fathom 的 2 个定义
plural fath·oms, fath·om.
- a unit of length equal to six feet: used chiefly in nautical measurements. Abbreviation: fath
- to measure the depth of by means of a sounding line; sound.
- to penetrate to the truth of; comprehend; understand: to fathom someone's motives.
fathom 近义词
discern, understand
更多fathom例句
- Perhaps, instead, they had reached a desperation we can't quite fathom.
- The celebrity of Li is hard to fathom in terms that American fans—tennis savvy or not—can fully comprehend.
- As a powerful woman she presents problems for men trying to fathom her.
- Now, my daughter is older and I can barely fathom that she is a teenager.
- Now another monologue, also spoken by a woman who has experienced more than most can fathom, has left me entranced and devastated.
- There were to be many things yet which Felipe could not fathom in this lovely, sorrowing, sunny sister of his.
- This is some passing whim of your wife, due to some cause or causes which you and I needn't try to fathom.
- There is no protection there for the ships against submarines except Enos harbour and Enos is only one fathom deep.
- From the portress Cibot to the Marquise d'Espard, not one of his women has an evil thought that he does not fathom.
- Maud Barrington's eyes were grateful, but there was something that Winston could not fathom behind her smile.