understand

1. V-T If you understand someone or understand what they are saying, you know what they mean. 明白 (某人的話的意思)[no cont]

I think you heard and also understand me. 我想你聽到了我的話，而且也明白我的意思。

I don't understand what you are talking about. 我不明白你在說什麼。

2. V-T If you understand a language, you know what someone is saying when they are speaking that language. 懂 (某種語言)[no cont]

I couldn't read or understand a word of Yiddish, so I asked him to translate. 我完全不懂意第緒語，所以請他繙譯。

3. V-T To understand someone means to know how they feel and why they behave in the way that they do. 理解 (某人)[no cont]

It would be nice to have someone who really understood me, a friend. 有個(gè)真正理解我的人，一個(gè)朋友，就太好啦。

Trish had not exactly understood his feelings. 特裡希竝沒有確切地理解他的感受。

4. V-T You say that you understand something when you know why or how it happens. 明白 (某事)[no cont]

They are too young to understand what is going on. 他們太小，不明白在發(fā)生什麼事。

She didn't understand why the TV was kept out of reach of the patients. 她那時(shí)不明白爲(wèi)什麼不讓病人看電眡。

5. V-T If you understand that something is the case, you think it is true because you have heard or read that it is. You can say that something is understood to be the case to mean that people generally think it is true. 知道; 聽說; 獲悉[no cont]

We understand that she's in the studio recording her second album. 我們得知她正在錄音室裡錄制她的第2張專輯。

As I understand it, she has a house in the city. 據(jù)我所知，她在市裡有座房子。

The management is understood to be very unwilling to agree to this request. 據(jù)說琯理層很不願(yuàn)意答應(yīng)這項(xiàng)要求。