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单词 cope
释义

cope1

/kəʊp /
verb [no object]
1(Of a person) deal effectively with something difficult: his ability to cope with stress it all got too much for me and I couldn’t cope...
  • All I can say about it is nice people are easy to deal with and unpleasant people are much more difficult to cope with.
  • Urban and rural dwellers have adopted creative survival strategies, that have helped them cope with difficult times.
  • In a police interview the 39-year-old unemployed man, who is not being identified for legal reasons, admitted he found it difficult to cope with the children.

Synonyms

manage, survive, subsist, look after oneself, fend for oneself, shift for oneself, stand on one's own two feet, carry on, get through, get on, get along, get by, muddle through, muddle along, scrape by, bear up, make the grade, come through, hold one's own, keep one's end up, keep one's head above water, keep the wolf from the door, weather the storm
informal make out, hack it, paddle one's own canoe
informal rub along
deal with, handle, manage, address, face, face up to, confront, tackle, sort out, take care of, take in hand, get to grips with, contend with, grapple with, wrestle with, struggle with, tussle with;
put up with, get through, weather, endure, withstand, stand up to, bear, brave, accept, come to terms with;
master, overcome, surmount, get over, get the better of, beat
informal stomach, swallow
1.1(Of a machine or system) have the capacity to deal successfully with: the roads are barely adequate to cope with the present traffic...
  • At this time of year, we are at our most busiest and occasionally, we get more film in than the printer processing machine can cope with.
  • This is not to say the court system couldn't cope with some reform to deal with new situations.
  • Research indicates that something as simple as drinking a liter of sports drink per hour appears to help the immune system cope with intense exercise.

Origin

Middle English (in the sense 'meet in battle, come to blows'): from Old French coper, colper, from cop, colp 'a blow', via Latin from Greek kolaphos 'blow with the fist'.

  • Nowadays to cope with something is to manage or deal with it effectively, but the word used to mean ‘to meet in battle’ or ‘to come to blows’. Its source is the Latin word colpus ‘a blow’, which is also the root of coup (Late Middle English), ‘a sudden seizure of power from a government’ often used in its French form coup d'état (mid 17th century). Coppice (Late Middle English), woodland where the trees have regularly been cut back, and its shortening copse (late 16th century) also go back to colpus, from the idea that they have been cut back with blows.

Rhymes

cope2

/kəʊp /
noun
1A long, loose cloak worn by a priest or bishop on ceremonial occasions.Here she was vested in her robes of state and was met by the bishop who was to perform the ceremony, with all the chapel Royal in their copes, the bishop mitred....
  • Made between 1300 and 1320, the cope would have been worn by a high-ranking priest or bishop.
  • Saints embroidered in metallic and silk threads decorate the orphrey, the ornamental band along the top of the cope as pictured here.
1.1 technical or literary A thing resembling or likened to a cloak: the outer shell of clay is called the cope
verb [with object]
(In building) cover (a joint or structure) with a coping: (as adjective coped) a coped joint

Origin

Middle English (denoting a long outdoor cloak): from medieval Latin capa, variant of late Latin cappa (see cap1 and cape1).

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