cotton on

英 [ˈkɒtn ɒn]

美 [ˈkɑːtn ɑːn]

明白; 领悟; 意识到

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 明白;领悟;意识到
  If youcotton on tosomething, you understand it or realize it, especially without people telling you about it.
  1. She had already cottoned on to the fact that the nanny was not all she appeared...
     她已经意识到这个保姆不只是她看起来的那样。
  2. It wasn't until he started laughing that they cottoned on!
     他开始笑起来，他们才明白是怎么回事。

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 ontotumblelatch ontwigget it

双语例句

• It took him a while to cotton on to what I was saying.
  他过了好一会儿才明白我在说什么。
• The cotton grows on the plant as long hairs attached to the seeds inside the boll.
  棉花在植株上作为附着在种籽上的长茸毛在棉铃里生长发育。
• This paper focused on the effects of transgenic crops and their residues, particularly the insect-resistant transgenic cotton, on various organisms in the rhizosphere in the soil.
  本文综述了近年来转基因作物对土壤微生物群落影响的研究进展，并且着重介绍了转基因抗虫棉对根际微生物多样性影响的研究进展。
• A preliminary study on the effects of removing the source from leaf at different stages of cotton on the source/ sink
  棉花不同时期去叶源对库源关系影响的初步研究
• There is bout later, it carried cotton on the back, think to fall again, OK and Alexandrine second same, when going to the side of the river then, fall intentionally in water.
  后来有一回，它背了棉花，以为再跌倒，可以同上次一样，于是走到河边的时候，便故意跌倒在水里。
• Effects of Transgenic Cotton Planting on Four Kinds of Soil Enzyme Activity
  种植转基因棉对4种土壤酶活性的影响
• Effect of Decomposed Liquids of Cotton Stalk on Cotton Seeds Germination and Seedling Growth
  棉秆腐解液对棉花种子萌发及幼苗生长的影响
• This district grew cotton on a large scale.
  这个地区过去大量种棉花。
• Insect infestations in certain cotton-growing regions of the world have caused dramatic increase in the price of cotton on the world market.
  害虫在世界范围内的棉花种植区肆虐导致了棉花价格的飞涨。
• Eventually workers will cotton on, demanding still higher wages to offset the rising cost of living.
  总有一天工人们会恍然大悟，并且会索取更高的工资来弥补日益增长的生活费用。