cotton on
英 [ˈkɒtn ɒn]
美 [ˈkɑːtn ɑːn]
明白; 领悟; 意识到
柯林斯词典
- PHRASAL VERB 明白;领悟;意识到
If youcotton on tosomething, you understand it or realize it, especially without people telling you about it.- She had already cottoned on to the fact that the nanny was not all she appeared...
她已经意识到这个保姆不只是她看起来的那样。 - It wasn't until he started laughing that they cottoned on!
他开始笑起来,他们才明白是怎么回事。
- She had already cottoned on to the fact that the nanny was not all she appeared...
英英释义
verb
- understand, usually after some initial difficulty
- She didn't know what her classmates were plotting but finally caught on
双语例句
- He seems to cotton on quick.
他似乎敏于理解事物。 - She hangs the rolled, twisted cotton string on her nose.
她把揉搓了,缠绕过了的棉花卷放在她的鼻子上。 - But, Tudor Jones first cut his teeth trading cotton on exchanges, where limits were in force. And that colours his views.
但是,琼斯最初是在实施价格限制的交易所棉花交易中获得从业经验的,并由此形成了自己的看法。 - The progress of laboratory and field assessment of Bt corn and cotton on non-target arthropods and resistance management of target insects were reviewed in this article.
本文在大量室内和田间评价工作的基础上,系统综述了国内外研究在该领域内取得的进展。 - It wasn't until he started laughing that they cottoned on!
他开始笑起来,他们才明白是怎么回事。 - The weaving of hand-woven coarse cloth is extremely complex, and there are72 working procedures from picking cotton and spinning to weaving cotton on the machine.
手织老粗布的织造工艺极为复杂,从采棉纺线到上机织布,要经过大大小小72道工序。 - Effect of Transgenic Cotton on the Population Dynamics of Insect in Sichuan Cotton Region
四川棉区转基因抗虫棉对棉田昆虫群落的影响 - Declaring the end of the worst of winter, I put the white cotton slipcover on the sofa and replaced the heavier oriental rug with a lighter jute rug.
宣告结束的冬季最糟糕的,我把沙发上的白棉沙发套,代之以用打火机黄麻地毯较重的东方地毯。 - The impacts of transgenic cotton on soil microbes 'kanamycin resistance
转基因棉花种植对土壤卡那霉素抗性细菌多样性的影响 - It took me a while to cotton on to what was happening.
过了一会我才明白发生了什么事。