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单词 to bone up on
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to bone up on
4. intransitive. slang (originally U.S.). To apply oneself assiduously or determinedly to a task, esp. studying (frequently with down, away, etc.). Later also (chiefly in to bone up on): to study intensively or read up on a topic, typically in preparation for a test.
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society > education > learning > study > [verb (intransitive)] > study diligently or hard
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muzz?1744
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society > education > learning > study > [verb (transitive)] > study diligently or hard
to make a study ofa1591
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to sit over ——1606
to mouse over1808
to work out1830
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to work up1852
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1832 H. L. Ellsworth Let. 17 Nov. in Washington Irving on Prairie (1937) 74 He was a poor scholar..with no disposition to bone down to study.
1841 H. Greeley in W. M. Griswold Passages Corr. R. W. Griswold (1898) 53 Webb..has been round boring every big-bug in the State to bone for him.
a1861 T. Winthrop Life in Open Air (1863) 148 We was about sick of putty-heads and sneaks that..didn't dare to make us stand round and bone in.
1887 E. Custer Tenting on Plains (1889) ix. 286 I have known the General to ‘bone-up’, as his West Point phrase expressed it, on the smallest details of some question at issue.
1899 Michiganensian 3 That evening I had some hard work to do and was bohning away like sin.
1924 M. Currie Margaret Currie her Bk. 72 That old stick-in-the-mud, Smith, who spends every evening boning away at dry old books.
1949 Berkeley (Calif.) Daily Gaz. 9 Nov. 16/6 Boning hard for their ‘grudge’ game against California Saturday at Berkeley, the Oregon Ducks went through a rough scrimmage here yesterday.
1959 Punch 14 Oct. 309/1 The Wrens..boned up on Russian to be ahead for the next war.
1993 J. Dickey To White Sea 124 This was not one of those times, though, and I boned down on what choices I had and what advantages I could give myself.
2009 D. O'Briain Tickling Eng. iii. 22 Coventry was..one of the great car-producing areas, so I should have boned up on my manufacturing-process terminology before gigging there.
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