Understand
[ʌndə'stænd] or ['ʌndɚ'stænd]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) know and comprehend the nature or meaning of; 'She did not understand her husband'; 'I understand what she means'.
(verb.) perceive (an idea or situation) mentally; 'Now I see!'; 'I just can't see your point'; 'Does she realize how important this decision is?'; 'I don't understand the idea'.
(verb.) believe to be the case; 'I understand you have no previous experience?'.
(verb.) make sense of a language; 'She understands French'; 'Can you read Greek?'.
卡梅拉校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To have just and adequate ideas of; to apprehended the meaning or intention of; to have knowledge of; to comprehend; to know; as, to understand a problem in Euclid; to understand a proposition or a declaration; the court understands the advocate or his argument; to understand the sacred oracles; to understand a nod or a wink.
(v. t.) To be apprised, or have information, of; to learn; to be informed of; to hear; as, I understand that Congress has passed the bill.
(v. t.) To recognize or hold as being or signifying; to suppose to mean; to interpret; to explain.
(v. t.) To mean without expressing; to imply tacitly; to take for granted; to assume.
(v. t.) To stand under; to support.
(v. i.) To have the use of the intellectual faculties; to be an intelligent being.
(v. i.) To be informed; to have or receive knowledge.
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同義詞及近義詞：
v. a. [1]. Apprehend, conceive, perceive, know, COMPREHEND, penetrate, discern, see, have knowledge of, see through, make out.[2]. Interpret, take, suppose to mean.[3]. Mean, imply.
v. n. [1]. [Rare.] Be an intelligent being, have understanding.[2]. Learn, hear, be apprised, be informed.
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同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Apprehend, comprehend, know, perceive, discern, conceive, learn, recognize,Interpret, imply
ANT:Misapprehend, miscomprehend, ignore, misinterpret, declare, state, enunciate,express
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解釋/意思:
v.t. to comprehend: to have just ideas of: to know thoroughly: to be informed of: to learn: to suppose to mean: to mean without expressing: to imply.—v.i. to have the use of the intellectual faculties: to be informed: to learn.—adj. Understan′dable.—p.adj. Understan′ded (obs.) understood (with of).—n. Understan′ding the act of comprehending: the faculty or the act of the mind by which it understands or thinks: the power to understand: knowledge: exact comprehension: agreement of minds: harmony.—adj. knowing skilful.—adv. Understan′dingly.—Understands′ in Scotch Version of Psalms used for Understandest.
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例句/造句/用法:
- I am to understand, then, that you hold by the determination expressed in your letter? 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- You don't understand. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Reply: I fancy, though we never met, that you and I are in fact acquainted, and understand each other perfectly. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- Mrs. Bulstrode did not wish to go nearer to the facts than in the phrase make some amends; knowing that her husband must understand her. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Understand this, Mr Maurice—you are the scoundrel! 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- He has been something of a voice crying in the wilderness, but a voice that did not understand its own message. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- He was quite willing to tell me what his plan was, but I did not feel clear enough to understand it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Her feelings were very acute, and too little understood to be properly attended to. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- Putting out my hand I felt several coats hanging from the wall, and I understood that I was in a passage. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- At the old lodgings it was understood that he was summoned to Dover, and, in fact, he was taken down the Dover road and cornered out of it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- A certain great traveller, who understood the Indians and their language, had figured in Mr. Seegrave's report, hadn't he? 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- It seemed it was a very funny joke if you understood it properly. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- But one thing was the stars, when I really understood something about the stars. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- It's understood, then? 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- The understanding of the place of theory in life is a comparatively new one. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- You know, I'm a stranger here, so perhaps I'm not so quick at understanding what you mean as if I'd lived all my life at Milton. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- It, too, demands understanding and direction. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- It's because he has some understanding of a woman, because he is not stupid. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- Why any burglar should take such a thing passes my understanding, for it was only a plaster cast and of no real value whatever. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
- But all power of a high order depends on an understanding of the essential character, or law, of heat, light, sound, gravity, and the like. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Nobody understands thee. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- She will be glad: nobody here understands her: Madame Fairfax is all English. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Of course he understands his own affairs. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Standing as a spokesman of an actual social revolt, he has not lost his vision because he understands its function. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- He neither speaks nor understands any European tongue--and his ornaments and weapons are those of the West Coast savages. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- I must familiarise my style--but she understands it. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- No, sir, we have strong reason to believe that he already understands that he has acted in an indiscreet and hot-headed manner. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
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