understanding

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ʌndəˈstandɪŋ/    美 /ˌʌndɚˈstændɪŋ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act of one that understands or comprehends; the mental process of discernment of meaning. uncountable,with-of
    — There are certain things that defy human understanding.
  2. Reason or intelligence; ability to grasp the full meaning of knowledge; ability to infer. countable,with-of
    — She has a solid understanding of particle physics.
  3. Opinion, judgement, or outlook. countable,with-of
    — It is the goneness of the Holocaust that produces the simultaneous profusion of discourses and understandings; the goneness is what opens up, what spurs, what unleashes the perpetual desire to do, to make, to rethink the Holocaust.
  4. An agreement of minds; harmony; something mutually understood or agreed upon.; An informal contract; a mutual agreement. countable,uncountable,with-of
    — I thought we had an understanding - you do the dishes, and I throw the trash.
  5. An agreement of minds; harmony; something mutually understood or agreed upon.; A reconciliation of differences. countable,uncountable,with-of
    — The parties of the negotiation have managed to come to an understanding.
  6. Sympathy. uncountable,with-of
    — He showed much understanding for my problems when he heard about my past.
动词 v.
  1. present participle and gerund of understand form-of,gerund,participle,present
    — It is tempting to speculate about the incentives or compulsions that might explain why anyone would take to the skies in [the] basket [of a balloon]: […]; […]; or perhaps to muse on the irrelevance of the borders that separate nation states and keep people from understanding their shared environment.
形容词 adj.
  1. Showing compassion, tolerance, and forbearance; sympathetically aware.
  2. Knowing; skilful. dated

词形变化

understandings plural more understanding comparative most understanding superlative

词汇关系

衍生词
according to one's understanding innerstanding memorandum of understanding mutual understanding natural language understanding peace that passeth understanding
相关词
intellection innerstanding overstand

词源

词源 1
From Middle English understandinge, understondinge, from Old English understanding (“intelligence, understanding”), from Proto-West Germanic *undarstandingu, from Proto-Germanic *understandingō, equivalent to understand + -ing (gerund ending). Cognate with Middle Dutch onderstaninge, Middle Low German understandinge, Middle High German understandunge.
词源 2
From Middle English understandyng, understondynge, understondinde, undirstondend, understandande, from Old English understandende, from Proto-West Germanic *undarstandandī, from Proto-Germanic *understandandz, present participle of Proto-Germanic *understandaną (“to stand between, intercede, understand”), equivalent to understand + -ing (present participle ending).
0 次浏览 数据来源: Wiktionary