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单词 to get one's head around
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to get one's head around
a. colloquial (originally and chiefly British). to get one's head around and variants: to master or fully comprehend (a subject or fact), esp. despite initial difficulty or reluctance; (also) to come to terms with (a situation). Cf. to get to grips with at grip n.1 2a.
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1922 Gem 15 July 18 Wait a minute, my boy. Let me get my head round it.
1947 S. Lewis Kingsblood Royal xxxiii. 205 You've simply got to keep all this dark till I can think it over and get my head around it.
1981 Aviation Week & Space Technol. (Nexis) 23 Feb. 59 Seitz predicted this work would be controversial, but said it is inevitable ‘because we're not building things that any one person can get his head around any more’.
1998 Independent 3 Aug. i. 4/2 Mr Forbes has had longer than most to get his head around the idea that the state-of-the-art plant is going to close. He was informed last Monday.
2012 ‘Gentle Author’ Spitalfields Life 259/2 So many have pegged out. I can't get my head round it. I suppose I'm next for the chop.
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