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

• 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。
• Latch on to some very valuable books.
  搞到几本极有价值的书。
• Reaching down, he unfastened the latch on the gate
  他伸手打开了门闩。
• He's not very clever, so it took him some time to latch on.
  他不是非常聪明，所以要花他一些时间去理解。
• 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。
• No humans are traveling aboard the Dragon, but six astronauts are already at the$ 100-billion space lab to help the capsule latch on, to unload supplies and then restock the capsule with cargo to take back to Earth.
  没有人乘坐龙飞船出行，但造价达1000亿美元的太空实验室中已经有六名宇航员，他们会帮忙接收飞船、卸下供给物，并将要带回地球的东西装进太空船。
• 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。
• If I could only latch on to some of your know how!
  要是我能有一点你的那种诀窍就好了。
• The repairman installed an iron latch on the door.
  修理工在门上安了铁门闩。
• 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。