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词汇 understand-to-mean
释义

understand someone/something to mean something


phrase
to think, especially wrongly, that someone means or something is about a particular thing:
When he said three o'clock, I understood him to mean in the afternoon.他说3点钟时,我误解为是下午。
I agree that she was unkind, which is what I understood you to mean.
She talked about food from a cow, and by that I understood her to mean beef, not milk.
When he talked about his house, I understood him to mean the one in London.
She talks about her religious life, by which I understand her to mean her ideas about reincarnation, not her Judaism.
The book was advertised as being about the war, which I understood to mean the Second World War, not the First World War.
See also
understand(KNOW)
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