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understanding

/uhn-der-stan-ding/US // ˌʌn dərˈstæn dɪŋ //UK // (ˌʌndəˈstændɪŋ) //

理解,了解,理解力,了解情况

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : mental process of a person who comprehends; comprehension; personal interpretation: My understanding of the word does not agree with yours.
    • : intellectual faculties; intelligence; mind: a quick understanding.
    • : superior power of discernment; enlightened intelligence: With her keen understanding she should have become a leader.
    • : knowledge of or familiarity with a particular thing; skill in dealing with or handling something: an understanding of accounting practice.
    • : a state of cooperative or mutually tolerant relations between people: To him, understanding and goodwill were the supreme virtues.
    • : a mutual agreement, especially of a private, unannounced, or tacit kind: They had an understanding about who would do the dishes.
    • : an agreement regulating joint activity or settling differences, often informal or preliminary in character: After hours of negotiation, no understanding on a new contract was reached.
    • : Philosophy. the power of abstract thought; logical power.Kantianism.the mental faculty resolving the sensory manifold into the transcendental unity of apperception.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : characterized by understanding; prompted by, based on, or demonstrating comprehension, intelligence, discernment, empathy, or the like: an understanding attitude.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nouncomprehension, appreciation

Examples

  • People get an approximate social understanding and that seems to work pretty well.

  • Jalisa Washington-Price, vice president, political and advocacy, iHeartMediaJane Mayer’s book gave me a deep understanding about the problem I wanted to fix.

  • Then, follow-up with why you grouped the ones that set off the same search results and are part of the same topic, for more understanding.

  • Although he wasn’t working for the co-op at that time, Miltenberger said, it is his understanding that the hospital wanted to help keep competition in that marketplace.

  • The goal is to develop a deeper understanding of how different approaches work or fall short.

  • Nothing made Groucho funnier than having this Margaret Dumont around not understanding the jokes.

  • Understanding my own dreams had a lot to do with getting me off the juice.

  • As she discussed her understanding of the voting rights campaign and how she planned to recreate it, I grew more relieved.

  • My understanding was that according to most Christian beliefs, being trans or gay was a sin, cut and dry.

  • Now half-awake, we need all the help we can get in understanding our situation.

  • I would ask you to imagine it translated into every language, a common material of understanding throughout all the world.

  • Our social life is aimless without it, we are a crowd without a common understanding.

  • The hopes of a man that is void of understanding are vain and deceitful: and dreams lift up fools.

  • The friars were exceedingly wroth, and combined to defeat the Generalʼs efforts to come to an understanding with the rebels.

  • The two enjoyed a mutual understanding from which he was excluded, a private intimacy that was spiritual, mental,— physical.