understand

英[ˌʌndəˈstænd]美[ˌʌndərˈstænd]

v.明白，理解，了解，得知，默认，领会，懂（某种语言）；

第三人称单数：understands;

过去式：understood;

过去分词：understood;

现在分词：understanding;

例句

I don't understand that girl's behavior. What's she aiming at?我不明白那个女孩为什么那样干, 她的目的是什么?

He seized on my mistake and said I didn't understand.他抓住了我的错误就硬说我不懂。

He didn't quite understand why the deal fell through.他不十分明白为什么这场交易失败了。

He was beginning to understand the seriousness of life.他渐渐地懂得了生活的严肃性。

He doesn’t understand me, or at any rate not fully.他并不了解我，至少是了解得不全面。

I can't understand this case; the facts just don't add up.我不理解这一案例, 这些事实不能说明问题。

I don’t understand scientific terminology.我不懂科学术语。

I can't understand it; he's usually very prompt.我不明白这是怎么回事, 他通常很准时的。

He pitched his speech so that even the children could understand.他带着一种特殊的表情讲话, 以便孩子们能听懂。

You must understand the necessity of education.你必须懂得教育的必要性。

英语六级真题

They got a better understanding of early human civilization.

Most Grand Tourists, however, stayed for briefer periods and set out with less scholarly intentions, accompanied by a teacher or guardian, and expected to return home with souvenirs of their travels as well as an understanding of art and architecture formed by exposure to great masterpieces.

By making the effort to organize and label files so others can understand them, scientists become more organized and better disciplined themselves, thus avoiding confusion later on.

You need to understand as a citizen and as a tax payer and as a voter what’s really behind the arguments.

You are here to understand thinking better and to think better yourself.

Poverty has been understood in many different ways.

Most feel that their parents understand them, and they believe their family is the No.

Any doctor who has wrestled with multiple forms from different insurers, or patients who have tried to understand their own parade of statements, know that simplification ought to save money.

What you must understand is that those supplements, especially in some eastern cultures, are part of a medical practice tradition.

In fact, they are prescribed and they’regiven at a certain level, a dosage that is understood by a practitioner who’s been trained.

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While we argue phasing out racial terminology ( ' , 术语 ) in the biological sciences, we also acknowledge that using race as a political or social category to study racism, although filled with lots of challenges, remains necessary given our need to understand how structural inequities and discrimination produce health disparities ( ' , 差异 ) between groups, Yudell said.

We have to understand and think about the implications, and balance these great innovations with the potential downsides they naturally carry with them.

Michael Yudell, a professor of public health at Drexel University in Philadelphia, said that modern genetics research is operating in a paradox: on the one hand, race is understood to be a useful tool to illuminate human genetic diversity, but on the other hand, race is also understood to be a poorly defined marker of that diversity.

E.B.Du Bois was concerned that race was being used as a biological explanation for what he understood to be social and cultural differences between different populations of people.

When you hear people speaking of making a rapid transition toward any type of energy, whether it is a switch from coal to nuclear power, or a switch from gasoline-powered cars to electric cars, or even a switch from an incandescent to a fluorescent light, understanding energy system inertia and momentum can help you decide whether their plans are feasible.

We need to understand what motivates people, what it is that allows them to make change, says Professor Neil Adger, of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research in Norwich.

To find effective solutions to climate change, it is necessary to understand what motivates people to make change.

Now, she attributes much of her understanding of college to that: But once I got to campus, it was a completely different ball game that no one really prepared me for.

In physics, moving objects have two characteristics relevant to understanding the dynamics of energy systems: inertia and momentum.

If we can help to direct students to more of these types of campuses and help students to understand them to be realistic and accessible places, have them apply to these schools at greater frequency and ultimately get in and enroll, we are going to raise the success rate, Rubinoff said, citing a variety of colleges ranging from large state institutions to smaller private schools.

For this to happen, he suggests the multi-cultural managers exhibit understanding of their own and others’cultural influences and limitations.

"If we can help to direct students to more of these types of campuses and help students to understand them to be realistic and accessible places, have them apply to these schools at greater frequency and ultimately get in and enroll, we are going to raise

"The dangerous thing about lying is people don't understand how the act changes us," says Dan Ariely, behavioural psychologist at Duke University.

"We as a society need to understand that, when we don't punish lying, we increase the probability it will happen again," Ariely says.

"We need to understand what motivates people, what it is that allows them to make change," says Professor Neil Adger, of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research in Norwich.

And scientists are only just beginning to understand what those constraints are.

As I said, we need to understand the best ways of avoiding climate change and this will involve a huge transition to low-carbon energy systems and the transition is a tremendous priority.

At other times, we personify products in an effort to understand them.

But even without gadgets that understand our spoken commands, research suggests that, as bizarre as it sounds, under certain circumstances, people regularly ascribe human traits to everyday objects.

Demography gives you the tools to understand and to address these problems.

For example, let's say you love pizza affective component; however, you have high cholesterol and understand knowledge component that eating may be bad for your health.

From a political perspective, we need to understand the terms on which major countries like China and the USA might sign up to a global agreement because at the moment we don't have that consensus.

I wanted to know why so I began self-monitoring to try to understand my behavior.

If we can help to direct students to more of these types of campuses and help students to understand them to be realistic and accessible places, have them apply to these schools at greater frequency and ultimately get in and enroll, we are going to raise

If we want to fix the problem of the income gap, first we have to understand it.

It will also be necessary to understand what sort of yield farmers might expect and to establish the plant's safety.

So it was pretty certain that the enemy would not be able to understand the code talkers.

The best seek to alleviate the external pressures on their pupils while equipping them better to understand and handle the world outside一 at once sheltering them and broadening their horizons.

The public must be able to understand the basics of science to make informed decisions.

They help us take in more information, hold several ideas in mind at once and understand how different ideas relate to each other.

Today I'm debt-free, resourceful—and I understand that even the shiniest packaging can't predict what you'll find on the inside.

Too many people in this country, including some among our elected leadership, still do not understand how science works or why robust, long-range investments in research vitally matter.

Twenge and her colleagues wanted to understand why this change in average well-being occurred.

You need to understand as a citizen and as a tax payer and as a voter what's really behind the arguments.

You understand the health benefits that the activity can bring.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

VERB

理解；明白；听懂

If you understand someone or understand what they are saying, you know what they mean.

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VERB

懂（某种语言）

If you understand a language, you know what someone is saying when they are speaking that language.

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VERB

理解（某人）

To understand someone means to know how they feel and why they behave in the way that they do.

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VERB

知道，明白，了解（所发生的事及其原因）

You say that you understand something when you know why or how it happens.

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VERB

听说；获悉；了解

If you understand that something is the case, you think it is true because you have heard or read that it is. You can say that something is understood to be the case to mean that people generally think it is true.

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PHRASE

获悉，间接得知

If someone is given to understand that something is the case, it is communicated to them that it is the case, usually without them being told directly.

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CONVENTION

明白吗？懂了没有？

You can use understand in expressions like do you understand? or is that understood? after you have told someone what you want, to make sure that they have understood you and will obey you.

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英汉词典释义

vt. & vi.

懂; 理解; 领会

vt.

听说, 获悉; 知道, 认为

了解；认识到；明了

了解；谅解；体谅

默认；默许；不言而喻

领会；清楚；推断出

英英词典释义

Verb

1. know and comprehend the nature or meaning of;

2. perceive (an idea or situation) mentally;

3. make sense of a language;

4. believe to be the case;

5. be understanding of;