Фразовый глагол недели: to get round

Значения:

1) выздороветь, оправиться от болезни, прийти в себя после обморока

Синонимы: to recover, to cure, to heal, to come to one's senses

Пример: When a deep injury is done to us, we never get round until we forgive. (Alan Paton)

2) дойти (до сути дела), приняться (за что-либо), начать, заняться

Синонимы: to grasp, to comprehend; to settle to, to sit down to, to set about, to take up

Пример: Dickens, as you know, never got round to starting his home page. (Terry Pratchett)

3) уговорить, убедить, перехитрить

Синонимы: to talk into, to persuade, to urge, to coax, to cajole, to outwit, to outfox, to outmaneuver

Пример: My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to get round my wife to marry me. (Michael Franti)

4) посетить, нанести визит, навестить

Синоним: to visit, to drop in

Пример: Whenever I played Columbus, Ohio, I got round to my close friend, a medium who had mysterious powers. Her Indian guide was Mohawk. (Ethel Waters)

5) привести в гости

Синонимы: to bring around, to bring over, to fetch over

Пример: I like when guests come over early and get their fiends round, and we chop veggies and talk and play music. (John Stamos)

6) распространяться, становиться известным

Синонимы: to go about, to spread out, to span

Пример: It is just as cowardly to judge an absent person as it is wicked to strike a defenseless one. Only the ignorant and narrow-minded make gossip get round, for they speak of persons instead of things. (Lawrence G. Lovasik)

7) обойти, избежать, преодолеть

Синонимы: to evade, to avoid, to bypass, to overcome

Пример: Satellite broadcasting makes it possible for information-hungry residents of many closed societies to get round state-controlled television channels. (Rupert Murdoch)

Проверьте себя: Google, Microsoft and Yahoo should be developing new technologies to get round

1. cyber bullying.
2. breakthroughs in data storage technologies.
3. government sensors and barriers to the Internet.

Правильный ответ на нашу предыдущую «проверку» – вариант A.