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单词 go about
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go about

1. phrasal verb
The way you go about a task or problem is the way you approach it and deal with it.
I want him back, but I just don't know how to go about it. [VERB PARTICLE noun/verb-ing]
2. phrasal verb
When you are going about your normal activities, you are doing them.
We were simply going about our business when we were pounced upon by these policeofficers. [VERB PARTICLE noun]
3. phrasal verb
If you go about in a particular way, you behave or dress in that way, often as part of your normal life.
He used to go about in a black cape. [VERB PARTICLE preposition]
He went about looking ill and unhappy. [VERB PARTICLE verb-ing]
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go about in British English

verb (intransitive)
1. (adverb)
to move from place to place
2. (preposition)
to busy oneself with
to go about one's duties
3. (preposition)
to tackle (a problem or task)
4. (preposition)
to be actively and constantly engaged in (doing something)
he went about doing good
5. 
to circulate (in)
there's a lot of flu going about
6. (adverb)
(of a sailing ship) to change from one tack to another

go about in American English

1. 
to be occupied with; be busy at; do
2. 
to move from place to place; circulate
3. 
come about (sense 3) (at , come)
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Examples of 'go about' in a sentence
go about

Our economy depends on it and people must be aided to go about their business.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The way we went about things was fine.
The Sun (2016)
It hints at an unpleasant disdain for how people go about their business.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
It was a strange way of going about telling the world.
The Sun (2016)
He just goes about his business and he is very focused.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
He will understand the way the club goes about staying up better than most.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
He is not the most spectacular player but he goes about his business well.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
But the way you go about getting it is more about your moral compass than your work ethic.
The Sun (2016)
The question is: how exactly should he go about this change?
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The trouble is that the many who go about quietly being good parents pass unnoticed.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
You cannot just go about wounding people in this way.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
How would you go about winning back the fans?
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Yet how does one go about building these reserves?
Christianity Today (2000)
The two men often talk about politics as they go about their business.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
What is the best way to go about asking for a pay rise?
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
How does he go about approaching a family?
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
We just go about our daily life.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The problem is no one wants to go about it directly.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
The sounds it makes while going about its business range from mellifluous to menacing.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
This is his way of going about things.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
They felt free now to just go about their lives.
Martin, April The Guide to Lesbian and Gay Parenting (1993)
Watching another creature go about its life somehow gave me purpose, too.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
As if we'd let our lot go about with lice.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
Or you don't know how to go about solving issues and asking for what you need.
The Sun (2014)
But at the back, we go about our business quietly.
The Sun (2014)
You think you look good as you go about your life and they will edit it and make you look like a fool.
The Sun (2014)
Some investors said that any sympathy they have for his view has been overshadowed by the way he has gone about dealing with the issue.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
If you go about making those changes properly, the disruption and time it takes willbe well worth it.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
It may pay off, but the shoddy manner with which they went about the change will leave many hoping that it does not.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
They don't go about buying up places and then telling the local people that you are not allowed to go into the forest where your grandfather hunted.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)

Chinese translation of 'go about'

go about

vt fus

  1. (= tackle) 处(處)理 (chǔlǐ)
    how do I go about doing this? 我该(該)怎样(樣)着(著)手做这(這)事呢？ (wǒ gāi zěnyàng zhuóshǒu zuò zhè shì ne?)

vi

  1. [rumour] 传(傳)开(開) (chuánkāi)
    there's a rumour going about that ... 一条(條)关(關)于(於) ... 的谣(謠)言正流传(傳)开(開)来(來) (yī tiáo guānyú ... de yáoyán zhèng liúchuán kāilái)
  2. (manner)
    he goes about in a white suit 他总(總)是穿着(著)白西装(裝) (tā zǒngshì chuānzhe bái xīzhuāng)
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All related terms of 'go about'

go on about
对(對) ... 唠(嘮)唠(嘮)叨叨 duì ... láolao-dāodao
how do I go about doing this?
我该(該)怎样(樣)着(著)手做这(這)事呢？ wǒ gāi zěnyàng zhuóshǒu zuò zhè shì ne?
go without
( food, treats ) 没(沒)有 méiyǒu ...
go with
( combine well with : colours, clothes, foods ) 与(與) ... 协(協)调(調) yǔ ... xiétiáo
go up to
向 ... 走过(過)去 xiàng ... zǒuguòqù
go up
( rise : price, level, value ) 上涨(漲) shàngzhǎng
go under
( sink : ship, person ) 沉没(沒) chénmò
go towards
( money ) 作为(為) ... 的部分付款 zuòwéi ... de bùfen fùkuǎn
go together
( colours, clothes, foods ) 相配 xiāngpèi
go through with
( plan, crime ) 做到 zuòdào
go through
( place, town ) 路过(過) lùguò
go round
= go around
go over
过(過)去 guòqù
go out
( person ) 离(離)开(開) líkāi ( to party, club ) 出去消遣 chūqù xiāoqiǎn ▶ to go out of 离(離)开(開) líkāi ▶ are you going out tonight? 你今晚出去吗(嗎)？ nǐ jīnwǎn chūqù ma?
go on at
( nag ) 向 ... 唠(嘮)唠(嘮)叨叨 xiàng ... láolao-dāodao
go on
( continue ) 继(繼)续(續) jìxù
go off with
( run away with : lover ) 同 ... 私奔 tóng ... sībēn
go off
( esp Brit : begin to dislike : person, place, idea etc ) 不再喜欢(歡) bù zài xǐhuan
go into
( enter : building, room ) 进(進)入 jìnrù
go in for
( competition ) 参(參)加 cānjiā
go in
( enter ) 进(進)去 jìnqù
go for
( fetch ) 去取 qù qǔ
go down
( fall : price, level, amount ) 下降 xiàjiàng
go by
( vehicle, years, time ) 过(過)去 guòqù
go back to
( activity, work, school ) 回到 huídào
go back on
( promise, agreement ) 背弃(棄) bèiqì
go back
( return ) 返回 fǎnhuí
go away
( leave ) 离(離)开(開) líkāi
go around
( circulate : news, rumour ) 传(傳)播 chuánbō
go along with
( agree with : plan, idea, decision ) 赞(贊)同 zàntóng
go along
去 qù
go ahead
( take place : event ) 发(發)生 fāshēng
go against
( be unfavourable to ) 不利于(於) bù lìyú
go after
( pursue : person ) 追赶(趕) zhuīgǎn
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