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单词 to work around
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to work around ——
to work around ——
1. intransitive. To find a way to overcome, bypass, or avoid a difficulty or problem, esp. when the usual or most obvious solution is not feasible or possible. Cf. workaround n.
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1907 Central Station 7 837/2 English electrical engineers had been working around the problem of producing a steady arc, but they had found themselves obliged usually to employ one.
1952 Pop. Mech. Sept. 89/2 No tooling has been ordered. It appears impossible even for versatile Ed Cole, new chief engineer, to work around this obstacle in time for '53.
1963 1964 NASA Authorization: Hearings before Subcomm. on Manned Space Flight 333 In fact, we are kind of working around the problem that was created by the structural test failure of the S-II.
1989 Byte Aug. 191/1 SuperMac cleverly used a chunky/planar mode that was defined..by Apple to work around this limit.
2013 N.Y. Times 10 Jan. (Late ed.) a23/2 For the president's tough talk to be credible, Congress and the country need to know..that he has a plausible plan to work around the debt ceiling.
2. intransitive. To adapt one's work or activity to accommodate the physical presence of a person or thing.
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1947 Time 6 Oct. 94/3 The maintenance man often finds her with a male guest, necking at the poolside. Says the imperturbable workman: ‘We just work around 'em’.
1992 N.Y. Times 19 Jan. iv. 6/2 ‘Slash and burn’ contractors who have found it cheaper and easier to raze trees than to work around them.
2010 Scotsman (Nexis) 11 Mar. 40 The boss..is a lovable eccentric, whose staff say they just work around him.
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