phrasal verbphr vwhat somebody is driving atSAY the thing someone is really trying to say 某人说话的真正意图SYN get at
I still couldn’t understand what Toby was driving at.
我还是没弄懂托比到底想说什么。
Examples from the Corpus
drive at • He was driving at a steady thirty-five.• Alarmed, and thinking that my President needed me, I dashed to get there, driving atfoolhardyspeed.• I don't know why I never drove at home.• When driving at night, sit in the car for a minute or two before starting off.• I knew what she was driving at: now we both had a deadparent, and both were suicides.• When driving at speed, the engineersnoted that headwinds and crosswinds caused the blades to lift off the windscreen.• He let go the clutch, lifted the frontwheel and drove at the far bank, sand-spit dead ahead.• Ordering a staff car, he drove attop speed through the night to Paris.
what somebody is driving at• She didn't mention "sexualharassment, " but I knew what she was driving at.• Many candidates don't recognizewhat the question is driving at.