get about

英 [ɡet əˈbaʊt]

美 [ɡet əˈbaʊt]

四处走动; 各处拜访; 出行; 走动; （消息）传开

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 四处走动；各处旅行
  If youget about, you go to different places and visit different people.
  1. So you're getting about a bit again? Not shutting yourself away?
     这么说你现在又开始四处走动了？不把自己关在家里了？
• PHRASAL VERB 出行；走动
  The way that someonegets aboutis the way that they walk or go from one place to another.
  1. She was finding it increasingly difficult to get about.
     她发现出去走动越来越困难了。
• PHRASAL VERB （消息等）传开，散播开
  If newsgets about, it becomes well known as a result of being told to lots of people.
  1. How did the rumours get about?...
     这些谣言是怎么传开的？
  2. The story had soon got about that he had been suspended.
     他被停职的消息迅速传开了。

英英释义

verb

• move around
  1. How does she get around without a car?
  Synonym:get around

双语例句

• By eliminating commuting and getting ready for work, you could likely get about three hours back.
  通过把通勤和上班准备去掉，你就可能挽回3个小时。
• Those who consider their spouse or partner to be their best friend get about twice as much life satisfaction from marriage as others, the study found.
  研究发现，视配偶或伴侣为至交的人，从婚姻中获得的生活满足感大约是其他人的两倍。
• If you get simple beauty and nothing else, you get about the things God invents. ( UK) Robert Browning.
  只要你拥有纯真的美，你就拥有了上帝创造的最好的东西。（英国）罗伯特。布朗宁。
• The car owner is no longer forced to rely on public transport to get about.
  出行时可以不必再依赖公共交通。
• J ( John): It's okay, I suppose. We get about the equivalent of six months 'salary.
  （约翰）我想还可以。大约相当于六个月的月薪。
• We routinely get about ten pieces of junk mail each day.
  我们每天固定收到约十封垃圾邮件。
• Phillips had earlier expected to get about$ 30 million for 'Four Marilyns,' one of a series of Warhol depictions of the actress.
  菲利普斯之前预计这幅名为《四个玛丽莲》（FourMarilyns）的画作大概能以3000万美元的价格拍出。这是沃霍尔给这位女演员画的一系列肖像之一。
• The boy devoured the books he could get about the author in the kitchen.
  这个小伙子在厨房里如饥似渴地读着他能弄到的关于这个作者的一切书。
• Each year, people in the U.S. get about one billion colds, and 22 million school days are lost to the stubborn viruses.
  美国每年约有10亿人次得感冒，学生们因顽固的感冒病毒共停课2200万天。
• The ThinkPad X1 Carbon got just four hours, one minute in this test, which means that in more normal use, you'd likely get about five hours. That is well below the company's claim of 6.3 hours.
  在这次测试中，ThinkPadx1Carbon的电池续航时间只有四小时一分钟，这表示在正常使用情况下，它的续航时间可能有五个小时，这远远低于联想声称的6.3个小时。