latch on

英 [lætʃ ɒn]

美 [lætʃ ɑːn]

缠住（或抓住）…不放; 对…产生浓厚兴趣; 依附（于）; 附着（于）

英英释义

verb

• understand, usually after some initial difficulty
  1. She didn't know what her classmates were plotting but finally caught on
  Synonym:catch onget wiseget ontotumblecotton ontwigget it
• adopt
  1. take up new ideas
  Synonym:take upfasten onhook onseize on
• take hold of or attach to
  1. The biochip latches onto the genes

双语例句

• Japanese retail investors tend to latch on to investment themes.
  日本散户投资者往往对投资题材十分关注。
• Reaching down, he unfastened the latch on the gate
  他伸手打开了门闩。
• The markets have failed to zero in on this problem, he writes, because of all the other squeaky wheels in the global economy& but sooner or later, latch on they will.
  吴写到，由于全球经济中其他吱吱作响的齿轮，市场未能集中关注这个问题&但迟早，他们会意识到这一点。
• He always latch on to me when he see me at a party.
  他在聚会上一看见我就总是缠著我。
• As Mr. Mannion says, most such A-list dinosaurs were discovered in North America in the late 19th century or early 20th century and had some of the earliest quality mounted specimens, which quickly gave them a latch on the public imagination.
  正如曼尼恩所说，大部分这类重要恐龙都是19世纪末20世纪初在北美发现的，并被做成第一批优质标本架标本，很快俘获公众的想象。
• Inevitably, given the scale of the task, Prof Kay does not have a single eye-catching prescription to latch on to.
  不可避免的是，由于讨论的命题过于宏大，凯未能给出一个抓人眼球的解决方案。
• The repairman installed an iron latch on the door.
  修理工在门上安了铁门闩。
• But others say the ultimate sell signal is when the media latch on to a story.
  但其他人认为最终的抛售信号是当媒体开始将其编入专题的时候。
• The infant finds it difficult to latch on to the nipple, and the baby can be smothered.
  婴儿难以吸住乳头，而且他们可能会窒息。
• It took me ages to latch on to what she was talking about.
  我花了很长时间才明白她在说什么。