British EnglishBrE informalREALIZE to suddenly realize something about a situation 突然明白,突然懂得
It took ages before he twigged.
过了好长时间他才突然明白过来。
Examples from the Corpus
twig• Oh, I get it, I've twigged at last. How much do you want?• It was amazing that Graham hadn't twigged before he married her.• People don't twig she's ten.• At last I twigged that I was pregnant• It took him about two minutes to twig what I was going on about!• I never twigged what the goldrush was.
ADJECTIVE | VERB + TWIG | TWIG + VERBADJECTIVE➤dry乾燥細枝▸➤bare光禿禿的細枝▸➤dead枯枝➤broken折斷的細枝◇She ran, treading on broken twigs and stumbling over roots.她跑了起來,腳下踩着折斷了的細樹枝,不時被樹根絆一下。➤birch, willow, etc.樺樹枝、柳樹枝等VERB + TWIG➤break, break off, snap, snap off折斷細枝◇She broke a twig from a nearby tree and began poking it into the soft ground.她從附近一棵樹上折下了一根細樹枝,開始戳進軟軟的地面。◇He broke off a twig from a willow tree and used it to shoo the flies away.他折下了一根柳樹枝來驅趕蒼蠅。TWIG + VERB➤break, snap細枝折斷/啪地折斷◇A twig snapped under her feet.一根細樹枝在她腳下咔嚓一聲斷了。◇The sharp sound of a twig snapping scared the badger away.細枝突然折斷的刺耳聲音把貛驚跑了。