| 单词 | understand |
| 释义 | understand (once / 19 pages) v To understand something is to comprehend or get it. The more we learn, the more we understand. The goal of most education is to help students understand how the world works: history, math, English, music, science, and art are all complicated subjects that you need to practice and think about before you can really understand them. Understanding requires knowledge and thought. Another kind of understanding is like sympathy. For example, you might not approve of stealing, but you could understand why a guy would steal to feed his family. WORD FAMILYunderstand: misunderstand, understandable, understanding, understands, understood+/misunderstand: misunderstanding, misunderstands/misunderstanding: misunderstandings/misunderstood: misunderstoodest/understandable: understandability/understanding: understandingly, understandings/understood: misunderstood, understoodest, ununderstood USAGE EXAMPLES“We need to understand what is collected and be transparent. We need some kind of oversight in place before the line gets pushed too far.” Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) Also understand that this is a two-way street. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) To better understand this approach I spoke with the Rev. William Barber II, president of the North Carolina chapter of the NAACP. Washington Post(Jan 01, 2017) 1v know and comprehend the nature or meaning of She did not understand her husband I understand what she means Hypo apprehend, compass, comprehend, dig, get the picture, grasp, grok, savvy understand or perceive the meaning of something sensecomprehend followgrasp the meaning catch, getgrasp with the mind or develop an understanding of touchcomprehend interpret, read, translatemake sense of a language readto hear and understand construe, interpret, seemake sense of; assign a meaning to make outcomprehend figure out, lick, puzzle out, solve, work, work outfind the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning of bottom, fathom, penetratecome to understand figureunderstand catch on, cotton on, get it, get onto, get wise, latch on, tumble, twigunderstand, usually after some initial difficulty intuitknow or grasp by intuition or feeling digestarrange and integrate in the mind be amiss, misapprehend, misconceive, misconstrue, misinterpret, misunderstandinterpret 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 answer, resolveunderstand the meaning of riddleexplain a riddle strikearrive at after reckoning, deliberating, and weighing guess, inferguess correctly; solve by guessing answergive the correct answer or solution to breakfind the solution or key to draw out, educe, elicit, evoke, extractdeduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning) 2v perceive (an idea or situation) mentally I don't understand the idea Syn|Hypo realise, realize, see envision, fancy, figure, image, picture, project, see, visualise, visualize imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind seesee and understand, have a good eye perceive become conscious of appreciate, take accountbe fully aware of; realize fully sense, smell, smell outbecome aware of not through the senses but instinctively 3v be understanding of You don't need to explain--I understand! Syn empathise, empathize, sympathise, sympathize 4v make sense of a language She understands French Syn interpret, read, translate 5v believe to be the case I understand you have no previous experience? Syn|Hyper infer believe accept as true; take to be true |
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