Understanding

(noun.) the cognitive condition of someone who understands; 'he has virtually no understanding of social cause and effect'.

(adj.) characterized by understanding based on comprehension and discernment and empathy; 'an understanding friend' .

哈利整理

• The understanding of the place of theory in life is a comparatively new one. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• You know, I'm a stranger here, so perhaps I'm not so quick at understanding what you mean as if I'd lived all my life at Milton. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• It, too, demands understanding and direction. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• It's because he has some understanding of a woman, because he is not stupid. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• Why any burglar should take such a thing passes my understanding, for it was only a plaster cast and of no real value whatever. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• But all power of a high order depends on an understanding of the essential character, or law, of heat, light, sound, gravity, and the like. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• He was a great genius, and a noble character, yet hardly capable of feeling or understanding anything external to his own theology. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Then there WAS an understanding between him and Clym's wife when he made a fool of Thomasin! 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Then, her understanding was beyond every suspicion, quick and clear; and her manners were the mirror of her own modest and elegant mind. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• And there could be no obligation, because there is no standard for action there, because no understanding has been reaped from that plane. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• When I missed understanding a word, there was no time to think what it was, so I made an illegible one to fill in, trusting to the printers to sense it. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• She is not a clever girl, but she has better sense than you are aware of, and does not deserve to have her understanding spoken of so slightingly. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• His understanding and tastes are so superior, it does a man good to be within their influence; and as to his temper and nature, I call them fine. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The Commissioners had a good deal of sympathy for the prostitute's condition, but for that lust in the hearts of men, and women we may add, for that, they had no sympathetic understanding. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Third, there can be no leagues or alliances or special covenants and understandings within the general and common family of the League of Nations. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The understandings of those who are engaged in such employments, can seldom grow torpid for want of exercise. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• But the understandings of the greater part of men are necessarily formed by their ordinary employments. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.

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