cotton on to

i finally began to cotton on to the hidden meaning of her words.

我终于开始领悟到她话里的隐含意思。

What are the principle features of askesis?

自我修行主要的特色是什麽？

The first one is an askesis, a spiritual exercise, and the other is a disease.

第一种就是自律，这是一种精神的修炼，另外一种则是一个灾难。

It took him a while to cotton on to what I was saying.

他过了好一会儿才明白我在说什么。

i don't cotton on to what you are saying.

我不明白你在说什么。

It took me a while to cotton on to what was happening.

过了一会我才明白发生了什么事。

the strategy worked-even better than mr jassy had expected-and it took amazon's competitors years to cotton on to the potential of cloud computing services.

这一策略起到的作用甚至超出了雅西的预期，而亚马逊的竞争对手们数年后才意识到云计算服务的潜力。

It took me ages to cotton on to the fact he was lying.

很多年后我才知道他在撒谎。

he didn't seem to cotton on to me then.

当时他似乎并不喜欢我。

by recent standards, this is fast work. nokia had been slow to cotton on to the popularity of touch screens.

照现今业界的标准，之前对触摸操控流行趋势的反应迟钝，但这次的行动确实迅速。

Now I want to consider the third Stoic technique, askesis, not a disclosure of the secret self but a remembering.

现在我要谈到禁欲学派的第三个技巧，自我修行，但不是洩露秘密的自我，而是记忆。