through the House of Lords. 1845 Economist 10 May 439/1 On the same night the Maynooth Bill got through Committee, subjected to an opposition on the pure voluntary system by Mr Crawford and only three other members. 1890 T. F. Tout in F. Y. Powell et al. Hist. Eng. III. 168 A new Reform Bill had got through the Commons by more than a hundred majority. 1931 Science 13 Mar. 279/2 The Everglades National Park bill failed to get through the House, though it passed the Senate. 2011 Sun (Nexis) 4 Apr. 2 Insiders say the Bill will need major surgery to get through the House of Lords where concerned peers have met with experts who oppose the proposals. 3. intransitive. To succeed in passing (time); esp. to find occupation for (a period of time), so as to escape boredom. Cf. to get over —— 2 at Phrasal verbs 2. ΘΚΠ the world > time > spending time > spend time or allow time to pass [verb (transitive)] overdoOE adreeOE wreaka1300 to draw forthc1300 dispend1340 pass1340 drivea1375 wastec1381 occupyc1384 overpassa1387 to pass over ——a1393 usec1400 spend1423 contrive?a1475 overdrive1487 consumea1500 to pass forth1509 to drive off1517 lead1523 to ride out1529 to wear out, forth1530 to pass away?1550 to put offc1550 shiftc1562 to tire out1563 wear1567 to drive out1570 entertainc1570 expire1589 tire1589 outwear1590 to see out1590 outrun1592 outgo1595 overshoot1597 to pass out1603 fleeta1616 elapse1654 term1654 trickle1657 to put over1679 absorb1686 spin1696 exercise1711 kill1728 to get through ——1748 to get over ——1751 tickc1870 fill1875 1748 C. Cibber Lady's Lect. 5 Agreements for Life are so apt to put them out of Humour with one another before they get through the first half Year of their Term. 1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey I. 16 Those who..have no other plan in life, but to get through it in sloth and ignorance. 1849 A. Helps Friends in Council II. i. iv. 93 How do you get through the days? 1890 Temple Bar Oct. 145 He gets through the morning tolerably well with letter-writing. 1920 ‘O. Douglas’ Penny Plain xvii. 214 Long, overeaten irritable hours to be got through before bedtime. 1973 N. Freedman Joshua 149 It was a time of waiting. A time to be gotten through. 2012 Daily Tel. 12 Mar. 27/1 He spent six months..wondering how to get through each minute; and if he would ever recover. 4. intransitive. To use up, run through, expend (money). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > using up, expending, or consuming > use up, expend, or consume [verb (transitive)] spend1297 usea1382 costa1400 consumea1527 to make a hole (in anything)1591 absorb1686 to use up1712 expend1745 to use off1812 to get through ——1833 to go through ——1949 1833 Court Jrnl. 13 July 485/3 There is now in Paris an English gentleman, whose income is said to be 14,000l. a-year. As he is not a gambler, he finds it exceedingly difficult to get through his money. 1864 Dublin Univ. Mag. June 678/2 The youth with a broken constitution had got through all his money the very week on which the doctors had appointed him to die. 1903 W. A. Ellis Life Wagner III. iv. 205 By the end of this month I shall have got through all my money. 1958 Economist 11 Oct. 155/1 A racecourse, a dog track, and thirty-nine pubs help the men to get through the £A2,000 a year that many of them have been earning. 1998 Today's Golfer Sept. 22 Get through a small fortune on logoed merchandise, equipment and food and drink. < as lemmas |
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