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British informal: to finally realize or understand something, usually after everyone else. 'Cotton on to something', or just 'cotton on'. It smiles a little at the slow person — you can happily use it about yourself: 'it took me ages to cotton on'.
終於搞懂、恍然大悟
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
cotton onverb
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To realize; come to understand.
- “That is what most people in the country have thought about the Tory party for decades. […] Tory MPs largely do not care about these poorer people. They don’t care about the NHS. And the public has kind of cottoned on to that.”
- In the late aughts, a number of entrepreneurs cottoned on to the idea of reducing emissions by producing fake meat that carnivores could love.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。