turn to sb./sth.简单

turn to independent agencies.

求助于独立机构

(48) But the professional companies prospered in their permanent theaters, and university men with literary ambitions were quick to turn to these theaters as offering a means of livelihood.

(48) 但职业剧团在其固定的剧院里兴旺发达，怀有文学抱负的大学毕业生很快就转向这些剧院，把它们当作谋生之道。

To [test] this idea, he turned to the university-admissions process.

为了检验这一想法，他把目光转向了大学招生过程。