comprehending
理解,理解力,领悟,领会
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Definitions
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- : to understand the nature or meaning of; grasp with the mind; perceive: He did not comprehend the significance of the ambassador's remark.
- : to take in or embrace; include; comprise: The course will comprehend all facets of Japanese culture.
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Examples
Without comprehending the cause, their children detect the electricity in the air of their troubled home.
The child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books, a mysterious order, which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects.
Likewise, historians have assumed that only a select few scientists and mathematicians were able to comprehend the highly technical book, which introduced game-changing physics concepts such as the universal law of gravitation.
Now I can fully comprehend the power that the president and people in congressional positions have over the citizens of the United States.
A great many people imagine that if we understand physics well enough, we will eventually comprehend what life is as a physical phenomenon in the same way we now understand how and why water freezes or boils.
Westerners can have difficulty comprehending a public figure so intensely private.
I'm okay with people not comprehending or appreciating every single thing we did.
Presented with victimized men, justices had a way of suddenly comprehending the perniciousness of sexism.
Of course, he couldn't think of telling Mrs. Pontellier all about it, she being a woman and not comprehending such things.
Arnold looked at her for a single comprehending instant, a pitying instant, then his lips compressed tightly as he turned away.
Resistance to it was almost universal, comprehending both Catholics and Protestants.