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.