| 单词 | construe |
| 释义 | construe (once / 1245 pages) v If you interpret something or make sense of it, you construe its meaning. If the new girl in your class asks to sit with you at lunch, you could construe that she wants to be friends. You can never have too many friends! To make an assumption based on evidence is to construe. You could construe that eating an entire box of cookies might make you feel a bit sick. And you might not want to eat them again for a very long time. The opposite of construe is misconstrue, which means to falsely or wrongly interpret. If you get a poor grade on an essay, you shouldn't construe that your teacher dislikes you. If you do, you misconstrue your work for his feelings. WORD FAMILYconstrue: construal, construed, construes, construing, misconstrue+/misconstrual: misconstruals/misconstruction: misconstructions/misconstrue: misconstrual, misconstruction, misconstrued, misconstrues, misconstruing USAGE EXAMPLESThe remainder is primarily dedicated to scientific research and development, however broadly construed. Wall Street Journal(Dec 15, 2016) “There’s room for them to minimize the impact of the law and construe it narrowly,” she told me. Slate(Dec 13, 2016) Neither study could plausibly be construed to indicate that millions of illegal voters cast ballots in this election. New York Times(Nov 28, 2016) v make sense of; assign a meaning to Syn|Hypo|Hyper interpret, see consider, reckon, regard, see, view deem to be be amiss, misapprehend, misconceive, misconstrue, misinterpret, misunderstand interpret in the wrong way read between the linesread what is implied but not expressed on the surface mythicise, mythicizeinterpret as a myth or in terms of mythology literalise, literalizemake literal spiritualise, spiritualizegive a spiritual meaning to; read in a spiritual sense reinterpretassign a new or different meaning to allegorise, allegorizeinterpret as an allegory read, takeinterpret something in a certain way; convey a particular meaning or impression readinterpret something that is written or printed read, scanobtain data from magnetic tapes draw out, educe, elicit, evoke, extractdeduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning) misinterpret, misreadinterpret wrongly anagram, anagrammatise, anagrammatizeread letters out of order to discover a hidden meaning rereadread anew; read again dip intoread selectively; read only certain passages from a text decipher, traceread with difficulty misreadread or interpret wrongly skim, skim overread superficially lip-read, lipread, speech-readinterpret by lipreading; of deaf people understand know and comprehend the nature or meaning of |
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