单词 | to get something right |
释义 | > as lemmasto put (also get, etc.) something right to put (also get, etc.) something right: to restore something to its proper condition or to good working order. to make it right: to square or settle matters with someone.extracted from rightadj.int.to get (also have) something right P6. to get (also have) something right: to deal with (a matter) or perform (a task) accurately or correctly; to answer (a question) correctly.In quot. 1836 with get used intransitively. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > freedom from error, correctness > be right [verb (intransitive)] to reckon righta1400 to read right?a1425 to get, have, or take the (or a) wrong (or right) sow by the ear1546 to get (also have) something right1565 to have the right scope of1570 1565 King Daryus sig. Divv I misse a note I dare well say I shuld haue byn low when I was so hie I shall haue it ryght anone verely. a1627 T. Middleton Chast Mayd in Cheape-side (1630) iii. 39 Why there thou hast it right. 1672 Duke of Buckingham Rehearsal ii. 17 You have it right: they are both Politicians. 1709 R. Gould Wks. I. 339 You have it right, it is truly so! 1762 W. Whitehead School for Lovers i. 3 I cannot get this right. 1836 H. Taylor Statesman xxi. 142 He whose mind is not seasonably inconclusive, and cannot bear with a reasonable term of suspense, will either get wrong, or get right more tardily by means of after-thought and correction. 1893 G. D. Leslie Lett. to Marco xx. 134 My picture is at present in a state of jib, owing to a child's head in it which I cannot get right. 1895 G. B. Shaw Let. 1 Mar. (1965) I. 491 I should muddle at it until I got it right. 1914 E. P. Stewart Lett. Woman Homesteader xxii. 223 I have your address on the back of the writing-pad, so she knew she had it right, but I suspect that was all she had right. 1933 Punch 16 Aug. 195 (caption) Tourist (after two miles of it). ‘Look here, Alfonso, let's get this right. Have you adopted us or have we adopted you?’ 1951 C. P. Snow Masters iii. xxxvii. 301 I expect Eliot has got everything he said right. 2005 J. Martyn Ringfort to Runway ii. Foreword 89 The skies overhead would drone to four-cylinder Rallisons if the East European aircraft manufacturer got it right and import-certification complied with the law. < as lemmas |
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