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

• 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。
• The invalid is able to get about now.
  病人能走动了。
• 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。
• I don't think there's any reason to get excited about inflation
  我认为大可不必为通货膨胀而心烦。
• It's nothing to get excited about.
  这没有什么值得兴奋的。
• 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。
• How do you get about with a baby on your back?
  你如何背着小孩到处走呢？
• Here's another reason to get serious about saving& it's a new year.
  又有一个原因让你认真地考虑储蓄问题了，那就是新的一年开始了。
• Nowadays people get about much more than they used to.
  现在人们外出旅行比过去多得多了。
• 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。