| 释义 |
suss out; suss; suss on
verb
to work out, discover, find, ascertain or understand something UK
Extended from various senses of SUSSUSS[N]o-one really knew how we made our loot–they just sussed it was all bent. — Derek Raymond (Robin Cook), The Crust on its Uppers, p. 152, 1962 Youth susses things out on its own — The Queen, 28 September 1966 [G]as and Water Board vans with the original signs still on their side. He sussed each could be switched to supercharged vehicles within hours by a bent mechanic. — The Sweeney, p. 50, 1976 Look, Arthur–all I’m doing is sussing out the job market. — Anthony Masters, Minder, p. 8, 1984 He has already been identified, in passing, as the poet’s “translator,” but his English, from what I’ve been able to suss out thus far, is fairly awful. — Jim Carroll, Forced Entries, p. 69, 1987 If you’re cornered suss a wangle — Ian Dury, Cacka Boom, 1998 I’d already sussed that all the mother and baby books took it for granted that you, the mum, had a husband[.] — Mary Hooper, (megan)2, p. 113, 1999 [A]bout 50 cons have sussed on and nipped behind the huts[.] — Jimmy Stockin, On The Cobbles, p. 135, 2000 |