be quick/slow on the uptake

be ˌquick/ˌslow on the ˈuptake(informal)to be quick/slow to understand sth领悟得快╱慢Is he always this slow on the uptake?他总是理解得这么慢吗？

• lie out
• swelteringly
• inflammatory
• strobilus
• linguodental
• turn the balance
• sterilant
• eupnoea
• FGP.
• synthesise
• Retin-A
• NSPCC
• alligatorfishes
• oxazepams
• current decay
• taste-tested
• sieve analysis
• antifoaming
• condommed
• phagocytize
• overlying
• Kyiv
• weight of numbers
• Yahwism
• home reservation
• immunoreactive
• plevens
• substages
• t.y
• someone/thing owes one a living
• enthalpy of hydration
• neutron star
• stable mate
• monolithic integrated circuit
• three score and ten
• octoploidy
• descending aorta
• gas-sipper
• knees-ups
• be in a certain condition
• hankoes
• ice loading
• bilinite
• attestator
• stemples
• polypropylene
• scombrid
• connective tissue
• greater than the sum of
• owly-eyed
• Inverness
• hang in ribbons
• hovering accent
• coup de mains
• worrywarting
• back off (from sth)
• synchronisation
• boogy
• pikerish
• cinefilms
• sclerosing hemangioma
• restricter
• cherry bomb
• bewildered by
• rip-off
• Columbus Air Force Base
• landspout
• dummy load
• -nomics
• large-scale
• surjection
• keep sth quiet / keep quiet about sth
• bottle-greens
• noise limiter
• get someone off her duff
• andirobas
• crinoids
• be no / few / not many takers
• astrons
• monoamine oxidase inhibitors
• intoxication
• ancientness
• Z-axes
• run someone ragged
• Young, Thomas
• symmetrically
• hyperspherical
• pound of flesh
• sensitive plant
• opposing wind
• shallow fording
• bone-mill
• duckfooted
• shag
• red ochre
• crabbed
• algerian stripes
• much at one
• rehabilitations
• abirritants