| 词汇 | connect-the-dots |
| 释义 | connect the dotsidiom(also mainly UKjoin the dots) to understand the relationships between different facts or events so that you fully understand a situation: All the information is there in the article — you just need to connect the dots. I regret that we didn't connect the dots quickly enough on terrorism. It is a compliment to an audience to leave some things to their imagination and trust them to connect the dots. If I was able to join the dots and discover your true identity then I am sure that, in time, others will too. There was a basic failure to just join the dots and realize what was really going on. Understanding and comprehending appreciation for something apprehend apprehensible apprehension astutely bear dot handle keep someone up know a hawk from a handsawidiom know the scoreidiom know/see where someone is coming fromidiom latch speak to get a handle on somethingidiom to have a handle on somethingidiom tumble to something tune in uncomprehending understanding connect-the-dots | Business Englishconnect-the-dots adjective[ before noun ] informalukus bringing together information from different places: My involvement in this project is as the connect-the-dots guy. Examples of connect the dotsconnect the dots A simple graph that shows a connect-the-dots web of related resources and ideas is one way. From The Atlantic But this is no forced game of connect-the-dots, where topical subject matter must be tackled in a comprehensive breakdown of how doomed we all are. From Los Angeles Times There are variations on the drawing theme, with connect-the-dots games and coloring-in pages. From Wired The result is a tedious game of psychological connect-the-dots, as the young singer-songwriter's artistic fire and drive are shown to be a direct consequence of his troubled past. From The New York Review of Books These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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