get something across

基本解释

You’ll seem nervous and fidgeting can be a distracting when you try to get something across.
你会显得紧张而慌乱，当你试图越过或结束某些事情时，这些动作会分散注意力。
Martin Fowler : Before I really came across refactoring, particularly in conjunction with automated testing, I tended to look at design as something I have to get right at the beginning.
Martin Fowler ：在遇到重构之前，特别是在把重构与自动测试（automated testing）结合使用之前，我习惯于把设计看作是在开始阶段必须做好的一件事情。
The tradition gradually became something people could do on their own; these days, just saying "fingers crossed" is enough to get the message, well, across.
这个传统逐渐演变为可以自己完成的姿势；近日，只要说句“手指相交”就能够达到同样的效果，对了，应该是，交叉。

You use "I can't help but" when you feel helpless, when you want to get something across that needs to happen.
当你觉得无助时，或者当你说明需要做到这件事情的时候，你就可以使用“I can't help but”句型。
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I don't want to spend the whole weekend implementing just a little pop up calendar and frankly it probably would take at least that long to get something that's as interactive and dynamic as something like this that works across all browsers and so forth.
我并不想花费整个周末的时间来实现,这样一个小的弹出式日历，而且,可能至少还要花那么多时间，从而使它,能够在所有浏览器上都能有良好的交互性并且是,动态的，等等。
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Is there something the administration is trying to get across to this larger group of interested parties on this issue as a result of what was published about what Rahm said last August?
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Even though clinical guidelines exist for practices like these, McGlynn and her colleagues found something shocking: physicians get it right about 55 percent of the time across all medical conditions.
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