catch on
英 [kætʃ ɒn]
美 [kætʃ ɑːn]
明白; 懂得; 认识到; 时兴; 流行
柯林斯词典
- PHRASAL VERB 明白;认识到
If youcatch on tosomething, you understand it, or realize that it is happening.- He got what he could out of me before I caught on to the kind of person he'd turned into...
我还没有意识到他已经变成了那样的人，他就已经从我这儿把能套走的都套走了。 - Wait a minute! I'm beginning to catch on.
等一下！我开始有点懂了。
- He got what he could out of me before I caught on to the kind of person he'd turned into...
- PHRASAL VERB 时兴;流行
If somethingcatches on, it becomes popular.- The idea has been around for ages without catching on.
这个观点已经提出来有年头了，可是一直没被广泛接受。
- The idea has been around for ages without catching on.
英英释义
verb
- become popular
- This fashion caught on in Paris
- understand, usually after some initial difficulty
- She didn't know what her classmates were plotting but finally caught on
双语例句
- How did her dress catch on a nail?
她的衣服怎么钩到钉子上了？ - The catch on this door seems to be broken.
门上的把手好像弄折了。轮唱； - I expect this new way of doing business will take some time to catch on.
我希望这种新的从事工商业的方式将花一些时间普及开来。 - It took me a blue moon to catch on to the directions.
我花了很久才弄明白说明书的意思。 - Some scares catch on: others do not.
有些恐慌传播开了，有些则没有。 - The catch on my handbag is broken.
我的手提包的扣坏了。 - Hang in there! You'll soon catch on to the language.
坚持学习！你很快就会掌握这种语言的。 - This season, the new look is the ski-pant and the question is whether it will catch on.
这一季新出现的是滑雪裤，是否会流行起来，还是个问题。 - The lady repeated her question several times but I still couldn't catch on.
那位女士把她的问题重复了好几遍，但是我还是没听懂。 - I catch on to the job gradually.
渐渐地我明白这工作怎么做了。