understand

英式音标：[ˌʌndəˈstænd]

美式音标：[ˌʌndərˈstænd]

词语分类：CET4,TEM4,考研,CET6

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概况：

vt. 理解；懂；获悉；推断；省略

vi. 理解；懂得；熟悉

词义：

vt.& vi.

懂，理解；

vt.

了解；默认；听说；领会

变形

过去式：understood过去分词：understood现在分词：understanding第三人称单数：understands

双语释义

v.(动词)

vt. & vi. 懂; 理解 grasp the meaning of (words, a language, a person, etc.)

vt. & vi. 听说,获悉 have been informed; find out (a fact)

英英释义

understand[ ,ʌndə'stænd ]

v.

know and comprehend the nature or meaning of

"She did not understand her husband"; "I understand what she means"

perceive (an idea or situation) mentally

"I don't understand the idea"

同义词：realizerealisesee

make sense of a language

"She understands French"

同义词：readinterprettranslate

believe to be the case

"I understand you have no previous experience?"

同义词：infer

be understanding of

"You don't need to explain--I understand!"

同义词：sympathizesympathiseempathizeempathise

用法：

词汇搭配

用作动词 (v.)

～+名词

understand English懂英语

understand finance熟知财政

understand sb's attitude理解某人的态度

understand sb's explanation理解某人的解释

understand sb's feeling理解某人的心情

understand the importance of懂得…的重要性

understand the meaning of理会…的意思

understand the seriousness of懂得…的严重性

understand the significance of懂得…的意义

understand the situation理解局势

understand the truth明白真相

～+副词

understand wrong误解

understand accurately精确地理解

understand assuredly自信地理解

understand clearly清楚地懂得

understand cleverly聪明地理解

understand distinctly清晰地理解

understand easily容易理解

understand eventually最终理解

understand exceptionally特别理解

understand expressly快速地理解

understand fully充分理解

understand intimately精通地理解

understand keenly聪明地理解

understand literally字面上地理解

understand perfectly完全理解

understand properly恰当地理解

understand shrewdly精明地理解

understand subtly细微地理解

understand sympathetically同情地理解

understand tacitly心照不宣地理解

understand theoretically从理论上理解

understand thoroughly透彻地理解

understand vaguely模糊地理解

～+介词

understand as把…理解为…

understand sb's suggestion as a complaint把某人的建议理解为发牢骚

understand from从…获悉

词组短语

do you understand你能理解吗？

come to understand开始明白；开始了解

同近义词辨析

understand, recognize, perceive, learn, comprehension

understand理解

recognize认出，认得

perceive察觉，理解

learn学会

comprehension理解

grasp, appreciate, understand, comprehend, apprehend

这组词都有“理解”的意思，其区别是：

grasp从本义抓紧、抓住，引申作“理解、掌握”。

appreciate语气较弱，指对某事物或意义有充分的理解。着重有能力领域或觉察。

understand一般用词，很常用，指对事实或意义不仅知道得很清楚。

comprehend较正式用词，指对较复杂的事物能透彻理解其意义。

apprehend指知道某事物或某观念的大概意义，但未能理解其内涵意义，暗含一知半解意味。

understand, learn, comprehend, know

这组词都有“懂，知道，明了”的意思，其区别是：

understand指对事物已有彻底的认识，不仅知其性质、含义和细节，而且了解其内外的关系。

learn通常指通过他人而获得消息或情况，侧重从不知到知的变化过程。

comprehend侧重熟悉了解的过程。

know普通用词，多指通过学习、经验或他人传播而得到知识，含直接知道的意味。

双语例句

用作动词(v.)

He is trying his best to understand his meaning.
他正在尽力弄明白他的意思。

I don't understand what you're talking about.
我不明白你在说什么。

If you can't do it, I will understand.
如果你不会做这件事的话，我可以理解。

I don't fully understand his reasons for leaving.
我不完全理解他离开的理由。

You must understand the gravity of the situation.
你必须认识到局势的严重性。

I understand that you will be moving here soon.
我听说你就要搬到这儿来住了。

I understand that you are now married.
我听说你现在已结婚了。

We understand your corporation handles foodstuffs for export.
我们获悉你公司经营食品出口。

权威例句

You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation, by Deborah Tannen

Do 15-Month-Old Infants Understand False Beliefs?

“We should understand something before we can use the new language.” : adult learners' perspectives on multilingualism in Finnish ...

The Five Factor Model and impulsivity: using a structural model of personality to understand impulsivity

Those Who Understand: Knowledge Growth in Teaching

Those Who Understand: KNowlegde Growth in Teaching

1986_Those Who Understand - Knoweldge Growth in Teaching

Those who understand: knowdge growth in teaching

Those Who Understand: A Conception of Teacher Knowledge.

Teachers' Beliefs and Educational Research: Cleaning up a Messy Construct

同义词：speculate,seize,see,read,omit,miss out,learn of,know,infer,get familiar with,foreshorten,forejudge,extrapolate,elide,deduce from,deduce,cotton on,conclude,be familiar with,be at home in,absorb

同根词：understood,understanding,understandably,understandable,understandability,understand

英语词源：

understand

understand: [OE] The compound verb understand was formed in the centuries immediately preceding the Anglo-Saxon invasions of Britain. It is composed, of course, of under and stand, and the semantic link between ‘standing under’ something and ‘knowing about’ it may be ‘being close to’ it.

understand (v.)

Old English understandan "comprehend, grasp the idea of," probably literally "stand in the midst of," from under + standan "to stand" (see stand (v.)). If this is the meaning, the under is not the usual word meaning "beneath," but from Old English under, from PIE *nter- "between, among" (cognates: Sanskrit antar "among, between," Latin inter "between, among," Greek entera "intestines;" see inter-). Related: Understood; understanding. That is the suggestion in Barnhart, but other sources regard the "among, between, before, in the presence of" sense of Old English prefix and preposition under as other meanings of the same word. "Among" seems to be the sense in many Old English compounds that resemble understand, such as underniman "to receive," undersecan "examine, investigate, scrutinize" (literally "underseek"), underðencan "consider, change one's mind," underginnan "to begin." It also seems to be the sense still in expressions such as under such circumstances. Perhaps the ultimate sense is "be close to;" compare Greek epistamai "I know how, I know," literally "I stand upon." Similar formations are found in Old Frisian (understonda), Middle Danish (understande), while other Germanic languages use compounds meaning "stand before" (German verstehen, represented in Old English by forstanden "understand," also "oppose, withstand"). For this concept, most Indo-European languages use figurative extensions of compounds that literally mean "put together," or "separate," or "take, grasp" (see comprehend). Old English oferstandan, Middle English overstonden, literally "over-stand" seem to have been used only in literal senses. For "to stand under" in a physical sense, Old English had undergestandan.

造句：

1. Instead of software rejecting input, it must work harder to understand and reconcile confusing input.

软件不但不能拒绝输入，而且必须努力理解和调整输入造成的混乱。

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2. We understand metaphors intuitively, but what does that really mean?

我们凭直觉理解隐喻，但直觉真正的意思是什么？

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3. The result? A product that is easier to understand and more pleasurable to use.

如果说结果，那就是产品会更加容易理解，并且使用起来更愉悦。

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4. Rather than trying to understand behaviors and social rituals of an entire culture, the goal is to understand the behaviors and rituals of people interacting with individual products.

目标在于理解人们与个体产品交互时的行为和习惯，而不是理解整个文化的行为和社会礼仪。

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5. Users don’t understand Boolean logic.

用户不理解布尔逻辑。

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6. We understand that exploration involves inevitable forays into blind alleys and down dead ends.

我们知道，探索包括不可避免地遇到死胡同和封闭的峡谷。

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7. When interviewing customers, you will want to understand:

与顾客访谈时，你想了解如下问题。

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8. Rather than helping users understand where they are in the system, help them to understand where they are in their process.

与其让使用者知道自己在系统的什么位置，不如让他们知道自己在某个过程中的什么位置。

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9. We understand the idiom simply because we have learned it and because it is distinctive, not because we understand it or because it makes subliminal connections in our minds.

我们明白习惯用语的意思只是因为已经学过，它很独特。 而不是因为我们理解它的字面意思，或者头脑中下意识地联想到什么。

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10. To better understand user motivations, you can employ attitude-oriented questions:

为了更好地理解用户的动机，你可以使用一些面向态度的问题。

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