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construe

/verb kuhn-stroo; noun kon-stroo/US // verb kənˈstru; noun ˈkɒn stru //UK // (kənˈstruː) //

解释,解释为,解释一下,理解

Related Words

translate译文,译出,译者注,译成中文infer推论,推断,推断出,推论出interpret解释,解读,翻译,诠释define定义,界定,确定parse解析,剖析,分析expound阐释,阐述,阐发,阐明render渲染,呈现,渲染器,渲染的read阅读,读,读取,看explicate解说,解读,阐释,解说词understand了解,理解,明白,懂得take采纳,采纳了decipher解读,破解,破译,解解读analyze剖析,分析,剖析一下,分析一下spell out拼出,吐出,拼出了

Definitions

v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    con·strued, con·stru·ing.

    • : to give the meaning or intention of; explain; interpret.
    • : to deduce by inference or interpretation; infer: He construed her intentions from her gestures.
    • : to translate, especially orally.
    • : to analyze the syntax of; to rehearse the applicable grammatical rules of: to construe a sentence.
    • : to arrange or combine syntactically.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    con·strued, con·stru·ing.

    • : to admit of grammatical analysis or interpretation.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of construing.
    • : something that is construed.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbdeduce; explain
Forms: construed
Synonyms
define定义,界定,确定infer推论,推断,推断出,推论出interpret解释,解读,翻译,诠释parse解析,剖析,分析translate译文,译出,译者注,译成中文analyze剖析,分析,剖析一下,分析一下decipher解读,破解,破译,解解读explicate解说,解读,阐释,解说词expound阐释,阐述,阐发,阐明read阅读,读,读取,看render渲染,呈现,渲染器,渲染的take采纳,采纳了understand了解,理解,明白,懂得figure it to be算是,算是吧,猜想one's best guessspell out拼出,吐出,拼出了

Examples

  • At one of his rallies, Kivalov reportedly gave out packages with food items and money, which investigators construe to be bribes.

  • Can any of your readers tell me whence comes the following Sotadic Elegiac poem, and construe it for me?

  • I would not appear to dictate, but do you not fear Mr. Purcell may construe your non-attendance into disrespect to himself?

  • Read over the Ovid to Jefferson, and construe about ten lines more.

  • After dinner construe Ovid (100 lines); finish second book of Spenser, and read two cantos of the third.

  • Some refer to Minerva, and construe the passage with reference to the Panathenaic celebration.

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