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单词 thesaurus/articles/to-be-about-something
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Thesaurus article:to be about something

to be about something

You can say that a book, film, etc. isaboutsomething.

What is the story about?

You can say that something is, has, or has gotto do withsomething else.

What's that got to do with it?
The condition has to do with genetics.
A lot of it is to do with attitude.

If somethingrelates tosomething else, that means that it is connected to that other thing in some way.

That relates to what I was saying earlier about the need for reform.

Concernis a formal way of saying that something is about something else.

The film concerns the complicated nature of marriage.

Cover,deal with, andtreatare normally used in connection with presenting facts.Treatis more common in the passive with this meaning.

We will cover the passive voice later in the course.
We will deal with the use of antidepressants in chapter three.
There is too much variety in how the election results are treated by different newspapers.

If a piece of writingrefers tosomething, it mentions it but does not necessarily give much detail about it.

I briefly referred to this study in my introduction.

If a piece of writingdiscussessomething, it goes into detail about it and analyses it from different points of view.

The final chapter will discuss the relevance of these findings for clinical practice.

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