You use get with adjectives to mean 'become'. For example, if someone gets cold , they become cold, and if they get angry , they become angry.

to have obtained

obtained dishonestly or illegally (esp in the phrase ill-gotten gains )

Ill-gotten gains are things that someone has obtained in a dishonest or illegal way.

To get at something means to succeed in reaching it.

If you can get by with what you have, you can manage to live or do things in a satisfactory way.

If a political party or a politician gets in , they are elected.

If someone who has broken a law or rule gets off , they are not punished , or are given only a very small punishment .

If you get on with someone, you like them and have a friendly relationship with them.

If you get out , you leave a place because you want to escape from it, or because you are made to leave it.

When someone who is sitting or lying down gets up , they rise to a standing position.

If you get away , you succeed in leaving a place or a person's company .

If someone or something gets back to a state they were in before, they are then in that state again.

If something gets you down , it makes you unhappy .

If you get into a particular kind of work or activity, you manage to become involved in it.

to board or cause or help to board (a bus , train, etc)

If you get over an unpleasant or unhappy experience or an illness, you recover from it.

If you get about , you go to different places and visit different people.

When an idea gets across or when you get it across , you succeed in making other people understand it.

If you want to get ahead , you want to be successful in your career .

If you get along with someone, you have a friendly relationship with them. You can also say that two people get along .

To get around a problem or difficulty means to overcome it.

to circumvent or overcome

If you get in on something that other people are already involved in, you take part in it.

If you get off on something, you are very excited by it, especially sexually excited.

If you get on to a topic when you are speaking , you start talking about it.

If you get out of doing something that you do not want to do, you succeed in avoiding doing it.

If you get through a task or an amount of work, especially when it is difficult , you complete it.

When people get together , they meet in order to discuss something or to spend time together.

If you say that someone gets up to something, you mean that they do it and you do not approve of it.

When you get around to doing something that you have delayed doing or have been too busy to do, you finally do it.

If you get away with doing something wrong or risky , you do not suffer any punishment or other bad consequences because of it.

If you get back to an activity , you start doing it again after you have stopped doing it.

If you get down to something, especially something that requires a lot of attention , you begin doing it.

If someone tries to get in with you, they try to become friendly with you because they think that they will benefit in some way .

If you get off with someone, you start a romantic or sexual relationship with them.

If you want to get something unpleasant over with , you want to do it or finish experiencing it quickly, since you cannot avoid it.

( attack, criticize ) 不断(斷)指责(責) bùduàn zhǐzé

( manage ) 过(過)得去 guò de qù

( be elected : candidate, party ) 当(當)选(選) dāngxuǎn

( be friends ) 和睦相处(處) hémù xiāngchǔ

( rise : from chair, sofa ) 站起来(來) zhànqǐlái

( leave ) 脱(脫)身 tuōshēn

( return ) 回来(來) huílái

趴下 pāxià

( become part of : conversation, argument, fight ) 进(進)行 jìnxíng ( sphere of activity ) 开(開)始从(從)事 kāishǐ cóngshì ( university, school ) 进(進)入 jìnrù

( from train, bus ) 下车(車) xiàchē

( person : of place ) 离(離)开(開) líkāi

( illness, shock ) 从(從) ... 中恢复(復)过(過)来(來) cóng ... zhōng huīfù guòlái

( person : travel ) 旅行 lǚxíng (: move about ) 各处(處)走动(動) gèchù zǒudòng ▶ I can't get about as much as I used to 我不能再像我过(過)去那样(樣)到处(處)走动(動)了 wǒ bùnéng zài xiàng wǒ guòqù nàyàng dàochù zǒudòng le

( message, meaning, idea ) 使 ... 被理解 shǐ ... bèi lǐjiě

( be friends ) 相处(處) xiāngchǔ

( problem ) 克服 kèfú

( subject, topic ) 开(開)始涉及 kāishǐ shèjí

( Tel ) 接通 jiētōng

( people ) 聚在一起 jù zài yīqǐ

( prank etc ) 搞 gǎo ⇒ What has he been getting up to? → 他在搞什么花样？ Tā zài gǎo shénme huāyàng?

▶ to get back at sb (for sth) (因某事)对(對)某人进(進)行报(報)复(復) (yīn mǒushì) duì mǒurén jìnxíng bàofù

( return to : activity, work ) 回到 huídào ( normality ) 恢复(復) huīfù ( subject ) 重新回到 chóngxīn huídào ▶ to get back to sleep 重又睡着(著) chóng yòu shuìzháo

( work ) 开(開)始认(認)真处(處)理 kāishǐ rènzhēn chǔlǐ

( be friends with : person ) 与(與) ... 和睦相处(處) yǔ ... hémù xiāngchǔ

( vehicle ) 从(從) ... 下来(來) cóng ... xiàlái

▶ to get around to sth/to doing sth 终(終)于(於)有时(時)间(間)做某事 zhōngyú yǒu shíjiān zuò mǒushì

不因 ... 而受惩(懲)罚(罰) bù yīn ... ér shòu chéngfá

与(與) ... 亲(親)热(熱) yǔ ... qīnrè

( Tel ) 接通 jiētōng