put about

英 [pʊt əˈbaʊt]

美 [pʊt əˈbaʊt]

传播; 散布

柯林斯词典

The forms put around and put round are also used in British English. put around 和 put round亦用于英国英语中。


• PHRASAL VERB 传播；散布
  If youputsomethingabout, you tell it to people that you meet and cause it to become well-known.
  1. Moderates are putting it about that people shouldn't take the things said at the Republican Convention too seriously...
     温和派散布说人们不应该把共和党大会上说的话太当真。
  2. The King had been putting about lurid rumours for months.
     国王连续数月都在散布骇人听闻的谣言。

双语例句

• Do not believe all these stories that are being put about.
  不要相信所有这些谣传。
• The ship put about to pick up the girl who had fallen overboard.
  船掉转方向以便把落水的女孩救起来。
• He is much put about by this.
  这使他非常难过。
• He put it about that he would do no such thing.
  他放风说，他不愿做这样的事。
• The death of that good doctor put about everybody.
  那位优秀医生的死使大家很难过。
• For this reason we have underlined them and put information about them in the glossary at the of this book.
  因为这个原因，我们也将它添加下划线，并将它们的信息列在书后的词汇表上。
• The skipper put us about to avoid submarines that had been reported in that area.
  据报道，该区常有潜艇出没，为避免与潜艇相遇，船长让我们改变航向。
• He is much put about by their recent behaviour.
  他们近来的行为使他十分焦虑。
• As soon as they realized that they were going in the wrong direction, they put about and retraced their path.
  他们一发觉正在朝着错误的方向前进，就马上折回原路。
• When we saw the storm clouds gathering we put about and sailed back to our port.
  我们看到阴云密布，便改变方向，驶回港口。