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
- 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。 - How did her dress catch on a nail?
她的衣服怎么钩到钉子上了？ - Some scares catch on: others do not.
有些恐慌传播开了，有些则没有。 - 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。 - 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。 - He is no fool, he'll catch on soon enough to what you are doing.
他可不是傻瓜，他很快就会看出你这是干什么。 - I don't catch on to jokes you told.
你不懂你的笑话。 - Eddie slipped the safety catch on his automatic back into place.
埃迪将自动步枪的保险栓重新拉上。 - Sorry, I don't catch on your joke.
抱歉，你说的笑话我没听懂。 - It's hardly surprising his ideas didn't catch on
他的想法没有被广泛接受，这并不足为奇。