get around to

英 [ɡet əˈraʊnd tu]

美 [ɡet əˈraʊnd tu]

抽出时间做; 终于去做

柯林斯词典

in BRIT, also use 英国英语亦用 get round to


• PHRASAL VERB 抽出时间做；终于去做
  When youget around todoing something that you have delayed doing or have been too busy to do, you finally do it.
  1. I said I would write to you, but as usual I never got around to it...
     我说过要给你写信，但一如往常，我总是抽不出时间来。
  2. I've got bags of photographs and one day I'll get round to putting them in an album.
     我有几袋相片，哪天抽空把它们放进相册。

英英释义

verb

• do something despite obstacles such as lack of time
  1. He finally got around to painting the windows

双语例句

• I don't know when I'll get around to seeing it as it's very hard to watch him like that.
  不知道什么时候我会考虑去看一看，因为看到那样的他让我非常难过。
• When are you going to get around to painting the house?
  你什么时候会挤出时间来油漆一下房子？
• B: I was going to, but my boss guessed what I was thinking. He gave me so much work to do that afternoon that I didn't get around to meeting with the supervisor of our department.
  我有这个打算，可是老板已猜出了我的心思。那天下午他给我派了很多活，我根本抽不出时间去见我们部门的主管。
• We will get around to discussing it sometime.
  以后有时间，我们回过头来讨论这篇论文。
• I said I would write to you, but as usual I never got around to it
  我说过要给你写信，但一如往常，我总是抽不出时间来。
• Please bear with me and I will get around to it ASAP.
  请原谅我，我会尽快抽出时间处理这件事。
• Sure, maybe we'll get baptized one of these days, but in the meantime we got to go home and take care of the harvest, so we'll get around to that. Don't worry about it.
  我们这几天也许会去受洗，但现在，得回家秋收了，我们会抽时间做的，别担心。
• They didn't get around to typing up the letter
  他们没能抽出时间把信打印出来。
• I wish Bill would get around to working on it.
  我希望比尔开始着手做那件事。
• But it never seems to get around to noticing the cultural and class biases that so many former buyers are complaining about.
  但对于那么多以前的顾客所抱怨的文化和阶级偏见，他们似乎却视而不见，置若罔闻。