understands
基本解释
- v.懂得；明白；理解；认识到；听说；获悉
词源解说
- 直接源自古英语的understandan，意为理解、领悟。
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用法辨析
- understand的基本意思是“懂,理解”,可指理解某人或某事,也可指认为或以为某人或某事是什么。可用作不及物动词,也可用作及物动词。用作及物动词时,可接名词、代词、动名词、带疑问词的动词不定式、that从句及疑问词从句作宾语,还可接以“to be+ n./adj. ”或动词不定式充当补足语的复合宾语。understand接动名词作宾语时,该宾语常可带名词或代词的属格或宾格表示其逻辑主体。
- I understand作“听说,获悉”解时,指从获得的情报、消息、情况等中得出结论、推测,一般用于比较正式的场合,可用作不及物动词,也可用作及物动词。用作及物动词时,主要接that从句作宾语,还可接以动词不定式充当补足语的复合宾语。
- understand作“听说,获悉”解时,还可用于插入语中。
- understand是表示心理或感情状态的动词,一般不用于进行体,也不用于现完成时,偶尔可用于进行体表示“开始懂得”。
v. (动词)
英汉例句
- I didn't understand.
我不懂。 - My wife doesn't understand me.
我的妻子不理解我。 - Do you understand what to do next?
你们知道下一步该做什么吗? - I can't understand neglecting children like that.
对孩子这样毫不经意,我不能理解。 - Little by little you'll understand that you've taken the wrong road.
你渐渐会明白你走错了道路。 - You don't understand what a difficult position I'm in.
你不了解我的处境是多么困难。 - I understand him to be a distant relation.
我知道他是一位远亲。 - I understood him to say that he wouldn't be able to come.
我听他说过他不能来。 - He is,I understand, no longer here.
据说,他离开这里了。
用作动词 (v.)
用作不及物动词: S+～(+A)
用作及物动词: S+～+ n./pron.
S+～+wh-to- v
S+～+(sb's/sb) v -ing
S+～+that-clause
S+～+wh-clause
用作宾补动词: S+～+ n./pron. +to be n./adj
S+～+ n./pron. +to- v
其他: as Parenth.
词组短语
- understand English 懂英语
- understand finance 熟知财政
- understand sb 's suggestion as a complaint 把某人的建议理解为发牢骚
- understand the importance of 懂得…的重要性
- understand the meaning of 理会…的意思